FORT MYERS/BOCA RATON, Fla. (March 17, 2025) – The ETSU men's tennis team will bring its six-match winning streak to Florida this week with matches at Florida Gulf Coast and FAU. ETSU will face FGCU on Tuesday at 10 a.m. and will clash with the Owls on Wednesday at 5 p.m. Tuesday's match will have live stats available for following HERE.
 
Like last season, the Bucs have battled back from a slow start to reel off several wins in a row. ETSU has not lost a match since February 21 at Elon and started SoCon play with back-to-back wins over UNC Greensboro and Wofford. Thanks to the six consecutive wins, ETSU is now over the .500 mark overall (7-4) and in singles action (37-26). Pedro Cressoni and Carlos Gonzales pace the Bucs with eight singles victories a piece this spring.
 
Florida Gulf Coast enters Tuesday's matchup with the Bucs with a 6-11 record. Prior to a 5-2 loss to Stetson on Sunday, the Eagles were on a three-match winning streak with victories over Furman (5-2), VCU (5-2) and UT Arlington (4-3).
 
FAU, meanwhile, is 5-7 in 2025. The Owls have won four straight contests entering this week's action with victories over UTSA (4-3), South Alabama (5-2), Penn (4-3) and VCU (5-2). A player to watch for FAU is John Bernard, who was ranked No. 106 in the latest ITA Singles Rankings.
 
ETSU is 9-0 all-time against Florida Gulf Coast. The Bucs and Eagles used to be former conference rivals in the Atlantic Sun but have not met in a match since 2018. FAU and ETSU have split the six previous meetings between these two programs. The Owls knocked off the Bucs, 5-2, last March and ETSU last defeated FAU in 2017, 4-2.
 
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