#18 Clemson Men’s Tennis will play at South Carolina Sunday

CLEMSON, SC March 2, 2013 — The 18^th-ranked Clemson men’s tennis team will play at South Carolina Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at the Carolina Tennis Center in Columbia, SC.

The Clemson men’s team has a 9-1 record overall this season and is coming off of a 5-2 upset win of #21-ranked Auburn on February 22. Last week, the Tigers were ranked 51^st as a team and jumped 33 spots in this week’s poll.

This is the highest that the Tigers have been ranked since April 4, 2006 when Clemson was ranked 18^th. Over the years, Clemson has been ranked in the ITA top 25 a total of 136 times. The Tigers have been ranked at the position of 18^th four times.

Clemson’s number-one singles player Yannick Maden is ranked 57^th according to the ITA singles poll. This season he has a 14-4 record overall in singles and an 8-1 mark in dual matches. The doubles team of Yannick Maden and his brother Dominique Maden isranked 20^th. The duo has a 15-3 record overall and a 5-0 mark in dual matches.

South Carolina has a 9-5 record overall this season. Texas A&M defeated the Gamecocks on Friday afternoon in an SEC match. South Carolina is ranked 43^rd in this week’s poll.

The match will be the 105^th meeting between the two schools on the tennis courts. The series began in 1925. South Carolina leads the overall series 61-41-2.