AUBURN, Ala. \u2013 No. 18 Auburn men\u2019s tennis dropped its final home match of the regular season Saturday afternoon to No. 2 Texas 4-0 at the Yarbrough Tennis Center in Auburn.<\/p>\n
In doubles, Auburn\u2019s Billy and Freddy Blaydes<\/a> jumped out to a 3-1 lead over Texas\u2019 Kalin Ivanovski and Abel Forger at the No. 1 position. The two sides held serve the remainder of the match, giving the Blaydes brothers a 6-4 victory. The Longhorns then won at the No. 2 position before edging out a 7-5 win at the No. 3 position to claim the doubles point.<\/p>\n Both teams won three opening sets to start singles play, with Auburn getting first-set victories from Hamza Nasridinov<\/a>, Nicholas Heng<\/a> and Manel Lazaro<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the No. 2 position, Billy Blaydes<\/a> bounced back from an early deficit against Ivanovski to tie the set at 4-4. Ivanovski then won each of the next two games to claim the opening set 6-4 before going on to win in straight sets to give Texas a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n The Longhorns then earned a straight-set win at the No. 5 position to extend their lead to 3-0. At the No. 4 position, Texas\u2019 Abel Forger won his opening set over Freddy Blaydes<\/a> 6-2. Forger claimed each of the first two games of the second set, but Blaydes came back to take a 4-3 lead by breaking serve twice. Forger then won each of the next three games to claim the match 6-2, 6-4 and clinch the team victory for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n The loss drops Auburn\u2019s record to 15-8 overall and 5-7 in conference play. The Tigers will finish the regular season on the road against No. 24 Ole Miss on Friday at 3 p.m. CT and No. 12 Georgia on Sunday at noon CT.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n #4 Texas 4, #18 Auburn 0<\/p>\n Singles Results:<\/p>\n #26 Hamza Nasridinov<\/a> (AUB) vs. #3 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-1, 2-6, 1-1, unfinished Doubles Results:<\/p>\n #10 Billy Blaydes<\/a>\/Freddy Blaydes<\/a> (AUB) def. Kalin Ivanovski\/Abel Forger (TEX) 6-4 \u00a0<\/p>\n Time of match: 3:50 Order of finish: Doubles: 1,2,3; Singles: 2,5,4 Official: Donna Jerome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN, Ala. \u2013 No. 18 Auburn men\u2019s tennis dropped its final home match of the regular season Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-235402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#31 Kalin Ivanovski (TEX) def. #78 Billy Blaydes<\/a> (AUB) 6-4, 6-2
\nNicholas Heng<\/a> (AUB) vs. #36 Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 7-5, 3-4, unfinished
\n#97 Abel Forger (TEX) def. Freddy Blaydes<\/a> (AUB) 6-2, 6-4
\nJonah Braswell (TEX) def. Alan Bojarski<\/a> (AUB) 6-1, 6-3
\nManel Lazaro<\/a> (AUB) vs. Lucas Marionneau (TEX) 6-4, 4-5, unfinished<\/p>\n
\n#26 Sebastian Gorzny\/Lucas Marionneau (TEX) def. Nicholas Heng<\/a>\/Alan Bojarski<\/a> (AUB) 6-4
\nSebastian Eriksson\/Evan Burnett (TEX) def. Jake Kennedy<\/a>\/Hamza Nasridinov<\/a> (AUB) 7-5<\/p>\n