{"id":486200,"date":"2026-02-17T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:49:08","slug":"mens-tennis-central-tennessee-vs-chattanooga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486200\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Central: Tennessee vs. Chattanooga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Tennessee men&#8217;s tennis team is set to take on Chattanooga on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. ET in the first outdoor match of the season at Barksdale Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLive stats are linked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidearmstats.com\/utennessee\/mten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. Admission is free to fans, and tennis parking will be available on West Volunteer Boulevard and at the top of the CI7\/NC7 garage located next to Barksdale Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWHAT A START!<br \/>\nFreshman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shion-itsusaki\/22261\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22261\" target=\"_blank\">Shion Itsusaki<\/a>\u00a0pushed his combined win streak to five matches after he tallied the third doubles win of his career. Itsusaki is still perfect in his college career with a 5-0 combined record (3-0 in doubles and 2-0 in singles).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSCOUTING CHATTANOOGA<br \/>\nAfter the Mocs&#8217; first six matches were canceled, Chattanooga has started the year winless with losses against Gardner-Webb, 5-2, and Georgia Southern, 6-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUT is currently on an 18-game win streak against Chattanooga, with the first victory in the all-time series coming in 1932 in 6-1 fashion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nVOLS IN THE RANKINGS<br \/>\nSingles<br \/>\n#56 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alejandro-moreno\/22257\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22257\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Moreno<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMILESTONE TRACKER<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/ethan-muza\/22262\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22262\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Muza<\/a> picked up his 25th career doubles win by teaming up with <a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shion-itsusaki\/22261\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22261\" target=\"_blank\">Shion Itsusaki<\/a> to best Michigan&#8217;s Nicholas Steiglehner and Arnav Bhandari, 6-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jose-garcia\/22254\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22254\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Garcia<\/a> is one win away from achieving 30 career singles triumphs. Garcia has taken a huge step this season, compiling 10-5 singles record in 2025-26.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe winningest Vol on the team, <a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alejandro-moreno\/22257\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22257\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Moreno<\/a> is three singles wins from 70 on his career. Moreno has an impressive 34-16 singles record in his two years with Tennessee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nThe Big Orange will start conference play by traveling to Lexington to play Kentucky on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>For the most up-to-date information about the program, follow Tennessee men&#8217;s tennis on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vol_Tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vol_tennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolsTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Tennessee men&#8217;s tennis team is set to take on Chattanooga on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-486200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}