EDINBURG – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) men's tennis team returns home to host Lamar University at the Orville Cox Tennis Center on Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
Last Time Out
UTRGV (3-4) dropped a tight match to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi after falling 3-4 at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
 
UTRGV jumped out to the early 1-0 lead as they won a pair of doubles matches to take the point. The duo of Dennis Boisseau and Clément Sarradin opened doubles with a 6-3 win over William Mottet and David Ambrozic on court two.
 
The team of Koby Jansen and Yehonatan Kaufman clinched the point for UTRGV after defeating Francois and Okkie Kellerman 6-4 on court one.
 
In singles, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi won on courts four, three and five to take the 3-1 lead when Jansen put another UTRGV point on the board with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Mottet on court one.
 
The Islanders clinched the win with a win on court six before Boisseau added a win on court two to close out the scoring in the match.
 
Scouting Lamar
Lamar is 1-5 heading into its match with UTRGV. Lamar is coming off of a 1-6 loss to South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Its lone win of the season came against Jacksonville State.
 
Lamar is 9-26 in singles play this season and has three players with two victories to their names in Sebastian Santibanez, Benny Schweizer, and Arthur Serafim.
 
In doubles, Lamar is 1-12 on the year with Santibanez and Logan Powell the only duo to win a doubles match.
 
Lamar has had four matches postponed this season due to weather.
 
The All-Time Series
UTRGV is 38-31-3 all-time against Lamar in a series that dates back to 1958.
 
Both of these teams met up last season and it was Lamar who came away with the 6-1 win in Beaumont.
 
The last time UTRGV defeated Lamar came back on April 10, 2010 when it won 6-1 at home as part of the Southland Conference.
 
Globetrotters
UTRGV currently has nine student-athletes on the roster representing five different countries, including the France (Dennis Boisseau, Clément Sarradin), United States (Jake Davidson, Zane Kohrs, Michael Loyd), Australia (Koby Jansen, Elliot Johnstone), Israel (Yehonatan Kaufman), and Argentina (Mateo Schmit).
 
Next Up
UTRGV will be back in action on Tuesday, February 27 when it hosts Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at the Orville Cox Tennis Center at 2 p.m. as part of the South Texas Showdown, presented by Navy Army Community Credit Union.

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