No. 29 Bulls Earn No. 3 Seed in AAC Tournament
MATCHUP: South Florida versus Tulsa
WHEN: Thursday, April 22 at 12 p.m.
LOCATION: Lake Nona, Fla.
TAMPA, Fla., April 21, 2021 – The University of South Florida men's tennis team begins its trek in the American Athletic Conference Tournament with a duel against No. 39 Tulsa. USF earned the third seed for the AAC tournament, and will take on the sixth-seeded Tulsa team. UCF was awarded the first-round bye with the No. 1 seed and will meet the winner of No. 4 seed Memphis and No. 5 seed Wichita State. No. 2 seed Tulane battles No. 7 seed SMU and the victor will play either South Florida or Tulsa in the semifinals.
The Bulls finished out the regular season on a high note after wins over No. 32 Memphis, 4-2, and No. 39 Tulsa, 4-1. Success in singles from No. 37
Jakub Wojcik (Delray Beach, Fla.), No. 62
Chase Ferguson (Melbourne, Australia),
Ivan Yatsuk (Minsk, Belarus), and Sergio Gomez-Montesa (Valencia, Spain) secured both matches.
USF is 17-1 in the AAC Championship, the lone loss coming from a 3-4 clash against Tulane in 2018. Due to the 2020 championships being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bulls remain defending champions entering this year's tournament.
Scouting Tulsa
The No. 39 Golden Hurricanes finished the regular season with an 11-11 record after suffering three conference losses in their final road stretch.
USF defeated Tulsa in their last matchup, 4-1 and leads the all-time record against the Golden Hurricanes, 8-4. Tulsa's lineup includes one singles and doubles tandem in the national rankings; No. 82 Kody Pearson and No. 51 Connor Di Marco/Kody Pearson. No. 37 Wojcik defeated No. 82 Pearson, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 and No. 62 Ferguson bested Di Marco, 6-3, 6-3 over the weekend.
Quotable
Head coach Ashley Fisher on the tournament….
"We have gone through a lot in the last year with many people working hard and sacrificing so we could compete. Now it's time to honor those efforts and sacrifices by leaving everything we have on the court. This has been a special time of the year for our program for many years and I feel as good about this team as any in the past"
About Men's Tennis
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