TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State men’s tennis freshmen Alex Bulte and Youcef Rihane were named ACC Men’s Doubles Team of the Week after a perfect weekend against Virginia and Virginia Tech. It is the first ACC honor for both players and the first doubles award for FSU this season. The duo won on court three in both matches, helping Florida State earn the doubles point both days. Bulte and Rihane swept the doubles pair from No. 8 Virginia 6-0 and took down Virginia Tech 6-1 for a dominating weekend. Friday’s match was only the second time Virginia lost the doubles point to an ACC opponent this season. “I'm really pleased that Alex and Youcef won the ACC Doubles Team of the Week,” head coach Dwayne Hultquist said. “They're really improved, and I think it comes back to how hard they've been working at practice. They won in dominant fashion this weekend over some very good teams.” Bulte and Rihane are now 6-2 overall, 4-2 in the ACC, and on a three-match win
Tallahassee, FL – Fresh off a new Top 25 ranking and playing without their top line player, the 24th-ranked FSU men’s tennis team pulled out a 4-3 win over Troy Friday night. The Seminoles won the doubles point for the 10th time in 11 tries and Andy Petrovic clinched the match for FSU, which improved to 9-2. “Troy played a great match,” said FSU Head Coach Dwayne Hultquist. “When non-ACC schools come in to play us we know we are going to get their best effort. We held out Loris today due to injury and we got the chance to play some younger guys.” Alex Bulte and Youcef Rihane got the Seminoles off to a fast start in doubles on court one with a 6-2 victory. With Loris Pourroy out for the match, Sebastian Arcila didn’t miss a beat on line one partnering with Petrovic. With doubles tied 1-1, the pair secured the 1-0 lead for the Seminoles with a 6-3 victory. Rihane staked FSU to a 2-0 lead as singles got underway. The first-year Seminole won 6-2, 6-1 on line four. Troy trimm
Tallahassee, FL – Florida State’s Loris Pourroy recorded his biggest victory of the season Friday night. The Seminole junior took down the nation’s 50th-ranked singles player in straight sets as the Seminoles rallied back after trailing 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 to beat UCF 4-3 and move to 7-2 on the season. Coming into 2022, UCF was ranked No. 11 in the ITA Preseason Poll. Five of the Knights' first six matches this spring came against #3 Florida, #8 Georgia, #10 Wake Forest, #14 Stanford and #24 NC State so the Seminoles knew they were facing a team much better than its 1-5 record Friday night. After falling behind early on all three doubles courts, the Seminoles fought back to get to 5-5 and 4-5 on courts one and three but were unable to complete the comeback dropping the doubles point 2-0. In singles, Pourroy and Andreja Petrovic led the way with strong performances at one and three. Pourroy was first off with an impressive 6-3, 6-2 win over the ITA’s No. 50 singles player. Wi
Tallahassee, FL – The Florida State men’s tennis team moved into the winner’s bracket at the ITA Kickoff Weekend regional hosted by the University of Florida with a 4-0 win over UNC Wilmington Saturday. The Seminoles moved to 6-0 on the season and will now play the winner of the Florida/Princeton match tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. After dropping the first doubles match on line three, the Noles stormed back taking matches on lines one and two to secure the doubles point and a 1-0 lead. Andy Petrovic and Youcef Rihane evened things at 1-1 with a 6-3 win. Loris Pourroy and Sebastian Arcila then clinched the doubles point with a 6-3 win of their own. Playing indoors, only three courts were available so Pourroy, Petrovic and Arcila looked to close out the match and that’s just what they did. Arcila was the first off on three with a 6-3, 6-2 win. Petrovic followed putting FSU up 3-0 winning 6-2, 6-4 on line two. Pourroy wrapped it up for the Seminoles moving to 5-0 on the season with a 7-6
BOX SCORE Tallahassee, FL – The Florida State men’s tennis team, playing its third match in just over 24 hours, was challenged all afternoon by Stetson Saturday. The Seminole fell behind 1-0 in doubles before taking that point and then started singles off 1-1 before pulling away from the Hatters (1-2) with three straight wins to move to 5-0 on the year. “Stetson did a great job,” said FSU Head Coach Dwayne Hultquist. “They played hard. Their guys really competed and battled the whole way through. There were three or four opportunities we had to extend leads and we didn’t. They hung in the match because of that. As a young team, that is something we can really grow from. When you have opportunities to put a team away or set points, you have to take advantage of those. It was good we got a win while we learned that but it shows we got more work to go to get those to close them out.” For the first time in 2022, the Noles fell behind in doubles dropping the match on court th