MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The West Florida Men's Tennis team started the 2021 Gulf South Conference Tournament on a strong note Thursday, taking down Montevallo 4-0 in the Quarterfinals. This win advances the No. 2 seeded Argonauts to the Semifinals of the tournament where they will face off with the No. 3 seed Delta State tomorrow.

From today's action, West Florida pulled out a hard-fought doubles point winning in a third-set tiebreaker from the No. 1 position to clinch the lone point.

Serdar Bojadjiev and partner Lluis Miralles Miro got the Argonauts started in doubles winning 6-3 from the No. 2 position. Gabriel Nery and Salvador Bandeira, who didn't pair up when these two faced off last week, pulled out a thriller from the No. 1 position winning 7-6 (12-10) to secure West Florida's fourteenth straight doubles victory.

In the singles portion of today's match, West Florida secured victories from the No. 1, No. 5, and No. 6 positions to see the Argonauts advance further into the tournament.

Bojadjiev picked up his second consecutive victory over Dylan Valentine of Montevallo winning 6-3, 6-2 today from the No. 1 position. From the No. 5 position, Nery won in straight sets over Gavin Salton coming out with a 6-0, 7-5 victory in his match. Lastly, Miralles Miro won 6-0, 6-4 from the No. 6 position to remain unbeaten on the season.

While the remaining three matches all went unfinished, the Argonauts either held leads or were making second-set comebacks in each.

Nicolas Lecoutre had almost wrapped up his match from the No. 2 position as he was ahead 6-2, 6-5 when the match concluded. Juan Cabrera dropped the first set from the No. 3 position but rallied back in set two to force a decisive third set. Bandeira, like Cabrera, dropped set number one but held a 4-0 lead in set two as action concluded.

Information for the Semifinal – West Florida now advances in the GSC Tournament and will take on #10 Delta State tomorrow in a Semifinal match. First serve is once again scheduled for 2:30 PM from Montgomery, Alabama and as always tune into GoArgos.com and UWF Men's Tennis social media pages for updates and information from tomorrow's match.

Scouting Delta State – The Statesmen enter Friday's matchup as the No. 3 seed and ranked No. 10 overall after going 14-3 during the regular season. In their opening match, Delta State took down Lee 4-1 to advance to the semifinals.

This will be the third meeting between these two this season as they squared off on Feb. 26, from the ITA National Team Indoor Championship, and again on Mar. 26 from Cleveland, Mississippi. In both of these matches, the Argonauts came out victorious winning 4-0 in the first matchup and 5-2 in the second.

Friday's winner will move to the Championship match scheduled for Saturday where they will face off with the winner of the Valdosta State and either West Alabama or Auburn Montgomery match which is tomorrow also.

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