From VirginiaSports.com
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The No. 7 Virginia men’s tennis team (26-5) advanced to the semifinals of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Tennis Team Championship with a 4-1 victory against No. 2 Florida (26-3) in the 2022 NCAA Men’s Tennis Team Championship being held at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Ill.
The Cavaliers will take on No. 6 Tennessee (26-7) on Saturday, May 21 at 2 p.m. ET, playing for a place in Sunday’s championship match.
Virginia won the doubles point and picked up victories on singles courts two, three and five to take down the reigning NCAA Champions. Sophomore Jeffrey von der Schulenburg clinched the victory for the Cavaliers in a match that ended at 12:24 a.m. CT.
Florida had an early edge in doubles, winning 6-1 on court three. Sophomore Chris Rodesch and grad student Bar Botzer evened things with a 6-4 victory against the No. 5 doubles team of Sam Riffice and Ben Shelton. Court two went to a tiebreaker with senior Ryan Goetz and sophomore Iñaki Montes winning it 7-3 to take the point and put UVA ahead 1-0.
The match went into a lightning delay 1:21 into the contest, midway through the first singles sets. Right after clearing the stands, a rainstorm came through and drenched the courts. With two matches being played simultaneously on the outdoors courts of the complex and only having six indoor courts at the facility, it was decided that the Ohio State and Michigan match would move to the indoor courts and Virginia/Florida would either resume play outdoors when the courts were dry or go on the indoors courts after the other match finished. At 10:15, the outdoor courts were dry enough for the teams to begin warm-ups with play resuming at 10:45 p.m., 2:24 minutes after it had been halted.
Florida tied the match with a straight-set victory on court four. Montes put UVA back ahead with a 7-5, 6-4 victory against reigning NCAA Singles Champion Sam Riffice. Senior Gianni Ross battled to a 7-5, 7-5 victory on court five to make it a 3-1 score.
On court three, von der Schulenburg had dropped his first set 6-2 against Duarte Vale. In the second set, the two tied 6-6 with von der Schulenburg edging Vale 7-5 in the breaker to force a third set. The UVA sophomore took the decider 6-3 to clinch the match.
On the two remaining courts, Botzer was serving down 6-5 against…
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