Friday, April 6
College Station, TX
7 PM
Florida Gators
at
Texas A&M
Junior Alfredo Perez
Another top 10 match up for No. 9 Florida against No. 5 Texas A&M Friday
Thursday, April 5, 2018 | Men's Tennis
Match 21
No. 9 Florida at No. 5 Texas A&M
Friday, April 6 | 7 p.m. (ET)
College Station, Texas | Mitchell Tennis Center
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The ninth-ranked Florida men's tennis team has one last regular season road trip this weekend. The Gators will be in College Station, Texas Friday to take on NO. 5 Texas A&M at 7 p.m. (ET). This will be Florida's second straight weekend against a top 5 team.
Gator Notes
• Florida enters the match with a record of 13-7 overall and 7-2 in the SEC
• This will be the Gators second straight week facing a top 5 opponent. They defeated No. 1 Wake forest last Friday
• Florida is ranked ninth in the ITA Rankings
• When the Gators play on the road this season they are 4-3
• Against teams ranked in the ITA top 25, they are 7-4 this season and 1-1 against top 5 opponents
• Freshman Oliver Crawford has won 12 consecutive singles matches and is undefeated in SEC singles (9-0) and doubles (6-0)
• Chase Perez-Blanco and Crawford have won four straight doubles matches
• Perez-Blanco has 89 career singles win and is five away from ninth on the all-time list. He also has 176 career wins in both singles and doubles. Last weekend he moved into a tie for eighth on the all-time list with Nathan Overholser (1998-01). Perez-Blanco is five total wins away from moving into a tie for sixth with Elliott Orkin (2014-17) and Greg Ouellette (2005-08)
• On the year Florida is 12-1 when winning the doubles point
• Florida has found an abundance of success this season on courts three, five and six. The Gators are 13-5 on court three and 12-6 on courts five and six
• Against doubles pairs that are ranked nationally Florida is 7-3
• Duarte Vale is one doubles win away from 20 in his career
• Head Coach Bryan Shelton is one win away from 100 wins at Florida
Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 9th
Singles
No. 9 – Alfredo Perez [8]
No. 16 – Johannes Ingildsen [11]
No. 31 – Oliver Crawford [51]
No. 94 – Duarte Vale [87]
Doubles
No. 5 – Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen [1]
No. 12 – Chase Perez-Blanco and Oliver Crawford [10]
No. 44 – Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler [12]
No. 39 – Andy Andrade and Perez-Blanco [33]
No. 77 – Alfredo Perez and Duarte Vale [UR]
Numbers in the [ ] represent their previous ranking from March 20
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly
History vs Texas A&M
• Florida trails in the all-time series 4-8
• The two teams met earlier this season in the Seattle, WA at the ITA Indoor Championship with Texas A&M winning 4-0
• Florida has lost two straight to Texas A&M
• The Gators last win over Texas A&M came in the 2016 SEC Tournament Semifinals, a match the Gators won 4-0
• Florida is 0-4 all-time when playing A&M in College Station
Scouting Texas A&M
• Texas A&M enters the match with a 16-4 overall record and an 8-0 record in the SEC
• A&M is tied with Mississippi State for the top spot in the SEC standings
• Texas A&M is on a four match win streak. Their last loss was a 4-3 defeat at the hands of TCU in College Station
• A&M has five ranked singles athletes: Arthur Rinderknech (10), Patrick Kypson (12), Valentin Vacherot (52), Jordi Arconada (73) and Juan Carlos Aguilar (109)
• A&M has four ranked doubles pairs: Aguilar/Arconada (13), Arconada/Kevin Lam (50), Rinderknech/Kypson (58) and AJ Catanzariti/Vacherot (65)
• Against nationally ranked singles opponents A&M is 34-19. Against nationally ranked doubles teams they are 9-7
• Texas A&M has only lost three matches this season at No. 5 singles
• In SEC matches the Aggies are 34-10 in singles matches
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No. 9 Florida at No. 5 Texas A&M
Friday, April 6 | 7 p.m. (ET)
College Station, Texas | Mitchell Tennis Center
Watch Live | Live Stats | Twitter | Match Notes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The ninth-ranked Florida men's tennis team has one last regular season road trip this weekend. The Gators will be in College Station, Texas Friday to take on NO. 5 Texas A&M at 7 p.m. (ET). This will be Florida's second straight weekend against a top 5 team.
Gator Notes
• Florida enters the match with a record of 13-7 overall and 7-2 in the SEC
• This will be the Gators second straight week facing a top 5 opponent. They defeated No. 1 Wake forest last Friday
• Florida is ranked ninth in the ITA Rankings
• When the Gators play on the road this season they are 4-3
• Against teams ranked in the ITA top 25, they are 7-4 this season and 1-1 against top 5 opponents
• Freshman Oliver Crawford has won 12 consecutive singles matches and is undefeated in SEC singles (9-0) and doubles (6-0)
• Chase Perez-Blanco and Crawford have won four straight doubles matches
• Perez-Blanco has 89 career singles win and is five away from ninth on the all-time list. He also has 176 career wins in both singles and doubles. Last weekend he moved into a tie for eighth on the all-time list with Nathan Overholser (1998-01). Perez-Blanco is five total wins away from moving into a tie for sixth with Elliott Orkin (2014-17) and Greg Ouellette (2005-08)
• On the year Florida is 12-1 when winning the doubles point
• Florida has found an abundance of success this season on courts three, five and six. The Gators are 13-5 on court three and 12-6 on courts five and six
• Against doubles pairs that are ranked nationally Florida is 7-3
• Duarte Vale is one doubles win away from 20 in his career
• Head Coach Bryan Shelton is one win away from 100 wins at Florida
Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 9th
Singles
No. 9 – Alfredo Perez [8]
No. 16 – Johannes Ingildsen [11]
No. 31 – Oliver Crawford [51]
No. 94 – Duarte Vale [87]
Doubles
No. 5 – Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen [1]
No. 12 – Chase Perez-Blanco and Oliver Crawford [10]
No. 44 – Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler [12]
No. 39 – Andy Andrade and Perez-Blanco [33]
No. 77 – Alfredo Perez and Duarte Vale [UR]
Numbers in the [ ] represent their previous ranking from March 20
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly
History vs Texas A&M
• Florida trails in the all-time series 4-8
• The two teams met earlier this season in the Seattle, WA at the ITA Indoor Championship with Texas A&M winning 4-0
• Florida has lost two straight to Texas A&M
• The Gators last win over Texas A&M came in the 2016 SEC Tournament Semifinals, a match the Gators won 4-0
• Florida is 0-4 all-time when playing A&M in College Station
Scouting Texas A&M
• Texas A&M enters the match with a 16-4 overall record and an 8-0 record in the SEC
• A&M is tied with Mississippi State for the top spot in the SEC standings
• Texas A&M is on a four match win streak. Their last loss was a 4-3 defeat at the hands of TCU in College Station
• A&M has five ranked singles athletes: Arthur Rinderknech (10), Patrick Kypson (12), Valentin Vacherot (52), Jordi Arconada (73) and Juan Carlos Aguilar (109)
• A&M has four ranked doubles pairs: Aguilar/Arconada (13), Arconada/Kevin Lam (50), Rinderknech/Kypson (58) and AJ Catanzariti/Vacherot (65)
• Against nationally ranked singles opponents A&M is 34-19. Against nationally ranked doubles teams they are 9-7
• Texas A&M has only lost three matches this season at No. 5 singles
• In SEC matches the Aggies are 34-10 in singles matches
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