Tallahassee, MARCH 1, 2014 – The No. 45 USF men's tennis team nearly pulled off an upset of No. 36 Florida State falling 4-3 Saturday afternoon at the Scott Speicher Tennis Center.

The Bulls got on the board first picking up the doubles points after taking two-of-three matches.  No. 35 Oliver Pramming and Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz won the first match 8-5 over Marco Nunez and Grayson Goldin.  FSU took the third doubles spot before No. 29 Roberto Cid and Sasha Gozun bested No. 23 Dominic Cotrone and Blake Davis in a tiebreak, 8-7 (6) at first doubles.

Cid extended the lead for USF winning at first singles easily over Cotrone 6-2, 6-2.  Gonzalez-Muniz also earned a nice victory for the Bulls besting his opponents Michael Rinaldi 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) at the fifth singles spot.

Oliver Pramming won the first set at second singles but eventually fell to Davis 1-6, 6-0, 6-1.

USF finally returns to their home courts on Tuesday, March 4 when it welcomes Tulane to the USF Varsity Tennis Courts.  The match is set to get underway at 2:00 p.m. beginning with doubles action followed shortly by singles play.
 

Singles competition

No. 1 - #81 Roberto Cid (USF) def. Dominic Cotrone (FSU) 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 - Blake Davis (FSU) def. Oliver Pramming (UFS) 1-6, 6-0, 6-1
No. 3 - Cristian Gonzalez Mendez (FSU) def. Sasha Gozun (USF) 6-4, 6-4
No. 4 - Marco Nunez (FSU) def. Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (USF) 6-1, 6-4
No. 5 - Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz (USF) def. Michael Rinaldi (FSU) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
No. 6 - Grayson Goldin (FSU) def. Federico Sabogal (USF) 6-3, 6-3

Doubles competition

No. 1 - #29 Cid/Gozun (USF) def. #23 Cotrone/Davis (FSU) 8-7 (6)
No. 2 - #35 Pramming/Gonzalez-Muniz (USF) def. Nunez/Goldin (FSU) 8-5
No. 3 - Gonzalez Mendez/Rinaldi (FS) def. Dzib/ Kalyuzhnyy (USF) 8-5