CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013 The No. 2 Virginia men\u2019s tennis team (10-2, 2-0 ACC) defeated SMU (9-6, 1-1 ACC) by a 4-2 score on Sunday (March 1) at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar\u2019s Head Resort in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n
SMU won the doubles point, but the Cavaliers picked up singles victories on courts 1, 2, 4 and 6 to take the victory.<\/p>\n
The top singles court featured a showdown between the No. 1 and No. 2 singles players in the nation. SMU\u2019s Trevor Svajda came into the week as the top player in the ITA singles rankings and had not lost a match since falling in the NCAA Singles Championship final in November. Dietrich was ranked No. 2 in the singles rankings.<\/p>\n
Svajda took the first set 6-3, but Dietrich took the second 6-1 to force a third, which Dietrich won 6-3 to secure the victory.<\/p>\n
It was the highest-ranked victory of Dietrich\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
SMU took No. 2 doubles 6-1 to get an early advantage. Both doubles courts one and three went to tiebreakers, with the Mustangs winning the breaker 8-6 on three to clinch the point.<\/p>\n
Freshman Andres Santamarta Roig<\/a> tied the match with a straight-set victory on court four. Sophomore Keegan Rice<\/a> won a three-setter on court two to put UVA up 2-1. SMU took court five before Dietrich picked up his victory on the top court. Senior M\u00e5ns Dahlberg<\/a> clinched the victory with a three-set win on court six.<\/p>\n ON THE HORIZON<\/p>\n Virginia travels to play at Cal and No. 12 Stanford next weekend (March 6 and 8)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n #2 Virginia 4, #38 SMU 2<\/p>\n Singles competition<\/p>\n #2 Dylan Dietrich<\/a> (VA) def. #1 Trevor Svajda (SMU) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 Doubles competition<\/p>\n #3 Dylan Dietrich<\/a>\/Mans Dahlberg<\/a> (VA) vs. Alex Finkelstein\/Krish Arora (SMU) 6-6, unfinished Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (4,2,5,1,6)<\/p>\n T-2:50 A-344<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013 The No. 2 Virginia men\u2019s tennis team (10-2, 2-0 ACC) defeated SMU (9-6, 1-1 ACC)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-499307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#12 Keegan Rice<\/a> (VA) def. #96 Alex Finkelstein (SMU) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
\n#80 Jangjun Kim<\/a> (VA) vs. Georgi Georgiev (SMU) 7-6 (7-4), 5-4, unfinished
\n#24 AndresSantamartaRoig (VA) def. Jerry Barton (SMU) 6-3, 6-2
\nKrish Arora (SMU) def. Stiles Brockett<\/a> (VA) 7-6 (8-6), 6-4
\nMans Dahlberg<\/a> (VA) def. Meethre Barot (SMU) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1<\/p>\n
\nTrevor Svajda\/Jerry Barton (SMU) def. AndresSantamartaRoig\/Jangjun Kim<\/a> (VA) 6-1
\nGeorgi Georgiev\/Vikas Deo (SMU) def. Keegan Rice<\/a>\/Stiles Brockett<\/a> (VA) 7-6 (7-4)<\/p>\n