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No. 5 Men's Tennis defeats No. 19 Florida State, 6-1
03.10.2010 | Men's Tennis
March 10, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas -- No. 5 Texas (14-2) claimed the doubles matches and went on to win five of six singles matches in a 6-1 win over No. 19 Florida State (9-2) Wednesday evening at UT's Penick-Allison Tennis Center.
Texas opened the doubles session with a win at the third slot. UT's 19th-ranked tandem of sophomore Jean Andersen and freshman Daniel Whitehead broke FSU's Andres Bucaro and Anderson Reed for a 2-1 lead and later broke once more for a 5-2 lead. Andersen and Whitehead never looked back on their way to an 8-4 win over the FSU duo.
At 5-all at first doubles, Texas' fourth-ranked senior duo of Dimitar Kutrovsky and Josh Zavala broke the Seminoles' Vahid Mirzadeh and Connor Smith to assume a 6-5 lead. After two service holds, the Texas duo served out the final game to win the match, 8-6 and preserve the doubles point for the Longhorns. Florida State's Andres Bucaro and Anderson Reed picked up a tie-break win over UT's Kellen Damico and Ed Corrie at second doubles.
Kutrovsky staked Texas to a 2-0 lead at first singles with a 6-2, 6-4 win over FSU's 35th-ranked Aubone. UT freshman Vasko Mladenov put the Horns up by a 3-0 count with a 6-3, 6-1 win over FSU's Reed at the sixth slot. Texas' Zavala clinched the victory for the Longhorns at fifth singles, where he dealt the Seminoles' Smith a 6-0, 6-3 defeat.
UT's Andersen stretched the Texas lead to 5-0 with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Bucaro at fourth singles, and the Longhorns' Damico pushed the lead to 6-0 when he outlasted FSU's 55th-ranked Bowles at third singles, 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (11-9). Florida State's Mirzadeh closed out the match with a third-set match tiebreak win over UT's Corrie at second singles.
Texas continues with its challenging stretch against non-conference opponents on Saturday, March 13 when it hosts No. 25 Michigan at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center. First serve is set for 4 p.m. Central.
No. 5 Texas 6, No. 19 Florida State 1
Doubles - Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
1 #4 Kutrovsky/Zavala (UT) def. Mirzadeh/Smith (FSU) - 8-6
2 Aubone/Bowles (FSU) def. #22 Corrie/Damico (UT) - 8-7 (5)
3 #19 Andersen/Whitehead (UT) def. Bucaro/Reed (FSU) - 8-4
Singles - Order of Finish: 1, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
1 #7 Dimitar Kutrovsky (UT) def. #35 Jean-Yves Aubone (FSU) - 6-2, 6-4
2 #69 Vahid Mirzadeh (FSU) def. #10 Ed Corrie (UT) - 6-7, 6-1, 1-0 (10-6)
3 #95 Kellen Damico (UT) def. #55 Clint Bowles (FSU) - 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (11-9)
4 Jean Andersen (UT) def. Andres Bucaro (FSU) - 6-4, 6-2
5 #78 Josh Zavala (UT) def. Connor Smith (FSU) - 6-0, 6-3
6 Vasko Mladenov (UT) def. Anderson Reed (FSU) - 6-3, 6-1
POST-MATCH COMMENTS
Texas head coach Michael Center
"It was a great win for us tonight. I feel like we are starting a new portion of our season with a pretty significant home stretch coming up, so we wanted to get off on the right foot tonight. I thought we played a good match across the board. Everyone fought out there tonight. We have discussed when we get those first sets that we need to increase our intensity and keep pushing. I looked up at the scoreboard and saw that we did a great job of that. This is a great win for us."
