Gators look forward to home matches after brutal road trip
By JOSEPH R. HOLZER | Feb. 18, 2009There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
It took until the third match of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Championships for the UF men's team to face the inevitable Southeastern Conference matchup.
Coming off its first loss of the season, the No. 7 UF men's tennis team will play in the first round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Championships on Friday.
For the UF men's tennis team, the first taste of indoors was bittersweet.
On its way to Chicago, the UF men's tennis team will make a pit stop in Champaign, Ill., for its first taste of indoor dual match play this season.
In professional wrestling there are 60-minute, falls-count-anywhere "ironman" bouts in which will and determination are tested.
In its last home dual match before heading north for indoor play, the UF men's tennis team improved to 5-0 on Thursday.
Within one week, the UF men's tennis team took down three top-50 opponents. And they did it rather handily.
In doubles action, they are dominant. In singles competition, they are stellar.
The first round was for the first-year players.
Tension was high, but Texas A&M's ever-present twelfth man wasn't able to save them on Saturday.
It's often said the opponent you don't know is the most dangerous.
The UF women's tennis doubles teams had a whole lot of love for Stetson.
The UF women's tennis team is set on keeping its 23-match win streak against in-state opponents alive as it takes the Linder Stadium courts at 3 this afternoon against Stetson.
In its second match of the season, the UF men's tennis team knocked off a top-10 team.
The UF men's tennis team opens its season today, on the heels of the Australian Open kicking off Down Under, when they host Furman at 3 p.m.
This weekend's preseason tournament provided experience for a young UF men's tennis team.
A pair of UF women's tennis players will visit Sin City today with an ace or two in mind.
Joanna Mather finished her first fall at UF with a win against Carolina Escamilla of Kentucky 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in the finals of the SEC Fall Coaches Classic.
Marrit Boonstra is new to the ITA Grand Slam, but she's made herself right at home.