Men’s Tennis Central: #8 Tennessee vs. #25 Ole Miss

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The eighth-ranked Tennessee men's tennis team gears up for its 25th match of the season, as it plays host to No. 25 Ole Miss Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.

Thursday's match will be streamed live online via SEC Network+ and the ESPN app, with Cracked Racquets providing whiparound coverage. 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.

The first 50 fans in attendance will receive a free Tennessee tennis coffee mug. Additionally, a $5 concession voucher will go to the first 100 fans Thursday.

LAST TIME OUT
Tennessee pummeled No. 5 South Carolina on the road Sunday, winning 6-1 with four straight-set singles victories.

SCOUTING OLE MISS
Tennessee (18-6, 8-2 SEC) and Ole Miss (16-6, 6-4 SEC) meet in a top-25 matchup Thursday, marking the 63rd meeting all-time between the schools. Tennessee leads the series, 34-28, dating to 1940. The Vols have won eight consecutive matches over the Rebels, a winning streak that began in 2017.

Ole Miss is 2-2 in road matches this season. Its current three-match winning streak consists of three home matches. Last season, the Vols rolled in Oxford over the Rebels, 6-1, in their second match of conference play.

VOLS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#2 – Johannus Monday
#27 – Emile Hudd
#118 – Shunsuke Mitsui

Doubles
#3 – Pat Harper/Johannus Monday
#42 – Emile Hudd/Shunsuke Mitsui

REBELS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#65 – Nikola Slavic

Doubles
#46 – Nikola Slavic/Lukas Engelhardt

WINNING IN THE 865
• Since the beginning of the 2020 dual season, Tennessee boasts a 54-5 (.915) record in home matches, including a 13-1 home mark in 2023.

DUBS DUBS
• In 24 matches this year, UT has won the doubles point 21 times. In its 90 matches since the start of the 2021 dual season, Tennessee has won the doubles point 70 times for a .778 clip in that span.

JO MOMENTUM
• Johannus Monday, a two-time ITA Singles All-American, is a combined 31-5 in dual singles and doubles matches this spring. At 16-2 in singles and 15-3 on the doubles courts, 25 of those 31 total victories are at the No. 1 lineup spot (13-2 at No. 1 singles and 12-3 at No. 1 doubles).

HUDD EYES THE CENTURY MARK
• With his doubles win with Shunsuke Mitsui vs. South Carolina Sunday, Emile Hudd collected the 96th overall doubles win of his career. Over half of those wins (53-of-96) have come in Tennessee orange. Hudd earned 43 doubles victories while playing at Oklahoma State. Hudd has earned back-to-back SEC Player of the Week awards, as of Wednesday.

LIVING IN THE RANKINGS
• With the ITA's April 11 update of its singles and doubles rankings, Tennessee has had either a top-10 singles acclaim or a top-10 doubles pair in 22 of the past 23 dual-season rankings updates, dating to March 24, 2021. The Vols not only have each this week, but a pair of top-three rankings with Monday standing at the No. 2 singles ranking and the duo of Monday and Pat Harper coming in at No. 3 in the doubles rankings.

HISTORY IN SIGHT
• Harper, with 91 career overall doubles wins at Tennessee, is four 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 would become just the ninth Vol to ever do so in a career.

UP NEXT
Tennessee travels west for its regular-season finale at Arkansas Sunday. First serve is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET.

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Players Mentioned

Pat Harper

Emile Hudd

Shunsuke Mitsui

Johannus Monday

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