{"id":75663,"date":"2019-05-01T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=75663"},"modified":"2019-05-01T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T02:02:13","slug":"ole-miss-mens-tennis-earns-26th-straight-ncaa-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-mens-tennis-earns-26th-straight-ncaa-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis Earns 26th Straight NCAA Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis<\/strong> will head to <strong>Los Angeles <\/strong>after earning their 26th consecutive trip to the postseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the fourth straight postseason Ole Miss has found itself in <strong>California<\/strong> for the first and second rounds. Last season, Ole Miss upset national No. 4 seed <strong>Stanford<\/strong> in <strong>Palo Alto<\/strong> to return to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rebels earned the three seed, and will join <strong>Western Athletic Conference Champions Grand Canyon<\/strong>, No. 23 <strong>Oklahoma State<\/strong>, and hosts No. 13 <strong>UCLA<\/strong> in the four-team first and second round setup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss will face the <strong>Cowboys<\/strong> in a rematch from this past February, when the Rebels down then-No. 20 <strong>OSU<\/strong> for their first ranked win of the 2019 campaign in a thrilling 4-3 upset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hansson_Toby14.jpg?resize=300%2C408\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75665\"\/><figcaption>Ole Miss Tennis Coach Toby Hansson.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe\u2019re excited\nto play in the NCAA Tournament again, and I think the team is excited about it.\nWe\u2019re definitely ready to go,\u201d head coach <strong>Toby Hansson<\/strong> said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new\nmatch with Oklahoma State. We\u2019re familiar with them, but it\u2019s a neutral site\nand we\u2019ll be outside so things will be different. It\u2019s an important match, so\nwe have to do the important things and get the big points, and that will take\nus a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss won seven of its final 10 contests during\nthe spring and tallied four Top 25 victories, downing No. 16\/18 <strong>Alabama<\/strong>\non two separate occasions, and No. 22 <strong>Georgia<\/strong> in addition to the victory\nover OSU.&nbsp; The Rebs catapulted to as high\nas No. 25 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association\u2019s rankings this season, and\nboasted multiple players on the singles and doubles rankings lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Ole Miss is led by two-time All-SEC selection <strong>Tim Sandkaulen<\/strong>, and former NCAA participants in seniors <strong>Fabian Fallert<\/strong> and <strong>Filip Kraljevic<\/strong>. Fallert was critical this season, clinching six wins including the victory against Oklahoma State, earning SEC Player of the Week plaudits for his performance. The first and second rounds of the 2019 NCAA Tournament take place May 3-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis will head to Los Angeles after earning their 26th consecutive trip to the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":75664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13761,4539,4063,7067,1182,8143,11272,655],"class_list":["post-75663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-13761","tag-los-angeles","tag-ncaa","tag-ole-miss","tag-tennis","tag-toby-hansson","tag-tournament","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-OleMiss-Tennis.jpg?fit=1053%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}