No. 6 Kentucky meets its third top-five opponent on the season Sunday when the Cats play host to second-ranked Florida. The match is set for 12 p.m. EST at UK?s Boone Tennis Center. Live scoring will be available at www.ukathletics.com.

Kentucky (14-3, 3-0) will do battle with another opponent besides the Gators on Sunday; UK has a bout with history, as well. Kentucky is 0-26 against Florida (6-1, 2-1). The Gators lost Friday at Vanderbilt and have not suffered consecutive regular-season losses since the 1985-86 season. The 4-3 loss in Nashville broke the Gators? 33 regular-season-match win streak and was their first regular-season defeat in two seasons.

Despite the historical context of Sunday?s match, Kentucky is as well equipped to earn its first win against Florida Sunday as it has ever been. The 2005 Kentucky squad is the first Wildcat team to have three student-athletes ranked in the top 50 of the ITA singles rankings and is the first Kentucky team to have two doubles pairs ranked in the top 15 at the same time.

Senior All-American Aibika Kalsarieva carries a No. 8 singles ranking, while sophomores Kim Coventry and Sarah Foster come in at Nos. 33 and 42, respectively. Kalsarieva and Foster own a No. 6 doubles ranking, while Coventry and sophomore Joelle Schwenk hold a No. 13 doubles ranking. Florida counters with 10th-ranked Jennifer Magley, 12th-ranked Zerene Reyes and 51st-ranked Boglarka Berecz. Reyes and Magley own a No. 10 doubles ranking, while freshmen Whitney Benik and Lolita Frangulyan hold a No. 5 ranking.

Kentucky is 0-2 against opponents currently ranked in the ITA top five, though the Cats defeated then-No. 3 Clemson last month at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. UK fell to No. 4 Northwestern in January and No. 1 Stanford in last month?s national-indoor finals.