It's almost poetic how the No. 15 women's tennis team will be facing a bitter rival in No. 2 Georgia in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tennis Championships on Friday. In a rubber match, no less.
A double fault.
Jo Mather had only enough time to give a fist pump before being swarmed by the rest of the No. 15 UF women's tennis team after a 4-2 win against Florida State.
Friday's dual match proved to be a warm-up for the No. 10 UF men's tennis team as it topped Marist and set up a rematch against heated in-state rival Miami.
The South Carolina women's tennis team has not defeated UF since before Cal Ripken Jr. began his record streak of 2,632 consecutive games. That was in 1982, the same year Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released and the computer was named Time Magazine's "Man of the Year."
The No. 16 UF women's tennis team closes a turbulent regular season against No. 20 South Carolina at 10 a.m. On Saturday.
How fitting for Sunday's dual match to have been decided in a third set on Court 1 between two of the best players in the nation.
Alabama knows how difficult it is to defeat the No. 21 UF women's tennis team. After all, the No. 26 Red Tide has lost all 34 meetings between the two, including Friday's 4-1 victory in favor of the Gators.
With everything it has endured this spring, there is one constant: The No. 21 UF women's tennis team wins at home. Every time.
In its final home match of the regular season, the No. 10 UF men's tennis team put on a clinic in its 7-0 sweep of Arkansas on Sunday.
In its second-to-last home match of the regular season, the No. 10 UF men's tennis team defeated LSU 5-2.
This weekend the No. 10 UF men's tennis team is hosting its last two home matches of the season beginning at 3 p.m. today against LSU.
The No. 14 Gators women's tennis team could open a kennel the way it's been taming Bulldogs in Southeastern Conference play.
It should be labeled "The Thriller at Linder."
How do you follow up a thrilling win against a highly ranked conference rival?
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Following its first road win of the spring, the No. 9 UF men's tennis team returns to Gainesville as the best in the state.
The UF men's tennis team will attempt to avenge two losses when it hits the Scott Speicher courts against FSU today.
UF's women's tennis team managed to win its last two matches with only five scholarship players, but was unable to pull out a third, as the Gators lost to Florida State, 5-2, on a windy Saturday at the Scott Speicher Tennis Center.
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