Tigers Advance to SEC Quarterfinals With 4-1 Victory

ATHENS, Ga. (April 21, 2022) -The LSU men’s tennis team state-of-the-art to the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament right after the #9 Tigers defeated #8 Mississippi Point out, 4-1, Thursday afternoon.

LSU picked up their to start with get at the SEC Match due to the fact the 2014-15 time when they defeated Ole Pass up, 4-1.

Doubles have been a struggle as the Tigers and Bulldogs traded wins to start the working day. Gabriel Diaz Freire and Kent Hunter defeated Nemanja Malesevic/Davide Tortora, 6-4, but Ben Koch and Nick Watson fell to Carles Hernandez/Bautista Vilicich, 4-6. The match on court 1 among Vlad Lobak/Ronald Hohmann and MSU’s rated duo in #41 Florian Broska/Gregor Ramskogler would make your mind up the doubles place. Lobak/Hohmann found them selves down, 4-5, but rallied again to tie it up at 5. The LSU duo would ring off two straight factors, securing the doubles position for the Tigers.

LSU took that momentum into singles, in which the Tigers picked up four of the 6 initial sets. Mississippi Point out would be the initially to strike in singles following Davide Tortora defeated Joao Graca, 6-1, 6-2. On court docket 6, Boris Kozlov rolled as a result of his very first set, 6-1. Kozlov fell guiding -4 in his second set, but flipped the script as he strung off 5-consecutive recreation victories. With the next established tied at 5-5, Kozlov won two more video games and took the match, 6-1, 7-5. As LSU lead 2-1, Gabriel Diaz Freire also picked up a straight-set victory on court four, 6-3, 7-5.

LSU would have to have a person additional court for the victory as courts one particular, two, and 3 would head to a 3rd established. The best-50 matchup in between No. 42 Ronald Hohmann and No. 22 Florian Broska was just as advertised. Hohmann picked up the initially set, 6-4, and Broska won the next set, 3-6. Hohmann rolled as a result of the 3rd-established, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, and clinched the victory for LSU, 4-1.

#9 LSU will facial area off from #1 Florida in the SEC Quarterfinals on Friday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m. at the Dan Magill Tennis Complicated in Athens, Ga.