SEC men's tennis update, March 5

The opening weekend of SEC play is now in the books.

Friday matches:

Texas A&M 7, Auburn 0 - easy win for the Aggies. Clean sweep with no sets won for Auburn.

Georgia 4, Tennessee 2 - Critical win for Georgia to get them into the rankings

Miss State 7, Vanderbilt 0 - Closer than the score but the result was never in doubt

Arkansas 5, South Carolina 2 - SC dominated at 1 and 2 but Arkansas's depth was too strong 3-6 as they swept the sets on the bottom courts

Alabama 5, LSU 2 - Solid win for Bama, winning at 1,2,5 and 6

Kentucky 4, Ole Miss 3 - Big drama in this match. At 3-3 it came down to court 2 between Wallart (UK) and Kraljevic (Ole Miss). Wallart saved 3 match points at 5-6 15-40 and then won the 3rd set tiebreaker 7-2 to clinch the upset win for the Cats. There was some drama with the crowd too apparently getting involved with the Kentucky player.

Sunday matches:

Miss State 7, Kentucky 0 - Beatdown for MSU to cap off an impressive weekend

Vanderbilt 4, Ole Miss 0 - Not a good showing from the Rebs following the heartbreaker on Friday. They should not be getting beat this easily by Vandy.

LSU 5, Auburn 2 - Auburn is just a notch below the rest of the SEC

Florida 6, Arkansas 1 - Strong win at 1 for Mesquida for Arkansas but Florida dominated on every other court.

Texas A&M 4, Alabama 3 - This was another dramatic one. Just like Ole Miss/UK, it came down to court 2 tied 3-3. Hady Habib of A&M saved 3 match points against Edson Ortiz of Bama and then won the 3rd set breaker 7-2 to give A&M the much needed ranking boosting win.

Non conference Sunday:

Texas 4, Georgia 2 - Close loss for UGA against the #3 team in the country. They played singles 1st due to weather and UGA just barely missed out on sending the match to a deciding doubles point.


SEC teams in the ITA top 50 rankings (released March 5):

9 Florida
10 Miss State
17 Alabama
24 LSU
25 Tennessee
26 Vanderbilt
28 Texas A&M
29 South Carolina
33 Arkansas
34 Georgia
40 Ole Miss
44 Kentucky
Auburn

full national rankings

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SEC players in the singles top 125 rankings:

3 Nuno Borges, Miss State
10 Jan Zielinski, Georgia
12 Paul Jubb, South Carolina
20 Emil Reinberg, Georgia
24 Oliver Crawford, Florida
36 Mazen Osama, Alabama
38 Valentin Vacherot, Texas A&M
44 Ryotaro Matsumara, Kentucky
48 Sam Riffice, Florida
53 Omar Mesquida, Arkansas
54 Andy Andrade, Florida
58 Barnaby Smith, Texas A&M
59 Timo Stodder, Tennessee
73 Tim Sandkaulen, Ole Miss
79 Johannes Ingildsen, Florida
88 Daniel Rodrigues, South Carolina
93 Adam Walton, Tennessee
95 Phillip Henning, Georgia
102 Giovanni Oradini, Miss State
112 Shane Monroe, LSU
120 Haby Habib, Texas A&M
121 Austin Abbrat, Texas A&M
124 Adam Sanjurjo, Arkansas

full national top 125

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