{"id":113479,"date":"2026-01-10T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:03:15","slug":"seminoles-open-season-with-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113479\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminoles Open Season with Doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2013 The Florida State men&#8217;s tennis team begins its 78th season on Sunday with a doubleheader against Troy and Mercer at the Scott Speicher Memorial Tennis Center. Admission is free to all spectators.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe doubleheader begins at 11 a.m. against Troy before the next match starts later at 4 p.m. against Mercer. The Seminoles hold an 11-0 all-time record over the Trojans and have only lost once against the Bears of Mercer. Both series started in FSU&#8217;s inaugural season in 1948.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Seminoles swept the Bears 7-0 in 2024, where <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/azariah-rusher\/8198\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8198\" target=\"_blank\">Azariah Rusher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/justin-lyons\/8197\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8197\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Lyons<\/a> earned the first point of the season after the pair took the first match to defeat Samuel Barrow and Victor Putter 6-2. Lyons also clinched his first collegiate singles win against Barrow in a two-set victory.\u00a0Rusher made quick work in his spring singles debut after registering a sweep against Andrew Branicki.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSix athletes are returning from last year&#8217;s roster, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/corey-craig\/8196\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8196\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Craig<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jan-sebesta\/8200\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8200\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Sebesta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/erik-schiessl\/8199\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8199\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Schiessl<\/a>, Elias Sumnann, Rusher and Lyons. Florida State adds four new faces as Gabriele Brancetelli, <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/luis-felipe-miguel\/8204\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8204\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Felipe Miguel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mohammad-alkotop\/8202\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8202\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Alkotop<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/oren-ezerzer\/8205\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8205\" target=\"_blank\">Oren Ezerzer<\/a> enter their first season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Seminoles are coming off a 19-win season in 2025 and finished 23rd in the 2025 final ITA rankings. The team advanced to the Quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament for the 17th time and made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the sixth consecutive season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHead Coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/dwayne-hultquist\/168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Hultquist<\/a>\u00a0enters his 26th season, marking a quarter century of being at the helm for the Seminoles, while Assistant Coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/sudanwa-sitaram\/666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sudanwa Sitaram<\/a>\u00a0is set for his second season at Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>Live stats and streaming for both matches will be available on Seminoles.com<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information on the Florida State men&#8217;s tennis program, check Seminoles.com and follow us on social media at Florida State Men&#8217;s Tennis (FB) and FSUMTennis (IG and X).&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2013 The Florida State men&#8217;s tennis team begins its 78th season on Sunday with a doubleheader against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-113479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}