Gators Men’s Tennis Fall 4-3 to UCF Knights in NCAA Second Round

Saturday, May 2

Lake Nona, Fla.

8:15 p.m.

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Tanapatt Nirundorn tossing the tennis ball in the air for his serve in doubles against UCF in NCAA Second Round.

Gators Men’s Tennis Fall 4-3 to UCF Knights in NCAA Second Round

Sunday, May 3, 2026 | Men's Tennis

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The Gators’ season comes to an end after a 4-3 loss to the UCF Knights in the NCAA Second Round.

By: Kendall Merriett

LAKE NONA, Fla. – The match was hard fought, but ultimately the Gators fell 4-3 to the UCF Knights in the NCAA Second Round. The team was just a court away from victory before their season came to an end.

Florida started strong by taking the doubles point with wins on courts one and two. Court two's Adhithya Ganesan and Pablo Perez Ramos took a dominant 6-1 win over Wissam Abderrahman and Mehdi Benchakroun to start things off. Henry Jefferson and Tanapatt Nirundorn secured the point with a 6-4 victory over Yassine Dlimi and Paul Colin on court one. Kevin Edengren and Andreas Timini's match on court three against Nicolas Oliveira and Luca Hotze went unfinished, but were up 5-4 before abandoning the match.

The Gators continued the momentum into singles, taking the first set on four courts and going into first set tiebreaks on the final two. Ramos finished his match with a dominant 6-2, 6-3 win over Mehdi Benchakroun on court four. Jeremy Jin followed closely with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Pedro Rodrigues on court three to put the Gators in position to clinch. Unfortunately, losses from Claverie on court two, Jefferson on court five and Edengren on court six put the Knights even with the Gators at three apiece. This brought everything down to Ganesan on court one. Ganesan took the first set over Yassine Dlimi at 6-4, but was forced to go to a third set after Dlimi took set two. The third set went to a tiebreak, but with some powerful serves Dlimi was able to take the match for the Knights with a final score of 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(7-4).

Season Notables

The team made ITA National Indoors for the first time in Head Coach Adam Steinberg's three seasons with the team, upsetting two ranked opponents to make the tournament.
The doubles duo of Tanapatt Nirundorn and Henry Jefferson became the team's first pair of All-Americans since 2023 after making the NCAA Doubles Tournament semifinals in the fall. The pair earned a career high ranking of No. 6 by the ITA to close out the fall season.
Nirundorn finished his Gator career with 77 wins in doubles, taking down eight ranked doubles pairings across the 2025-26 season.
Pablo Perez Ramos finished his one year as a Gator with an overall record of 24-6 and a dual record of 22-6, playing on courts two, three, four and five. He also tallied a career record of 103 wins in his five years of college tennis.
Kevin Edengren went 23-16 in singles and 16-11 in doubles this year. In the dual season, Edengren went 16-7 in singles, going 12-2 on court six for the Gators. In doubles, he held court three for a majority of the season with freshman Andreas Timini, with the pair going 13-6 in the dual season.
In the 31 matches the Gators played this season, the seniors Pablo Perez Ramos and Lorenzo Claverie are the only two Gators to play in every single match this dual season. Henry Jefferson was a close to joining them, only missing one match this season against North Carolina A&T. These three players covered everywhere from court one to five this season.

Match Results
Doubles

Court 1: No. 14 Henry Jefferson/Tanapatt Nirundorn (UF) def. Yassine Dlimi/Paul Colin (UCF) (6-4)
Court 2: Pablo Perez Ramos/Adhithya Ganesan (UF) def. Wissam Abderrahman/Mehdi Benchakroun (6-1)
Court 3: Kevin Edengren/Andreas Timini (UF) vs. Nicola Oliveira/Luca Hotze (UCF) (5-4 – UNFINISHED)

ORDER OF FINISH: 2, 1 (UNFINISHED – 1)
Singles

Court 1: No. 86 Yassine Dlimi (UCF) def. No. 107 Adhithya Ganesan (UF) (4-6, 6-4, 7-6(7-4))
Court 2: Wissam Abderrahman (UCF) def. Lorenzo Claverie (UF) (7-6(7-2), 6-4)
Court 3: No. 109 Jeremy Jin (UF) def. Pedro Rodrigues (UCF) (6-3, 6-1)
Court 4: No. 63 Pablo Perez Ramos (UF) def. Mehdi Benchakroun (UCF) (6-2, 6-3)
Court 5: Paul Colin (UCF) def. No. 75 Henry Jefferson (UF) (7-6 (8-6), 6-3)
Court 6: Clement Lemire (UCF) def. Kevin Edengren (UF) (3-6, 6-2, 6-2)