(TEN) M Tennis vs LSU

Hate to say must win in the second conference match, but they have to right the ship fast.
Doubles about as tight as it gets, 7-6 7-5 6-6....but 1-0 UF

Braswell is back, they said leg injury so that could be anything from cramps to an ankle.

Same lineup, Tokac has disappeared from singles and doubles. Not sure what that means

Nefve down 0-3
Grant down 1-2
Nate down 1-2
Braswell up 3-1
Greif up 3-0
Orli up 4-0

It would appear LSU strength isn't bottom of the lineup

 

First sets wrapping

Nefve loses 1-6.....weird because this guy isn't special. Just lost to TAMU in straight sets playing #2
Grant playing better 5-3
Nate down 3-4 but seems to be competing
Braswell 6-1
Greif 6-1
Orli 6-1
Nice play from the bottom half

 

Nefve figures it out and blitzes the back end of the second set 6-3
Grant also settled in 6-4 4-1 and should wrap soon
Nate scratched out his first 7-5
Braswell down 3-4 in 2nd
Greif down 3-4 in his second
Orli was up up 4-0 but had to hang on 6-4 for UF's second point

 

Grant makes it 3-0, Braswell at 5-4 to close it out

 

Nefve wins his third
Nate goes 7-5 7-6
Greif loses his second set and a 10 point TB.....just don't know how much longer they can stick with him. I hate it, always been one of my faves but this year has been a struggle

 

Any chance we get to see Zgola soon? Curious, he seemed to have come in with a little higher expectations than Orlikowski
Tokac has been wildly inconsistent, but his upside sure seems like it's worth running him out there
I would keep Braswell at 4, 3 seemed to eat him up for now and Nate seemed to perform about the same regardless of 3 or 4.

SEC schedule extremely back loaded, 4 toughest matches look to be the last 4 of the season. Need to get win next few matches and figure some things out, hopefully steal one or two late and get a top 16 slot

 

Noticed the conference parity kicked in a little. Vols seem to be underachieving a bit, Bicknell is struggling in the #2 slot

 

Lol, I did find that interesting. Still trying to figure out why he sat last year
Vols with a legit #1 player in Monday, roster loaded with transfers including 5 post graduate guys and 2 regular seniors. They have one underclassman, a soph from Japan. Monday probably doesn't stay next year so they would return one player at best

 

Facing Bama today....
Won doubles point and got off to a nice start in singles....but lost momentum somewhat
Nefve wins easily in straight sets
Grant beaten pretty badly in staright sets
Bonetto wins his first set 6-3.....then wins 2 more games in the next 2 sets. Not good
Braswell loses first set 3-6, headed to second set TB
Orli wins first set 6-1, loses second set TB, now down 1-3 in third
Greif with a very nice straight set win

They blow this match will be worse than the Miss St debacle, somebody needs to stand up

 

Braswell had 4-5 set points in the tiebreak, lost them all and his match

Orli is down 3-5

Every guy on the court for Bama is a freshman or soph...and they have been obliterated against any good competition. Lost first two SEC matches 0-7 and 1-6.

 

Orli rebounds and gets to 6-5 and holds multiple match points. Loses them all and forced to a TB where he is dismantled by a fellow freshman.
UF loses at home to a younger team ranked 40 plus spots below UF. 1-2 in conference vs the easy part of the schedule, losing record overall. Not much else to say, awful day

 

This one is still hard for me to wrap my head around. Sometimes a loss like this is a wakeup call, sometimes it starts a spiral....guess we will see which. Clearly the Miss St loss wasn't enough to change the trajectory so I'm not overly optimistic with this bunch

 

Knowing Bama put all freshmen and sophs out there was the worst aspect for me.....AND they literally had not played a match outside of Alabama until this Friday....first 14 matches all in state. Go to So Car and get destroyed 0-7 on Friday and somehow beat UF in Gainesville 2 days later. Crazy