CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Ben Shelton rallied to beat San Diego’s August Holmgren and provides Florida back-to-back males’s singles nationwide championships and Peyton Stearns of Texas took the ladies’s title with a straight-sets win over Stanford’s Connie Ma on Saturday on the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex.
Stearns, a sophomore and the No. 2 seed, avenged one among solely two season losses when she beat Ma 6-3, 6-2. The unseeded freshman beat Stearns 7-6(7), 2-6, 6-2 in February because the Cardinal beat Texas 5-2. Stearns, who dropped only one set out of 11 on the championships, accomplished her season 33-2, together with her different loss in opposition to Virginia’s Emma Navarro as Texas — which gained its second consecutive girls’s staff title final Sunday — beat the Cavaliers 4-2 within the quarterfinals of NCAA staff competitors.
Stearns gained this system’s first singles title and have become the primary Texas girl to make a finals look since 1995.
Second-ranked Shelton defeated No. 6 Holmgren 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The Gators grew to become the primary males’s tennis program since 2004-05 to have completely different opponents win back-to-back titles. Florida’s Sam Riffice defeated Daniel Rodriques of South Carolina 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 to win the 2021 title.
Cleeve Harper and Richard Ciamarra of Texas beat Ohio State’s Matej Vocel and Robert Cash 5-7, 6-4, 10-7 within the males’s doubles championship.
Top-seeded Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller of N.C. State beat Miami’s Daevenia Achong and Eden Richardson, 6-2, 7-5 to win the Wolfpack’s first girls’s doubles title.
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