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No. 20 Men’s Tennis Preview: No. 16 N.C. State and No. 6 North Carolina
03.01.2018 | Men's Tennis
Longhorns wrap their three-match stretch against ACC foes on the road this weekend.
WHAT: No. 20 Texas (7-2) takes to the road this weekend to meet a pair of top-20 opponents from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). UT meets No. 16 North Carolina State (9-0) on Friday before concluding its road trip Sunday at No. 6 North Carolina (9-2).
WHEN/WHERE
No. 20 Texas at No. 16 N.C. State
Friday, March 2 – 3 p.m. CT
Raleigh, N.C.
Live Video: http://gopack.com/watch/?Live=2178&type=Live
Live Scoring: http://sidearmstats.com/ncsu/mten/xlive.htm
No. 20 Texas at No. 6 North Carolina
Sunday, March 4 – Noon CT
Chapel Hill, N.C.
LAST TIME OUT: Texas defeated Georgia Tech by a 5-2 count in Austin (Feb. 25).
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
ITO EARNS SECOND BIG 12 WEEKLY HONOR
The Big 12 Conference announced Tuesday (Feb. 27) the selection of Texas All-America sophomore Yuya Ito as the league's Men's Tennis Player of the Week. Ito earns his second selection of the season after receiving the honor on Feb. 13.
The 118th-ranked Ito improved to 8-0 in dual-match play on Sunday and registered his second win of the season over a ranked opponent. He made short work of Georgia Tech's 41st-ranked Carlos Divar and prevailed 6-1, 6-2 as the Longhorns knocked off the Yellow Jackets, 5-2. Ito has not yielded a set in dual-match play, and he has not lost a match in over a month.
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.
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 at the time 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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