ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy men's tennis team will be back in the Tose Family Tennis Center on Saturday as the Mids (6-6) are slated to play host to Richmond (3-2) at 10 a.m. and Delaware (3-1) at 2 p.m.
Richmond and Delaware will face each other Friday night in Annapolis before playing the Mids on Saturday.
Live Results
Links to live results from both matches can be found at NavySports.com.
Navy Review
Navy split six matches last weekend, winning three at home and losing three on the road. The Mids registered victories over Hofstra (7-0), Saint Joseph's (5-2) and Wagner (7-0) and dropped matches to Penn (7-0), James Madison (7-0) and Youngstown State (6-1).
Gavin Segraves (Sr., Charlottesville, Va.) posted a 6-0 record in his matches last weekend as he won three singles matches in straight sets and teamed with
Christian Pumpelly (St., Atlanta, Ga.) for three doubles wins in which the pair lost only seven games. He was selected as this week's Patriot League Player of the Week for his efforts.
Richmond Preview
The Spiders opened the season with a 7-0 loss to the nation's No. 1 ranked team Virginia and most recently posted a 4-0 victory over Army.
Richmond compiled an 11-11 record a year ago and finished Atlantic 10 Conference play with a 3-3 record. The fifth-seeded Spiders lost a 4-1 decision to fourth-seeded Davidson in the quarterfinals of the A10 Tournament.
Navy holds a 25-14 advantage in the all-time series with Richmond. The teams have met in all but two seasons (2009, 2011) since 2000. The Spiders posted a 4-3 victory over the Mids last season. That was the sixth time in the last 11 matches in which the final score was 4-3.
Delaware Preview
The Blue Hens have notched 6-1 wins over Bucknell and Villanova this year and suffered their lone loss by the same score to Penn State.
Delaware ended the 2022 season with a 15-9 record and completed the Colonial Athletic Association regular season with a 4-0 record. The Blue Hens were seeded third in the conference tournament and advanced to the semifinal round of the postseason where they lost, 4-1, to second-seeded UNCW.
Navy and Delaware have meet 14 times in the last 16 seasons. The Mids defeated the Blue Hens by the score of 6-1 last season to improve to 14-0 in the series.
Up Next
Navy travels to Florida for a pair of matches on Sat., Feb. 18. The Mids will face Rollins at 11 a.m. in Winter Park and play Air Force at 5 p.m. at the USTA National Campus in Orlando. The Navy and Air Force men's and women's will both be competing in the match that will be streamed live on ESPN+.
