{"id":20150,"date":"2025-02-14T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=20150"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T23:12:13","slug":"mens-tennis-team-has-strong-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2025\/02\/14\/mens-tennis-team-has-strong-start-to-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s tennis team has strong start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20151\" style=\"width:573px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Tennis_10-29-24_JeffMontgomery1-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Kelly Mahawanniarachchi\/\/ Photo by Jeff Montgomery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harding\u2019s men\u2019s tennis started their season off strong with a victory over 23rd-ranked Drury 5-2 on Feb. 7 at the Cooper Tennis Center in Springfield, Missouri. They also achieved a 5-0 win over Southwest Baptist University on the same day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head coach David Redding said the wins are historic for the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur opening weekend in Springfield, Missouri, against perennial national powers Drury and Southwest Baptist University proved historic for our program,\u201d Redding said. \u201cTo knock off both teams on their home courts, defeating Drury 5-2 and SBU 5-0, should increase our confidence as we move forward playing other nationally ranked opponents, but keep us hungry for improvement to reach our team goals.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophomore Florian Gayme was pleased with the way he competed. He secured doubles<s> <\/s>wins at Drury and Southwest Baptist with his partner, Cian Mikkelsen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gayme said the win meant a lot to both him and the team. He also said he was pleased with the way the team has bonded over the past few months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe season started well for the boy\u2019s team,\u201d Gayme said. \u201cWe won our first two games. I was pleasantly surprised by the energy brought by the team, our new players integrated very well and it was immediately felt in these games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophomore Caleb Folse also performed well in both matches. While he won his doubles match at Southwest Baptist with his partner Edoardo D\u2019Arrigo, his singles match went unfinished as the team clinched the match before Folse could complete his match. He finished the singles match with a 5-2 lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Folse said the two wins give the team motivation and are an indication of the hard work they have put in during practice.&nbsp;\u201cWe beat two really good teams on the road to start the season, and all the guys seem to be playing really well right now,\u201d Folse said. \u201cI think it gives the entire team some excitement and motivation going into the upcoming matches this weekend.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Kelly Mahawanniarachchi\/\/ Photo by Jeff Montgomery Harding\u2019s men\u2019s tennis started their season off strong with a victory over 23rd-ranked Drury 5-2 on Feb. 7 at the Cooper Tennis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20167,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions\/20167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}