{"id":228495,"date":"2026-04-12T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:53:21","slug":"4-mens-tennis-cruises-to-7-0-win-at-eckerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228495\/","title":{"rendered":"#4 Men’s Tennis Cruises to 7-0 Win at Eckerd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"AA cubist interpretation of the intense action and competition of a high-level college tennis match.St. Petersburg Today<\/p>\n

The #4 Saint Leo University men’s tennis team earned a quality Sunshine State Conference victory on Friday at Eckerd, winning all but one doubles court en route to a 7-0 win. Saint Leo improves to 13-3 overall and 5-1 in SSC play while Eckerd falls to 10-6.<\/p>\n

Why it matters<\/p>\n

This win continues Saint Leo’s strong season and keeps them in contention for the Sunshine State Conference title. Eckerd’s loss drops them further down the conference standings.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The Lions dominated the doubles matches, winning all but one court. In singles play, Saint Leo won all six matches in straight sets to complete the 7-0 sweep.<\/p>\n

The match took place on Friday, April 11, 2026.<\/p>\n

The players<\/p>\n

Saint Leo University men’s tennis team<\/p>\n

The #4 ranked men’s tennis team from Saint Leo University.<\/p>\n

Eckerd<\/p>\n

The men’s tennis team from Eckerd College, who fell to 10-6 on the season with this loss.<\/p>\n

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\n What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

Saint Leo will look to continue their strong conference play when they host Florida Southern on April 18th. Eckerd will try to bounce back in their next SSC matchup.<\/p>\n

The takeaway<\/p>\n

Saint Leo’s dominant performance against a quality Eckerd team demonstrates their status as one of the top men’s tennis programs in the Sunshine State Conference this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Got story updates? Submit your updates here. \u203a A cubist interpretation of the intense action and competition of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-228495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228495","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=228495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}