The Florida men’s tennis team earned its first win away from the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex this season with a 4-2 win over the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens on Sunday. The No. 32 Gators needed four-straight singles wins to dig themselves out of an early 0-2 deficit to earn the win over the No. 34-ranked program.
The doubles team got off to an uncharacteristically slow start, dropping sets two and three to earn the loss. Aidan Kim and Nate Bonetto put up a dominant 6-3 set on court one, but Georgia’s Mahjoob-Perez Peña tandem set the tone for the rest of the doubles match by storming back from 4-2 to take court three 6-4, thus earning a 1-0 lead heading into singles.
Kevin Edengren collected his second crucial court-six win for Florida in as many matches while Adhithya Ganesan returned to the Gators’ singles lineup for the first time since March 8 to knot the teams up at 2-2. Aidan Kim posted the most impressive comeback of the day on court two, dropping his first set, 6-1, but turned things around with a five-game winning run to claim set two, 6-1, before holding serve to win set three, 7-5.
Sophomore Tanapatt Nirundorn secured the fourth point for Florida with a win in his own three-set battle on court five, taking his match 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, to secure the victory for the Orange and Blue.
The Gators return to Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex on Friday, April 5, against the Vanderbilt Commodores at 5 p.m. ET.
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