{"id":220063,"date":"2026-04-06T02:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:47:09","slug":"miami-mens-tennis-drops-close-one-to-unc-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220063\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami men\u2019s tennis drops close one to UNC 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/themiamihurricane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/vUTSA_best_11.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sophomore Sam Baumgartner hits a powerful forehand at the Schiff Tennis Center on Feb. 23, 2024. Photo credit: Trevor Castleman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"673\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vUTSA_best_11-1068x673.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"vUTSA_best_11.jpg\"\/><\/a>Sophomore Sam Baumgartner hits a powerful forehand at the Schiff Tennis Center on Feb. 23, 2024. Photo credit: Trevor Castleman<\/p>\n<p>The University of Miami men\u2019s tennis team took on the North Carolina Tar Heels on a cloudy Friday afternoon at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center on April 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>After a hard fought affair, Hurricanes lost a 4-3 decision, bringing their record to 12-10, and 4-7 within the ACC.<\/p>\n<p>The Canes started off strong by earning a doubles point. However, the Tar Heels rallied back on court two as Niels Ratiu and Chris Xu took down Antonio Prat and Rafael Segado on court two, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Over on court three, Nacho Serra Sanchez and Jules Garot took care of business, winning 6-2 over Ian Mayew and Logan Zapp. Meanwhile, No. 43 Jakub Kroslak and Mehdi Sadaoui were able to handle things as well, winning a closer match at the top court, 6-4, over No. 34 Roan Jones and Anthony Wright.<\/p>\n<p>In singles, Miami got their first win as No. 118 Serra Sanchez handily beat No. 58 Jones, 6-2, 6-0, on court two. However, UNC struck back as they then took three straight for the lead on court one, three and six<\/p>\n<p>Segado was able to tie it back at three on court four, beating Ratiu 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. However, Sadaoui fell 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 to Djakouris on court five.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes are back on Sunday to face Duke at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophomore Sam Baumgartner hits a powerful forehand at the Schiff Tennis Center on Feb. 23, 2024. Photo credit:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-220063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220063","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=220063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}