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Feb. 1, 2015 • Daytona Beach, Fla. • Crotty Tennis Complex All-Time Series Record: ERAU leads 4-0

AVE MARIA (0-1) RANK: NR

MATCH CENTRAL
No. 2 Embry-Riddle vs. Ave Maria
DATE: Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
CITY: Daytona Beach, Fla.
SITE: Crotty Tennis Complex
TIME: 12 p.m.
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SERIES: ERAU leads 4-0
LAST MEETING: ERAU def. Ave Maria, 9-0, April 5, 2014

FIRST SERVE
• Embry-Riddle is beginning its 27th season of competition
• Deni Zmak and Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios are ranked No. 1 doubles team in the country, and Zmak is ranked No. 1in singles
• Head Coach Dave Paschal is in his 11th season as the Eagles' head coach.
• Embry-Riddle and Ave Maria are meeting in men's tennis for the fifth time

ABOUT THE EAGLES
The Embry-Riddle men's tennis team will begin its 2015 campaign as the second-ranked team in the country according to the Men's Tennis Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll.
 
Head Coach Dave Paschal returns five letterwinners from last season's 21-4 squad, including the Deni Zmak, top-ranked singles player and Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios who, along with Zmak comprise the top doubles team in the nation Zmak repeated as the ITA/NAIA national singles champion in the fall to top the singles listing, and the junior partnered with Sanchez-Canamares to capture the national doubles crown as well as the 2014 ITA Super Bowl title.

ABOUT THE GYRENES
The Gyrenes are led by first-year head coach Curtis Allen. The Gyrenes, who begin their 2015 season on the road at SCAD Savannah on Saturday, tied for seventh in the 2014 league standings and wrapped up the season at 1-8.

THE ERAU-AMU SERIES
The Eagles and the Lady Gyrenes have faced each other in men's's tennis four times. All four meetngs have been won by the Eagles.

The Last Meeting
The top-ranked Embry-Riddle men's tennis team earned its fifth Sun Conference victory of the 2014 campaign with a 9-0 shutout of Ave Maria on April 5.

The matches at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles concluded fairly quickly with the top-ranked pair of Deni Zmak and Simon Felix downing Elias Zaghra and Cedric Duval 8-2, and Miguel Lopez Gomez and Luke de Caires blanking Theodore Pince and Daniel Pardo 8-0. The contest at No. 2 doubles lasted and hour and 33 minutes. ERAU's Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios and Patrick Besch erased a 4-1 deficit, winning four games in a row on the way to an 8-6 win over Daniel Spurny and Eric Peterson, giving the Eagles a 3-0 lead.

Besch and de Caires were the first two to finish their singles matches as Besch shutout Duval 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3 and de Caires scored the clincher with his 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Peterson on court four. Zmak and Lopez Gomez each posted shutouts on courts one and two, respectively, while Verberne got the second dual match win of his ERAU career with a 6-1, 6-1 defeat of Sadusky at the sixth spot.

The final match off the court was at No. 2 singles, where Sanchez-Canamares got the better of a match-up against Zaghra, downing the Gyrenes' No. 2 player 6-2, 6-3.

BY THE NUMBERS
380 - All-time wins in ERAU Men's Tennis history
196 - Eagle victories under guidance of Head Coach Dave Paschal
70 - Conference wins in program history
15 - NAIA National Tournament appearances
11 - Seasons of competition with Dave Paschal at the helm
11 - Regular season conference championships
7 – Individual singles national titles
6 – Conference tournament titles
4 – Individual doubles national titles
1 – NAIA National team title

EAGLES IN THE RANKINGS
The Eagles are ranked No. 2 in the NAIA Men's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 poll, marking the 10th consecutive season that ERAU Men's Tennis is ranked among the nation's top five in the preseason ratings. The Eagles have three student-athletes ranked among the nation's Top 50, including No. 1 Deni Zmak and No. 15 Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios. Zmak and Felix also comprise the top-ranked doubles team in the nation while Miguel Lopez Gomez and Luke de Caires are ranked 24th.