WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - No. 75 North Florida men's tennis opens its season on the road at No. 11 Wake Forest and No. 44 Tennessee beginning on Saturday, Jan. 16 at the Demon Deacons. UNF then travels west to Knoxville to face off with the Vols on Monday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m.

OSPREY QUICK HITS
- Jack Findel-Hawkins and Yannick Zuern will look to keep their No. 4 ranking in doubles after posting an 8-3 record in the fall.
- The duo of Julian Bradley and John Deautriell are ranked No. 9 in the southeast. 
- Freshman Jonathan Deautriell and senior Julian Bradley led the team with six victories in singles tournament play during the fall.
- UNF returns six players from a season ago and deepened its roster with two spring additions in Sahil Deshmukh and Andrey Alawi.
- The Ospreys dropped the 2015 A-Sun championship match, 4-3, against FGCU.

SCOUTING WAKE FOREST
The Deacs made it to the NCAA Sweet 16 before falling to TCU. Three players - two returners - qualified for the NCAA Tournament with Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim advancing to the doubles Sweet 16. With seven fall competitions, Mansouri and Seraphim posted a team-best 12 victories each, while Maksim Kan and Keivon Tabrizi recorded 10 wins each. The Deacs are currently 64-57 in tournament play and 30-15 in doubles action.

WAKE FORMAT - The teams will play eight singles matches and four doubles matches. Each single match will count as a point, while doubles will be a combined one point for the winner.

SCOUTING TENNESSEE
The Vols are led by Igor Smelyanski who is ranked 75th in the latest ITA poll. He posted a 15-3 record in the fall and defeated No. 76 Marko Krickovic from Auburn and eventually advanced to the quarterfinals of the SEC Coaches Invitational. In doubles play he is ranked with Christian Schipanski after recording a 4-1 mark in tournament play. Schipanski is also ranked in doubles play with Luis Valero after a 6-1 mark in the fall. A season ago, Valero posted the Vols' second-most wins with 18 in the No. 4 spot, while Schipanski ranked as high as No. 95 last year. For the second straight year, Tennessee earned a trip to the NCAA Tennis Championship, but dropped a 4-2 decision to Stanford in the first round.

COACH QUOTES
"We are going to really like the Wake Forest format because we will get to see all of our guys compete and see where we are at," said head coach Mark Finnegan. "It will give us a great opportunity to prepare for the rest of the season."

"Wake and Tennessee are two very well coached teams with talented rosters," added Finnegan. "We are really looking forward to the challenges these teams present and looking forward to all of the individual and team opportunities."

NCAA RULES
The NCAA has adapted new rules this year for tennis, which will be in effect all year long. Doubles action will begin immediately with no warmup, so fans are encouraged to arrive on time for matches. In addition, each doubles match will be one set to six, with a tiebreaker occurring at 6-all. The team that wins two-of-three matches will secure the doubles point. Following a five-minute intermission, singles action will begin with each match worth one point towards the team score. All singles matches will be played to completion. There will be no-ad scoring in both singles and doubles action. 

Ranked Singles Players
No. 26 - Skander Mansouri (WF)
No. 75 - Igor Smelyanski (UT)
No. 103 - Jon Ho (WF)
No. 110 - Maksim Kan (WF)

Ranked Doubles Teams
No. 4 - Jack Findel-Hawkins/Yannick Zuern (UNF)
No. 23 - Luis Valero/Jack Schipanski (UT)
No. 25 - Skander Mansouri/Christian Seraphim (WF)
No. 27 - Maksim Kan/Romain Bogaerts (WF)
No. 51 - Jon Ho/Keivon Tabrizi (WF)
No. 54 - Igor Smelyanski/Jack Schipanski (UT)