SINGLES BRACKET | DOUBLES BRACKET
LAKE NONA, Fla. – The NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships will feature five Gators and is slated to begin on Monday at the USTA National Campus.
The individual championships feature 64 of the top singles players as well as 32 of the nation's best doubles pairs in a single-elimination tournament setting to determine the nation's best.
Live stats will be available for all matches and
live video for matches not featured on the
Tennis Channel will be available.
Andy Andrade will kick the action off for Florida in the singles bracket at 11 a.m. against Felipe Sarrasague of Elon. The Gators' sophomore earned second-team All-SEC honors and is 8-1 in his last 10 completed matches. Andrade went 9-3 in SEC play and has a team-best 19 dual singles wins. He is also 5-5 against nationally ranked opponents.
Sarrasaque earned an at-large bid after being named the CAA Men's Tennis Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The senior is ranked No. 104 in the national polls and holds a 15-5 record this season.
Sophomore
Oliver Crawford earned an automatic All-American honor due to his top-8 seeding. He is set to take on UCLA's Govind Nanda at 4 p.m. and will play on courts 1-6. His match will be one of six matches featured on the Tennis Channel for the 4 p.m. time slot.
Crawford played all singles matches at the No. 1 position and holds a 16-8 record, including 12-7 over ranked individuals. The sophomore earned his second consecutive first-team All-SEC honor and was selected for the NCAA Singles Championship for the second year in a row. Crawford was also named the ITA National and Southeast Region Play to Watch.
His opponent, Nanda, got into the draw as a singles alternate. The freshman was a second-team All-Pac-12 honoree and posted a 17-5 dual singles record, including a 14-3 record at the No. 3 position.
Freshman
Sam Riffice will match up with Johannes Schretter of Baylor in the Tennis Channel's 5 p.m. time slot. The SEC Freshman of the Year and ITA Southeast Region Rookie of the Year, Riffice posted a perfect 10-0 record in conference singles play and a team-best 19 dual singles wins. Rotating between the No. 2 and 3 singles positions, the Orlando native is 8-5 against nationally ranked players.
Schretter, a senior, is 11-8 in dual singles and rotated between the No. 1 and 2 positions. In Florida's 4-0 win over Baylor in the NCAA team quarterfinals, Schretter matched up with Crawford at the No. 1 spot and the match went unfinished in the second set.
In the doubles draw, the 2018 All-American duo,
McClain Kessler and
Duarte Vale will meet Belmont's pair of Marko Ilic and Hendrik Inno. Doubles play is scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
Kessler and Vale advanced to the Elite 8 in last year's NCAA Doubles Championships, but haven't played together since March 31 against Texas A&M. In the beginning of the season, the pair went 8-8 in dual doubles, playing No. 1. The senior/sophomore duo is currently ranked No. 19 in the Oracle ITA doubles ranking.
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