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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.

Freshman Andy Andrade accounted for the only point Florida could muster against No. 5 Texas A&M in Friday night's matchup.

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Gators get first SEC win in beat down of Arkansas

By Noah Ram | Mar. 4, 2019

The Gators men’s tennis team traveled to Arkansas on Sunday with one goal in mind: Continue the dominance.

Coach Roland Thornqvist's women's tennis team SEC play on Friday at 5 p.m. when it hosts Ole Miss at the Ring Tennis Complex.

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Florida dominates Rebels in SEC opener

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 1, 2019

Ida Jarlskog has been a dominant force for Florida this season.

UF women's tennis coach Roland Thornqvist: This year, we have five new players, and so it’s going to take time... If our leaders are two sophomores, no matter how tough and into it they are, they’re still learning.

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Gators enter SEC play on wrong side of history books

By Victor Prieto | Mar. 1, 2019

The Florida women’s tennis team has never had a losing record entering SEC play. Until now.

Sophomore Victoria Emma (pictured) and her doubles partner, junior Tsveta Dimitrova, lost narrowly (8-7) to the tournament's No. 1 seed of Southern California's Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes, eliminating them from the ITA All-American Championships. Emma later took victory in the tournament's singles back draw.

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Gators comeback falls short in Lake Nona against UCF

By Victor Prieto | Feb. 25, 2019

Anastasia Kharitonova hadn’t been in a situation like this before. She held a third-set lead on Sunday with the match on the line. The Moscow-product needed just one more game to seal the victory over UCF, but faltered and couldn’t hang on to complete Florida’s comeback.

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Florida defeats No. 28 Oklahoma at home

By Victor Prieto | Feb. 22, 2019

Ida Jarlskog frustrated her opponent all match long.

UF women's tennis coach Roland Thornqvist: I think we have a lot of talent. On some courts we have more talent than we know what to do with.

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Florida’s slow start won’t keep it down

By Victor Prieto | Feb. 22, 2019

The Florida women’s tennis team has endured a lot through five matches.

Florida coach Roland Thornqvist and the Gators are ranked No. 11 heading into the spring despite being mostly composed of freshmen and sophomores.

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Florida drops rivalry match against FSU

By Victor Prieto | Feb. 19, 2019

The Florida State women’s tennis team came to Gainesville with just one win in program history under the lights of the Ring Tennis Complex.

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Gators finish 1-2 in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships

By Noah Ram | Feb. 18, 2019

The UF men’s tennis team experienced something on Friday that it hadn’t experienced since last May.

UF men’s tennis sophomore Oliver Crawford is the No. 9-ranked collegiate player. He is one of three Gators ranked in the top 50.

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Gators complete massive comeback, beat TCU in Fort Worth

By Noah Ram | Feb. 10, 2019

Oliver Crawford won his singles match to help the Gators men's tennis team to a 4-3 win over TCU on Sunday.

Bryan Shelton was modest after earning his 100th career win as Florida's coach. “I don't hit a single ball in these matches so the players are the ones that should get the credit,” he said.

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Gators overcome rain delay, defeat Florida State

By Noah Ram | Feb. 3, 2019

Not even the weather could prevent the Florida Gators from beating their in-state rivals.

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Riffice leads Gators in rout of Knights

By Brendan Farrell | Jan. 31, 2019

The doubles tandem of freshman Sam Riffice and sophomore Oliver Crawford walked into the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida, fresh off a couple of wins at the ITA Kickoff event where it dropped just one point.

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Same goal, different start for Gators men’s and women’s teams

By Victor Prieto | Jan. 29, 2019

Florida’s women’s tennis team hasn’t had an ideal start to the season.