LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 The No. 71 Liberty men’s tennis team (8-8) eyes to take two matches in Florida when they face No. 74 USF on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and battle FAU on Sunday at 1 p.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nLiberty is coming off a road defeat at Charlotte, falling 6-1 despite securing the doubles point.<\/p>\n
The team has plenty of recent history against both teams they will square off with this weekend. Liberty has met both USF and FAU in each of its previous two seasons. The Flames are 1-3 all-time against USF and 3-2 in program history against FAU.<\/p>\n
The Flames continue to face challenging competition this season. With the current ITA rankings, they have met No. 23 Auburn, No. 26 Arizona State, No. 30 UC Santa Barbara, No. 31 Princeton, No. 37 Yale, No. 44 Penn, No. 45 Georgia Tech and No. 51 Charlotte.
\n\u00a0
\nFlames News & Notes
\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n\tNo. 71 Liberty is one of four CUSA men’s tennis programs to own a national ITA team ranking. Out of five total CUSA teams, they are joined by No. 43 MTSU, No. 73 Jacksonville State and No. 75 Kennesaw State.
\n\tCollectively, the Flames are 46-43 (.517) in singles and 22-16 (.579) in doubles.
\n\tThe Flames are 3-1 in their last four matches in the No. 1 doubles position, while owning a 4-8 record for the season in the position.
\n\tThe No. 2 doubles slot owns a 10-4 record with No. 3 sporting an 8-4 mark.
\n\tChase Robinson<\/a> leads the team with a 9-5 singles record. He is 5-1 in the No. 6 singles slot.
\n\tRodrigo Santiago Arraez<\/a> holds the No. 1 singles position with a 6-7 overall record.
\n\tLiberty sports a 10-4 record in the No. 2 singles position, led by Carl Roothman<\/a> with a 5-3 mark.
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 The No. 71 Liberty men’s tennis team (8-8) eyes to take two matches in Florida when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-207461","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\/207461","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=207461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}