Death, taxes and Arizona men\u2019s tennis making it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
The 8th-seeded Wildcats beat NAU 4-0 on Friday at the LaNelle Robson Tennis Center, winning their opening NCAA match for the sixth consecutive seasons. The UA (22-4) will take on Clemson, a 4-3 winner over Ole Miss, in the second round Saturday at 1 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting to the second round of the NCAA Tournament is no slouch,\u201d UA coach Clancy Shields said. \u201cBut to get a one seed, to play the four seed in the regional is huge. I\u2019m happy we got through today. We\u2019re gonna have a war with Clemson tomorrow, and they looked awesome today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clemson (17-12) needed 3-set victories from its No. 1 and No. 5 singles players to outlast Ole Miss in a match that lasted nearly three hours. Arizona\u2019s took less than 90 minutes, with Jay Friend, Filip Gustafsson and Alejandro Arcila each winning in straight sets to get three singles points along with the doubles point.<\/p>\n
Arizona and Clemson faced each other at a \u201cHidden Dual\u201d event in Florida in January, with the Tigers and Wildcats splitting eight singles matches and the UA winning four of five in doubles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be an absolute war, and if we don\u2019t bring our best, then we won\u2019t get through,\u201d Shields said. \u201cI think our team. they\u2019re ready for this, but we\u2019re gonna need to play a little better than we did today.\u201d<\/p>\n
A win Saturday would send Arizona to its fourth consecutive Sweet 16, but for the first time it would host. The Wildcats\u2019 regional is lined up against the regional hosted by No. 9 Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death, taxes and Arizona men\u2019s tennis making it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The 8th-seeded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[114935,99,428],"class_list":["post-620101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-arizona-wildcats-the-other-sports","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620101","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=620101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}