No. 6 MT Falls to No. 3 Florida in NCAA Quarterfinals

Thursday, May 16

Orlando, Fla.

6:00 p.m. CT

Baylor

Florida (Quarterfinals)

No. 6 MT Falls to No. 3 Florida in NCAA Quarterfinals

5/16/2019 11:54:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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Bears finish season in NCAA tournament for 22nd-straight year

THE RUNDOWN
ORLANDO, Fla. – After a close doubles point, sixth-ranked and sixth-seeded Baylor men's tennis (25-6) saw its season come to a close with a 4-0 loss to fourth-ranked and third-seeded Florida (25-3) Thursday night in the NCAA quarterfinals at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.

BU is now 59-21 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 5-8 in quarterfinal matches. With the loss, Florida takes a 7-6 lead in the all-time series and evens the postseason meetings at 1-1.

Baylor had the upper hand to start the match in doubles. After being up 4-3, Will Little and Matias Soto dropped a 6-4 contest to Oliver Crawford and Alfredo Perez at the No. 2 spot. Then, the top-ranked duo of Jimmy Bendeck and Sven Lah fell 7-5 to Johannes Ingildsen and McClain Kessler on court one for the early 1-0 Florida lead.

BU found itself in a hole during singles play when it only took two first sets courtesy of No. 112 Adrian Boitan and 20^th-ranked Johannes Schretter.

UF went up 2-0 after Bendeck dropped a 6-1, 6-0 match to McClain Kessler on court six.

Baylor fell down 3-0 after 76^th-ranked Lah lost 6-2, 6-2 to No. 59 Andres Andrade at the No. 5 spot. BU ultimately dropped the match when 25^th-ranked Soto was upset by 54^th-ranked Sam Riffice, 6-3, 6-4, on court two.

Before the match was suspended, Schretter held a 6-4, 2-5 lead while Boitan led 6-4, 1-3 on court three. 78^th-ranked Little dropped his opening set but was knotted up in the second set at 3-6, 5-5.

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NOTABLES
• The Bears are 59-21 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including 5-8 in the quarterfinals.
• Baylor closes out its 22^nd-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
• Baylor advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the 13^th time in 22 NCAA appearances.
• Baylor drops to 6-7 all-time against Florida, including 1-1 in the NCAA Tournament.
• BU finishes at 17-6 against ranked opponents this season.
• Baylor finishes 22-8 in the doubles point and 4-4 when dropping the opening point this season.
• Adrian Boitan finishes the season 7-0 against ranked foes.
• Baylor finishes the season at 25-6, including a 7-3 neutral site record.
• Sven Lah's six-match singles winning streak was snapped Thursday night.

STAT OF THE MATCH
13 – the number of NCAA quarterfinal matches in program history.

TOP QUOTE
Head coach Brian Boland
On the match…
"We give Florida a lot of credit for the way they competed and played tonight. They're an extremely talented team, and they did a great job tonight coming out and executing and playing hard every point. We give Florida a lot of credit. I thought that we certainly could have competed better in certain spots, but Florida was the better team tonight."

WHAT'S NEXT
Select Bears will participate in the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, running May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. Jimmy Bendeck and Sven Lah are the top-seeded team in the doubles bracket while Johannes Schretter and Matias Soto are at-large bids to the singles draw.

Full brackets will be released at a later date.