Men's Tennis vs. 10th-ranked Miss. State to Resume Monday
Carolina and Mississippi State have agreed to resume play on Monday at 1 p.m. ET.
COLUMBIA, S.C.- The South Carolina men’s tennis match against 10th-ranked Mississippi State, was was suspended due to rainy weather conditions on Friday and Saturday in the Columbia area, will resume on Monday at 1 p.m. ET, at the Carolina Tennis Center. Play was haulted less than an hour into singles action on Friday night and Saturday’s restart was delayed due to persistent rain in the area.
The Gamecocks (10-2) play No. 40 Ole Miss on Sunday at 1 p.m. as originally scheduled while Mississippi State will head to Gainesville, Fla., to face Florida on Sunday afternoon.
Mississippi State held a 1-0 advantage in the match at the time of the weather stoppage, after taking wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 pairs on Friday.
South Carolina held leads on three of six singles courts at the time of the stoppage. No. 12 Paul Jubb had taken the first set over No. 3 Nuno Borges, 6-4 while No. 88 Daniel Rodrigues took the first set over No. 102 Giovanni Oradini, 6-2.
DOUBLES RECAP:
Raphael Lambling and Paul Jubb earned the first ranked doubles win of the season, taking out the seventh-ranked pair in the nation at the No. 1 spot. Carolina would drop the doubles point for just the fourth time this season after suffering a tight 6-4 loss from the No. 3 pair.
Lambling and Jubb exerted their force early in the doubles session, using back-to-back breaks to go ahead 4-1. The Euro tandem then won deuce point to hold at 5-1 and eventually finished off the seventh-ranked pair of Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic with a 6-2 win.
Carolina later fell 6-2 at the No. 2 pair as Beau Pelletier and Daniel Rodrigues trailed 5-4 in the third and final doubles match. Rodrigues and Pelletier fell behind love-30 in the next game, however, and were unable to hold off Mississppi State’s Gregor Ramskogler and Trevor Foshey who finished off the 6-4 win to give the Bulldogs the doubles point.
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