Virginia tennis rolls on

The Virginia men's tennis team took down Georgia Tech, 6-1, at the Snyder Tennis Courts in Charlottesville on Saturday, a match I attended about 70 minutes of. I took photos, too, some of which are shown below.

A view of the action on the top 3 courts during singles.

College tennis matches typically take a good while to complete. Doubles matches are first, where three teams from one school compete against three teams from the other school. The matches are one set each and first to eight games wins.

Virginia won the doubles point over the Yellow Jackets easily, 8-2 and 8-1. The team that wins two out of three in doubles takes the doubles point. That gave Virginia a 1-0 overall lead.

No. 3 singles player Mitchell Frank
gets ready to serve.
Frank won his match, 6-3, 6-2.

From there, the two squads face off in singles, played by the top six seeds from each team. Sets are won by the first player to six games and a match is won when someone wins two of three sets.

Virginia took five of the six singles matches to win going away. Only Alex Domijan at No. 2 singles lost his match. Jarmere Jenkins, Mitchell Frank, Ryan Shane, Mac Stylinger, and Julen Uriguen all won their matches in straight sets.

Virginia has now won 101 straight ACC matches and has wrapped up its regular-season home slate. The squad finishes up the regular season this weekend in the Sunshine State, taking on Florida State on Saturday and Miami on Monday. But the Wahoos will likely host a regional round or two in the NCAA tournament if you want to get out and catch them in person. As someone who watches a decent amount of tennis on TV (the slams), I can tell you it is crazy to see really good tennis players playing up close. The speed and movement of the balls when they get hit are incredible.