{"id":126609,"date":"2026-01-21T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:17:21","slug":"alkotop-rusher-named-acc-co-doubles-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126609\/","title":{"rendered":"Alkotop, Rusher Named ACC Co-Doubles Team of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2013 Florida State doubles pairing <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\/azariah-rusher\/8198\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8198\" target=\"_blank\">Azariah Rusher<\/a> were named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week. The two are currently ranked No. 82 nationally and are 5-0 on the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAlkotop and Rusher started their week against the College of Charleston on Thursday in the Seminoles&#8217; 7-0 sweep, beating Jakub Solarski and Eddie Vo 6-2 on court two. In singles play, Rusher extended the Seminoles lead to 3-0 after a two-set victory against Solarski, while Alkotop added a win of his own in a three-set match against Jake Smith.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe pair concluded their weekend in a doubleheader against Alabama State and The Citadel on Sunday. Alkotop and Rusher started the day on court two against the Hornets with a commanding 6-1 victory, before earning their second doubles victory of the day against the Citadel with a 6-2 win to clinch the doubles point for FSU.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Seminoles will be back in action on Wednesday when they faceoff against No. 11 Arizona for a 4 p.m. match at the Robson Tennis Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<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).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2013 Florida State doubles pairing Mohammad Alkotop and Azariah Rusher were named the ACC Doubles Team of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-126609","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\/126609","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=126609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}