Tennis - The Independent Florida Alligator

The Gators are 8-0 in SEC play this season, their best start since 2005 when they began 11-0 and won the SEC regular-season championship.

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Gators extend winning streak to 10 with win over LSU

By Noah Ram | Mar. 29, 2019

The mood in the locker room after Florida’s match against LSU was mixed, feeling excited while also feeling relief.

Senior Johannes Ingildsen picked up his 100th win for Florida against USF on Sunday. The Copenhagen, Denmark native now ranks eighth in singles victory at UF.

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Gators host weekend matches against LSU and Texas A&M

By Noah Ram | Mar. 29, 2019

The Florida men’s tennis team can get one step closer to clinching the SEC regular-season title this weekend.

UF women's tennis coach Roland Thornqvist said the team is continuing to improve. “I thought at the beginning of this season with the youth we have and the first time in this league that we were going to have a lot of growing pains, " he said. ". . . but it's getting better and that was our message in the (locker room).”

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Florida prepares for final road-stretch against LSU and Texas A&M

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 29, 2019

The Gators women’s tennis team is amid one of its worst seasons in program history.

Victoria Emma (pictured) fell to Vanderbilt’s Georgia Drummy 6-0, 6-3 on Sunday in Florida’s 4-3 loss to the Commodores.

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UF comeback against Vanderbilt falls short

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 24, 2019

Freshman Sydney Berlin was in a familiar position.

Victoria Emma claimed Florida's third point of the match in Sunday's 4-2 upset win over No. 16 Tennessee.

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Kentucky hands Gators seventh loss of season

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 23, 2019

The Florida Gators women’s tennis team entered Lexington, Kentucky, with just two losses to the Wildcats in program history.

The Gators women's tennis team enters Friday's matchup against Kentucky with three ranked singles players.

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Kessler finds rhythm as UF prepares for Kentucky

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 21, 2019

McCartney Kessler struggled to find her game early this season.

Sophomore No. 29 Andy Andrade is one of Florida's four ranked singles players.

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Gators down Illinois for seventh-straight win

By Noah Ram | Mar. 21, 2019

Johannes Ingildsen didn’t do any kind of crazy celebration when he clinched the match.

The Gators' men's tennis team topped Georgia 5-2. Sophomore Andy Andrade (pictured) clinched the match with a three-set win over Georgia's No. 10 Jan Zielinski.

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Gators host pair of top 30 opponents this week

By Noah Ram | Mar. 19, 2019

The Gators men’s tennis team is about to face arguably its toughest remaining regular-season test.

Oliver Crawford is coming off a match in which he beat the No. 2 player in the country in Wake Forest's Petros Chrysochos.

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UF sweeps weekend with win over Tennessee

By Noah Ram | Mar. 17, 2019

The No. 8 Gators men’s tennis team did something on Sunday it hadn’t done in nine years: Start SEC play 5-0.

Victoria Emma (pitcured) and her doubles partner McCartney Kessler have won in doubles in four straight matches.

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Florida upsets Tennessee in Gainesville

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 17, 2019

Victoria Emma was getting frustrated.

Sophomore Andy Andrade earned a 6-4, 6-0 singles victory in the Gators' win over Arkansas.

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Gators improve to 4-0 in SEC play, beat Georgia

By Noah Ram | Mar. 16, 2019

The Gators men’s tennis team made it to five in a row.

UF coach Roland Thornqvist was pleased with how freshman Marlee Zein played in Las Vegas. “She played really well from both a physical and a mental perspective,” he said.

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Georgia depth too much to handle, Gators fall 4-1

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 15, 2019

“Georgia Bulldogs” chants resonated through the Ring Tennis Complex as Meg Kowalski claimed the Bulldogs 12th-consecutive victory.

The sophomore tandem of Victoria Emma (pictured) and McCartney Kessler defeated No. 65 Mackenzy Middlebrooks and Ellie Wright 6-4 in the Gators win on Sunday.

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Florida prepares to host second-ranked Georgia

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 14, 2019

Just 11 days ago, Florida’s women’s tennis team was in bad shape.

Oliver Crawford clinched the Florida men’s tennis team’s 4-3 upset win over Wake Forest last season. The No. 8 Gators face the No. 2 Demon Deacons Wednesday at 5 p.m.

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Florida travels to Georgia and Tennessee for weekend matches

By Noah Ram | Mar. 14, 2019

The Gators men’s tennis team is ready to hit the road again.

Senior McClain Kessler fell in the second round of singles play at the ITA All-American Championships as well as in the second round of doubles play with partner Sam Riffice.

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Gators upset defending champion Wake Forest

By Noah Ram | Mar. 13, 2019

The crowd was ready for it.

Sophomore Oliver Crawford is undefeated in doubles play and has just one singles loss this year.

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Florida hosts defending champions Demon Deacons

By Noah Ram | Mar. 12, 2019

Then-freshman Oliver Crawford clinched the Florida men’s tennis team’s 4-3 upset win over then-No. 1 Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last season.

Sophomore Victoria Emma won her singles match, but she and McCartney Kessler lost their third consecutive doubles match as a pair. The Gators women’s tennis team fell 4-3 to the No. 30 Knights on Sunday night.

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Florida tames Tigers in 4-1 win

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 10, 2019

Tsveta Dimitrova clinched her fist and casually strolled toward her opponent as Taylor Gruber’s shot collided with the net. Dimitrova claimed her fifth singles victory and the Florida women’s tennis team’s second-consecutive road win over a top-50 team.

UF men’s tennis player Johannes Ingildsen won his match against UCF’s Trey Hilderbrand 6-4, 7-5 on Friday night.

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UF improves to 3-0 in SEC play

By Noah Ram | Mar. 10, 2019

The No. 9 Florida men’s tennis team knew that this match would be different.

UF women's tennis coach Roland Thornqvist said he was pleased after the Gators defeated Ole Miss 4-1 on Friday to open SEC play.

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Florida comeback stifles Hogs en route to Thornqvist’s 500th victory

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 9, 2019

Marlee Zein finished off Jackie Carr in the fourth hour of Florida’s marathon match, clinching the decisive third set and the Gators’ first SEC victory on the road.

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Gators pick up another SEC win over Ole Miss

By Noah Ram | Mar. 9, 2019

The Gators men’s tennis team had been waiting for this.