{"id":216657,"date":"2026-04-02T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:12:12","slug":"fgcu-heads-to-tampa-for-friday-evening-match-at-no-70-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216657\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU heads to Tampa for Friday evening match at No. 70 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 FGCU&#8217;s men&#8217;s tennis team will wrap up the regular season on Friday evening when the Eagles head to Tampa to take on No. 70 South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. at USF&#8217;s new multi-million-dollar tennis facility. Fans can watch the match via USF&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.playsight.com\/live\/university-of-south-florida-tennis\/10301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FGCU (8-12) enters the regular season finale looking to grab a win and heal up before hosting the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament on Apr. 14-18 at the FGCU Tennis Complex.<\/p>\n<p>USF (6-13) moved up in the rankings from No. 74 to No. 72 this week after splitting a pair of 4-3 decisions to higher ranked opponents, dropping a match last Friday to No. 68 Liberty before rebounding on Sunday with a win over No. 48 Harvard. The Bulls will face No. 55 Charlotte in an American Athletic Conference match-up at 11 a.m. Friday before their split doubleheader nightcap against the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Bulls is Hugo Carr (16-11), who currently ranks No. 123 in the nation in singles. Carr has a 9-7 mark in dual match action this season with all 16 matches taking place at No. 1 singles. Both he and Elijah Cham ride a three-match winning streak in singles while Gughi Verdese, who has spent most the dual season scattered across Nos. 4-6 singles, has won four straight singles matches.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time since 2024 that the Eagles are facing the Bulls and FGCU heads to Tampa. Since next weekend&#8217;s match at Stetson has been canceled, this will mark the regular season finale for FGCU before the Eagles host the ASUN Tournament on April 14-18.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information on the Eagles, follow FGCU Athletics on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fgcuathletics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FGCUEagles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FGCUAthletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and visit <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FGCUathletics.com<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 FGCU&#8217;s men&#8217;s tennis team will wrap up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-216657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216657","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=216657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}