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No. 24 Men’s Tennis Preview: Georgia Tech
02.18.2018 | Men's Tennis
Longhorns take on Yellow Jackets in first of three straight matches against ACC foes.
WHAT: No. 24 Texas (6-2) concludes its three-match home stand and welcomes Georgia Tech (3-5) to Austin. The contest kicks off a stretch of three consecutive matches against Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) opponents. Texas visits North Carolina and North Carolina State the following weekend.
WHEN/WHERE
Georgia Tech at No. 24 Texas
Sunday, Feb. 25 – Noon CT
Texas Tennis Center
2100 Comal Street
Austin, Texas 78722
Live Video: http://hookem.at/WatchTennis
Live Scoring: http://hookem.at/MTNScoring
LAST TIME OUT: Texas notched a pair of 6-1 wins over Utah State (Feb. 9) and Arkansas (Feb. 11) in Austin.
ITA RANKINGS
Doubles
3. Rodrigo Banzer/Leonardo Telles
53. Yuya Ito/Harrison Scott
Singles
43. Leonardo Telles
62. Harrison Scott
82. John Mee
111. Rodrigo Banzer
118. Yuya Ito
LONGHORNS POST FIRST WIN AT TEXAS TENNIS CENTER
Texas notched its first team victory at its new Texas Tennis Center on Jan. 28 when it knocked off Tennessee in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend event. The Longhorns won the doubles point and added singles wins from Rodrigo Banzer, Yuya Ito and the clincher from Adrian Ortiz, as Texas dealt the visiting Volunteers a 4-1 defeat.
TEXAS SWEEPS OPENING WEEKEND
Wet weather forced the relocation Texas' season-opening, three-match homestand (Jan. 19 & 21), but the Longhorns took care of business nonetheless. Texas played out all seven points against UTSA and claimed a 7-0 victory over the Roadrunners. The Horns finished off a doubleheader sweep with their 4-0 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Texas hosted the grand opening of the Texas Tennis Center (Jan. 21) before relocating offsite for its afternoon match against SMU. Once again, the UT never relinquished a point, as Longhorns knocked off the Mustangs, 4-0.
BANZER SELECTED AS BIG 12 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
The Big 12 Conference announced the selection of Texas junior Rodrigo Banzer as the league's first Men's Tennis Player of the Week for the 2018 season (Jan. 16).
The 98th-ranked Banzer went 6-0 in singles and doubles and won the individual championship over the weekend at the Longhorn Invitational. Points were awarded for each singles and doubles win depending on their opponent's position in their lineup, and Banzer won the individual championship with room to spare.
Banzer, a native of La Paz, Bolivia, did not yield a set while winning his three singles matches. He improved to an impressive 15-3 in doubles alongside Leonardo Telles with three more doubles wins, which included a top-40 victory over Vanderbilt's 36th-ranked tandem of Lachlan McPhee and Billy Rowe.
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