University of Tennessee Athletics
MEN'S TENNIS CENTRAL: South Carolina/Florida
April 06, 2017 | Men's Tennis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee men's tennis team hosts a pair of top-20 conference opponents this weekend at Barksdale Stadium.
The Vols (9-11, 1-7 SEC) play 20th-ranked South Carolina (14-6, 5-4) on Friday at 5 p.m. Eastern. On Sunday, Tennessee takes on 14th-ranked Florida (18-1, 8-1) at 1 p.m. Admission is free for all home matches.
Seniors Sunay Bhat and Jack Schipanski will be honored Sunday during the break between singles and doubles as part of senior day festivities.
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PROJECTED LINEUPS
TENNESSEE
Singles
1. #40 Timo Stodder
2. Luis Valero
3. Srdjan Jakovljevic
4. Scott Jones
5. Luca Wiedenmann
6. Jack Schipanski
Doubles
1. #67 Valero/Stodder
2. Jones/Schipanski
3. Jakovljevic/Wiedenmann
SOUTH CAROLINA
Singles
1. #69 Harrison O'Keefe
2. #47 Gabriel Friedrich
3. Andrew Schafer
4. Yancy Dennis
5. Alex Fennell
6. Paul Jubb
Doubles
1. #31 Dennis/O'Keefe
2. Swank/Fennell
3. Friedrich/Schafer
FLORIDA
Singles
1. #11 Alfredo Perez
2. #73 Elliott Orkin
3. Chase Perez Blanco
4. Johannes Ingildsen
5. Maxx Lipman
6. #124 McClain Kessler
Doubles
1. #4 Perez/Ingildsen
2. Lipman/Orkin
3. Wardell/Perez
SENIOR CLASS
- Seniors Jack Schipanski and Sunay Bhat will be honored during the singles and doubles break Sunday against Florida.
- Schipanski, a finance major from Adelaide, Australia, is in his third year starting for the Vols. He reached three national doubles tournaments with Luis Valero; they reached the second round of the NCAA championships last season and won the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships.
- Bhat, an electrical engineering major, is a three-time ITA Scholar Athlete and won his first career SEC doubles match earlier this spring.
NEW-LOOK DOUBLES
- Last week, the Tennessee Volunteers debuted a new-look doubles lineup with Timo Stodder and Luis Valero playing together for the first time at the top of the lineup and the all-Australian team of Jack Schipanski and Scott Jones at No. 2.
- Stodder and Valero scored a top-20 win on their debut, beating an 18th-ranked Auburn duo 6-4. Stodder is now 5-0 against top-25 doubles teams this season with the other four wins coming with Jones.
- Srdjan Jakovljevic and Luca Wiedenmann are back at No. 3 doubles. They won their first SEC match at the No. 2 position last week at Auburn.
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