Florida Gators

Match 22
No. 9 Florida at LSU
Sunday, April 8 | 1 p.m. (ET)
Baton Rouge, La. | LSU Tennis Complex
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida and LSU will meet for the 57th time on Sunday when the two teams meet for the Gators final road match of the regular season. The match against the Tigers is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. eastern standard time and will take place at the LSU Tennis Complex.
 
Gator Notes
• Florida enters the match with a record of 13-8 overall and 7-3 in the SEC
• Florida is ranked ninth in the ITA Rankings
• When the Gators play on the road this season they are 4-4
• 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
• 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 LSU
• Florida leads the all-time series 28-27-1
• The Gators won last season's meeting by a score of 4-3
• Florida has won five straight in the series
• The last lost to LSU came back in 2013 when the Gators lost 4-2 in Gainesville
• Head coach Bryan Shelton is 5-1 all-time against LSU and 2-0 against the Tigers when the match is in Baton Rouge
 
Scouting LSU
• LSU enters the match with a record of 8-13 overall and 1-8 in the SEC
• LSU is co-coached by two Gator Greats in Andy Brandi and his son Chris Brandi
• Andy is responsible for building the Florida women's dynasty with National Championships in 1992, 1996 and 1998 as well as six indoor National Titles
• Chris was a doubles All-American in 2004 and an All-SEC performer in 2005
• LSU is a young team with only one senior. They have one freshman and three sophomores with two juniors
• LSU has been good at home with an 8-2 record while posting a 0-8 record on the road
• They are 0-3 this season against ranked opponents
• In the dual season, the Tigers are 41-51 in combined singles matches
• In combined doubles, they have a record of 22-14
• LSU is 8-8 at both No. 1 and No. 2 singles
• Against nationally ranked singles opponents LSU is 1-14
 
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