{"id":244981,"date":"2026-04-11T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:02:12","slug":"no-18-gators-mens-tennis-face-4-1-loss-to-no-1-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244981\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 18 Gators Men\u2019s Tennis Face 4-1 Loss to No. 1 Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas\u00a0\u2013 After a long match against the top-ranked Texas, the Gators eventually fell 4-1 to the Longhorns. The teams started the dual outdoors with doubles, but due to rain, they eventually had to make the move indoors to finish singles.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators kept it close in doubles, but eventually lost the point to Texas after falling on courts two and three. On court two, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/pablo-perez-ramos\/17898\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17898\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Perez Ramos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/adhithya-ganesan\/17894\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17894\" target=\"_blank\">Adhithya Ganesan<\/a> faced the No. 26 ranked Sebastian Gorzny and Lucas Marionneau from Texas in a 6-4 loss. They were followed by a 6-4 loss on court three from <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kevin-edengren\/17893\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17893\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Edengren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/lorenzo-claverie\/18147\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18147\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Claverie<\/a> to No. 39 ranked Sebastian Eriksson and Oliver Ojakaar to give Texas the point. The Gators court one pairing of No. 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/henry-jefferson\/17895\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17895\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Jefferson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tanapatt-nirundorn\/17897\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17897\" target=\"_blank\">Tanapatt Nirundorn<\/a> left their match at 5-5 against Kalin Ivanovski and Abel Forger following the doubles point decision on court three.<\/p>\n<p>Following doubles, the teams experienced an hour and a half rain delay. Many courts were only one game in, when the rain came, forcing them to play all of singles indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside, Gators came out strong in singles, with many courts three of the six courts taking the first set against the Longhorns. However, Texas was able to recover quickly with a two quick wins over Ganesan on court one and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jeremy-jin\/17896\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17896\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Jin<\/a> on court two, putting the Longhorns up to a 3-0 lead. Jefferson was able to secure the Gators lone point of the dual with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Texas&#8217;s Jonah Braswell on court five. The remaining three matches of Claverie on court three, Ramos on court four and Edengren on court six all went to a third set, but the match came to an end when Ramos fell to Abel Forger in the third set. With the match clinched, Claverie and Edengren&#8217;s matches went unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>Match Results<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDoubles&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>ORDER OF FINISH: 2, 3 (UNFINISHED \u2013 1)<br \/>\nSingles<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 1: No. 3 Sebastian Gorzny (TEXAS) def. No. 103 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/adhithya-ganesan\/17894\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17894\" target=\"_blank\">Adhithya Ganesan<\/a> (UF) (7-5, 6-0)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 2: No. 32 Kalin Ivanovski (TEXAS) def. No. 93 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jeremy-jin\/17896\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17896\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Jin<\/a> (UF) (6-4, 6-2)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/lorenzo-claverie\/18147\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18147\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Claverie<\/a> (UF) vs. No. 41 Sebastian Eriksson (TEXAS) (7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 2-2 \u2013 UNFINISHED)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 4: No. 109 Abel Forger (TEXAS) def. No. 56 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/pablo-perez-ramos\/17898\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17898\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Perez Ramos<\/a> (UF) (3-6, 6-1, 7-5)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 5: No. 69 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/henry-jefferson\/17895\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17895\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Jefferson<\/a> (UF) def. Jonah Braswell (TEXAS) (6-1, 7-5)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCourt 6: <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kevin-edengren\/17893\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17893\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Edengren<\/a> (UF) vs. Lucas Marionneau (TEXAS) 4-6, 6-4, 3-3 \u2013 UNFINISHED)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>ORDER OF FINISH: 1, 2, 5, 4 (UNFINISHED \u2013 3, 6)<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Gators will finish the regular season in Fayetteville, Ark. against the Razorbacks who are ranked at No. 36 by the ITA. The Razorbacks are 16-11 this season with a conference record of 3-9. The team has two doubles pairings ranked by the ITA with Eric Padgham and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/ben-weintraub\/17051\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17051\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Weintraub<\/a> at No. 31 and Connor Smillie and Jakub Vrba at No. 85. For ITA singles rankings, the team has Jakub Vrba ranked at No. 19 in the country. The two teams will face each other on Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE GATORS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSOCIAL: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GatorsMTN\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsTN\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gatorsmtn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas\u00a0\u2013 After a long match against the top-ranked Texas, the Gators eventually fell 4-1 to the Longhorns.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-244981","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\/244981","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=244981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}