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No. 5 Men’s Tennis preview: ITA National Team Indoor Championships Day Three
02.14.2021 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns face No. 10 Tennessee in the consolation bracket in their last match of the event on Sunday.
No. 5 Men's Tennis preview: ITA National Team Indoor Championships Day Three
When: Fri.-Sun., Feb. 12-14, 2021 (vs. No. 10 Tennessee, 12 p.m. CT, Feb. 14)
Where: Atkins Tennis Center, Champaign, Ill.
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Tournament Central
ITA Tournament Home
Team Records: Texas (8-2, 0-0 Big 12), Tennessee (9-1, 0-0 SEC)
Notes
-ITA National Team Indoor Championships
Texas opened the tournament dropping a 4-0 decision to No. 4 Baylor on Friday, but rebounded with a 4-3 win against No. 1 USC in the consolation bracket on Saturday. The Longhorns now face No. 10 Tennessee on Sunday at 12 p.m. CT. The Volunteers fell to No. 2 North Carolina in the opening round on Friday and then defeated No. 3 TCU on Saturday.
-Tournament Schedule (All times Central)
Friday, Feb. 12
Match 1 – No. 6 seed Virginia def. No. 3 seed TCU, 4-3
Match 2 – No. 2 seed North Carolina def. No. 7 seed Tennessee, 4-1
Match 3 – No. 4 seed Baylor def. No. 5 seed Texas, 4-0
Match 4 – No. 8 seed Illinois def. No. 1 seed USC, 4-1
Saturday, Feb. 13
Match 5 – No. 7 seed Tennessee def. No. 3 seed TCU, 4-3
Match 6 – No. 2 seed North Carolina def. No. 6 seed Virginia, 4-2
Match 7 – No. 5 seed Texas def. No. 1 seed USC, 4-3
Match 8 – No. 4 seed Baylor def. No. 8 seed Illinois, 4-0
Sunday, Feb. 14
Match 9 – No. 1 seed USC vs. No. 3 seed TCU, 9 a.m.
Match 10 – No. 5 seed Texas vs. No. 7 seed Tennessee, 12 p.m.
Third Place – No. 6 seed Virginia vs. No. 8 seed Illinois, 3:30 p.m.
Championship – No. 2 seed North Carolina vs. No. 4 seed Baylor, 6:30 p.m.
-Tennessee Series: Texas leads, 8-5
Texas and Tennessee are meeting for the first time since 2018, when No. 8 Texas defeated Tennessee, 4-1, in the Austin ITA Kickoff Weekend at the Texas Tennis Center. The Longhorns and Volunteers have met ? times at the ITA Indoors, including one win by Texas (5-1/1987), and two by Tennessee (5-1/1991; 4-1/2010). The Volunteer win in 2010 was its most recent in the overall series.
Last Meeting
No. 3 Texas 4, Tennessee 1
Sun., Jan. 28, 2018 • Austin, Texas (Texas Tennis Center)
Singles – Order of Finish (3,4,1,6)
1. No. 36 Timo Stodder (Tennessee) def. No. 37 Leonardo Telles (Texas), 6-3, 6-2
2. No. 27 Harrison Scott (Texas) vs. Preston Touliatos (Tennessee), 2-6, 4-4, unf.
3. Yuya Ito (Texas) def. Luis Valero (Tennessee), 6-1, 6-2
4. No. 98 Rodrigo Banzer (Texas) def. Adam Walton (Tennessee), 6-2, 6-2
5. John Mee (Texas) vs. Nicaise Muamba (Tennessee), 7-5, 2-1, unf.
6. Adrian Ortiz (Texas) def. Luca Wiedenmann (Tennessee), 6-3, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,3)
1. No. 5 Rodrigo Banzer/Leonardo Telles (Texas) def. Preston Touliatos/Adam Walton (Tennessee), 6-2
2. No. 23 Yuya Ito/Harrison Scott (Texas) vs. Timo Stodder/Luis Valero (Tennessee), 4-5, unf.
3. Colin Markes/Adrian Ortiz (Texas) def. Andrew Rogers/Nicaise Muamba (Tennessee), 6-3
-Texas vs Tennessee in 2020 tournament play
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-Ranked No. 5
Texas is ranked No. 5 in the most recent Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Rankings released Feb. 3 by the ITA. It marks the 23rd-straight time the Longhorns have been ranked in the top six dating back to January 2019 with 22 of those being in the top five.
-ITA Individual National Rankings (Jan. 13)
Texas
Singles
No. 57 Siem Woldeab
No. 78 Micah Braswell
No. 120 Eliot Spizzirri
Doubles
t-No. 43 Payton Holden/Siem Woldeab
Newcomers
No. 5 Micah Braswell
Tennessee
Singles
No. 24 Adam Walton
No. 124 Pat Harper
Doubles
N/A
Players Mentioned
