{"id":190274,"date":"2026-03-13T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:24:07","slug":"no-37-middle-tennessee-takes-on-south-florida-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190274\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 37 Middle Tennessee Takes on South Florida in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0No. 37 Middle Tennessee (15-5) heads to Tampa for a matchup against South Florida (3-11).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The all-time series between the programs is even, with the Bulls holding a 6-6 record against the Blue Raiders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About Middle Tennessee \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn their last outing against Alabama A&amp;M, the doubles pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/birtan-duran\/14318\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14318\" target=\"_blank\">Birtan Duran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/santiago-lora\/14736\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14736\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Lora<\/a> secured a 6-3 victory over Tasso Moreira and Eduardo Andreta. The win marked the first time this season Duran and Lora teamed up in doubles competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In singles play, senior <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/karim-al-amin\/13800\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13800\" target=\"_blank\">Karim Al-Amin<\/a> continues to lead the Blue Raiders with a 13-2 record and is currently riding a nine-match winning streak. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/antoine-mayoral\/14315\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14315\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Mayoral<\/a> has a 6-3 record and enters the match on a two-match winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About South Florida \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSouth Florida has two players in the ITA singles rankings, with Elijah Cham ranked No. 122 and Hugo Car ranked No. 114.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls are led by head coach Ashley Fisher, who is in his 10th season with the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE BLUE RAIDERS \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow Middle Tennessee men&#8217;s tennis on social media on Facebook (BlueRaiderMensTennis), Twitter (MT_MensTennis) and Instagram (MT_MensTennis)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0No. 37 Middle Tennessee (15-5) heads to Tampa for a matchup against South Florida (3-11).\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-190274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190274","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=190274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}