University of Tennessee Athletics
Saturday, March 11
Knoxville, TN
1 PM
University of Tennessee
vs
LSU
Men’s Tennis Central: #20 Tennessee vs. LSU
March 10, 2023 | Men's Tennis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The 20th-ranked Tennessee men's tennis team caps off its two-match homestand Saturday with a dual against LSU at 1 p.m. ET.
After handily defeating Vanderbilt on Thursday, Tennessee looks to earn a second home SEC victory this weekend as the Tigers come to town.
Live stats will be provided by UTsports.com and can be found here. Live streaming is available for free through Playsight here.
Admission is free and complimentary tennis parking is located in SC40 at the Kingston Pike Building. Additional parking information can be found here. For outdoor matches at Barksdale Stadium this season, concessions and alcoholic beverages will be sold on the concourse, at the top of the grandstand behind court two. More information on Tennessee's enhanced fan experience efforts can be found here.
LAST TIME OUT
Tennessee took down in-state rival Vanderbilt in convincing fashion, 6-1, Thursday in Knoxville.
SCOUTING LSU
Tennessee (10-5, 1-1 SEC) holds a slight 34-33-1 edge over LSU (8-4, 0-3 SEC) in the all-time series, which dates to 1952. The lone tie came in 1968, 2-2. The Vols have won 13 of the past 16 meetings with the Tigers, including five consecutive wins.
Saturday serves as LSU's fourth conference match of the season and third on the road. It opened SEC play at Texas A&M, falling 4-1, before dropping a pair of 6-1 decisions to No. 19 Florida at home and No. 6 Kentucky in Lexington.
The Tigers' last true road win against an SEC foe came on March 20, 2022, as they defeated Alabama, 4-2. In a trip to the Bayou last season, then-fourth-ranked Tennessee dominated LSU, 4-1, on March 27. In each of the past two meetings between the teams, including this week's match LSU has been ranked No. 40 in the ITA team rankings upon playing the Vols.
VOLS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#7 – Johannus Monday
#62 – Emile Hudd
#120 – Shunsuke Mitsui
Doubles
#4 – Pat Harper/Johannus Monday
#50 – Emile Hudd/Shunsuke Mitsui
TIGERS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#55 – Ronnie Hohmann
Doubles
#35 – Stefan Latinovic/Nick Watson
HE'S FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER
• Pat Harper has won six of his past seven singles matches, dating to last season. At 3-0 on the singles courts this year, the Aussie has a game advantage of 24-5 in his past two wins, each coming at the No. 6 spot. Harper took down Vanderbilt's Macsen Sisam in straight sets Thursday, improving his career SEC singles record to 8-4.
WELCOME TO THE DIAZ SHOW
• Angel Diaz has consistently bolstered the bottom of Tennessee's singles lineup this dual season, recording a 9-2 combined record at the No. 5 and 6 singles spots. Overall this spring, Diaz is 10-2 and is 19-8 in overall singles matches, dating to the fall.
RANKED VOLS
• With the ITA's March 7 update of its singles and doubles rankings, Tennessee has had either a top-10 singles acclaim or a top-10 doubles pair in 18 of the past 19 dual-season rankings updates, dating to March 24, 2021. This week, UT has a top-10 ranking in singles and doubles. Johannus Monday is ranked No. 7 in singles and the duo of Monday and Harper comes in at No. 4 in doubles.
JO MOMENTUM
• Monday, a two-time ITA Singles All-American, is a combined 20-2 in dual singles and doubles matches this spring. At 10-1 in singles and 10-1 on the doubles courts this spring, 14 of those 20 total wins are at the No. 1 lineup spot (7-1 at No. 1 singles and 7-1 at No. 1 doubles). Monday is one of four players in the nation to currently be ranked inside the ITA's top five in doubles and top 10 in singles.
HISTORY IN SIGHT
• Harper, with 86 career overall doubles wins at Tennessee, is nine wins away from cracking the top-10 on the program's all-time doubles wins list. Should he reach 100 career doubles wins by season's end, he will become just the ninth Vol to ever do so in a career.
DUBS DUBS
• Tennessee is 27-7 (.794) in dual doubles matches this spring. That winning percentage ranks second in the SEC behind only South Carolina's 30-6 (.833) mark.
MILESTONE TRACKER
• Diaz needs one more singles win to reach his 70th career overall singles victory.
• Tomas Rodriguez is one doubles victory shy of earning his 80th career overall doubles win.
QUICK HITTERS
• With three individuals (Monday, Shunsuke Mitsui and Emile Hudd) having played at the position, the Vols are 11-2 at the No. 1 singles slot this dual season.
• Hudd is riding a career-long doubles winning streak of six matches. Five of the six wins in the streak have been alongside Mitsui.
• In Tennessee's win over Vanderbilt Thursday, it reached 50 dual singles wins as a team this spring.
• Tennessee boasts a 49-5 (.907) record at home since the beginning of the 2020 dual season, including a 8-1 home mark in 2023.
• The Vols are 8-0 this year when collecting a point at the No. 5 singles spot.
• UT has won the doubles point in 13 of its 15 matches this season.
• Seven different Vols on UT's nine-man roster have clinched Tennessee's 10 wins this season, with Blaise Bicknell, Diaz and Hudd leading the team with two apiece. Martim Prata, Boris Kozlov, Monday and Mitsui have clinched one match each this year.
UP NEXT
Tennessee embarks on its first multi-match SEC road trip of the season next week, traveling south to face Alabama on Thursday, March 16, at 5 p.m. ET, before facing seventh-ranked Georgia in Athens on Saturday, March 18, at 4 p.m. ET.
For the most up-to-date information about the program, follow Tennessee men's tennis on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook.
After handily defeating Vanderbilt on Thursday, Tennessee looks to earn a second home SEC victory this weekend as the Tigers come to town.
Live stats will be provided by UTsports.com and can be found here. Live streaming is available for free through Playsight here.
Admission is free and complimentary tennis parking is located in SC40 at the Kingston Pike Building. Additional parking information can be found here. For outdoor matches at Barksdale Stadium this season, concessions and alcoholic beverages will be sold on the concourse, at the top of the grandstand behind court two. More information on Tennessee's enhanced fan experience efforts can be found here.
LAST TIME OUT
Tennessee took down in-state rival Vanderbilt in convincing fashion, 6-1, Thursday in Knoxville.
SCOUTING LSU
Tennessee (10-5, 1-1 SEC) holds a slight 34-33-1 edge over LSU (8-4, 0-3 SEC) in the all-time series, which dates to 1952. The lone tie came in 1968, 2-2. The Vols have won 13 of the past 16 meetings with the Tigers, including five consecutive wins.
Saturday serves as LSU's fourth conference match of the season and third on the road. It opened SEC play at Texas A&M, falling 4-1, before dropping a pair of 6-1 decisions to No. 19 Florida at home and No. 6 Kentucky in Lexington.
The Tigers' last true road win against an SEC foe came on March 20, 2022, as they defeated Alabama, 4-2. In a trip to the Bayou last season, then-fourth-ranked Tennessee dominated LSU, 4-1, on March 27. In each of the past two meetings between the teams, including this week's match LSU has been ranked No. 40 in the ITA team rankings upon playing the Vols.
VOLS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#7 – Johannus Monday
#62 – Emile Hudd
#120 – Shunsuke Mitsui
Doubles
#4 – Pat Harper/Johannus Monday
#50 – Emile Hudd/Shunsuke Mitsui
TIGERS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#55 – Ronnie Hohmann
Doubles
#35 – Stefan Latinovic/Nick Watson
HE'S FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER
• Pat Harper has won six of his past seven singles matches, dating to last season. At 3-0 on the singles courts this year, the Aussie has a game advantage of 24-5 in his past two wins, each coming at the No. 6 spot. Harper took down Vanderbilt's Macsen Sisam in straight sets Thursday, improving his career SEC singles record to 8-4.
WELCOME TO THE DIAZ SHOW
• Angel Diaz has consistently bolstered the bottom of Tennessee's singles lineup this dual season, recording a 9-2 combined record at the No. 5 and 6 singles spots. Overall this spring, Diaz is 10-2 and is 19-8 in overall singles matches, dating to the fall.
RANKED VOLS
• With the ITA's March 7 update of its singles and doubles rankings, Tennessee has had either a top-10 singles acclaim or a top-10 doubles pair in 18 of the past 19 dual-season rankings updates, dating to March 24, 2021. This week, UT has a top-10 ranking in singles and doubles. Johannus Monday is ranked No. 7 in singles and the duo of Monday and Harper comes in at No. 4 in doubles.
JO MOMENTUM
• Monday, a two-time ITA Singles All-American, is a combined 20-2 in dual singles and doubles matches this spring. At 10-1 in singles and 10-1 on the doubles courts this spring, 14 of those 20 total wins are at the No. 1 lineup spot (7-1 at No. 1 singles and 7-1 at No. 1 doubles). Monday is one of four players in the nation to currently be ranked inside the ITA's top five in doubles and top 10 in singles.
HISTORY IN SIGHT
• Harper, with 86 career overall doubles wins at Tennessee, is nine wins away from cracking the top-10 on the program's all-time doubles wins list. Should he reach 100 career doubles wins by season's end, he will become just the ninth Vol to ever do so in a career.
DUBS DUBS
• Tennessee is 27-7 (.794) in dual doubles matches this spring. That winning percentage ranks second in the SEC behind only South Carolina's 30-6 (.833) mark.
MILESTONE TRACKER
• Diaz needs one more singles win to reach his 70th career overall singles victory.
• Tomas Rodriguez is one doubles victory shy of earning his 80th career overall doubles win.
QUICK HITTERS
• With three individuals (Monday, Shunsuke Mitsui and Emile Hudd) having played at the position, the Vols are 11-2 at the No. 1 singles slot this dual season.
• Hudd is riding a career-long doubles winning streak of six matches. Five of the six wins in the streak have been alongside Mitsui.
• In Tennessee's win over Vanderbilt Thursday, it reached 50 dual singles wins as a team this spring.
• Tennessee boasts a 49-5 (.907) record at home since the beginning of the 2020 dual season, including a 8-1 home mark in 2023.
• The Vols are 8-0 this year when collecting a point at the No. 5 singles spot.
• UT has won the doubles point in 13 of its 15 matches this season.
• Seven different Vols on UT's nine-man roster have clinched Tennessee's 10 wins this season, with Blaise Bicknell, Diaz and Hudd leading the team with two apiece. Martim Prata, Boris Kozlov, Monday and Mitsui have clinched one match each this year.
UP NEXT
Tennessee embarks on its first multi-match SEC road trip of the season next week, traveling south to face Alabama on Thursday, March 16, at 5 p.m. ET, before facing seventh-ranked Georgia in Athens on Saturday, March 18, at 4 p.m. ET.
For the most up-to-date information about the program, follow Tennessee men's tennis on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook.
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