No. 19 Kentucky (16-7, 5-4) looks to rebound from a tough loss to No. 9 Georgia when the Cats play host to No. 25 Tennessee (10-6, 5-4) Sunday at UK?s Boone Tennis Complex. The match is set for 1 p.m. EDT. Live scoring updates will be available at ukathletics.com.
Seniors Matt Emery, Tigran Martirosyan and Jesse Witten will play their final SEC home matches Sunday against the Vols, though Kentucky also will play host to Indiana State and Morehead State in non-conference action on Tuesday, Apr. 12. Witten has captured 15 of his last 16 singles contests and owns an 8-1 record in league play. Martirosyan has won his last five singles contests. Martirosyan and Witten already have turned in quite a week of doubles play after defeating Illinois? eighth-ranked duo of Ryler Deheart and G.D. Jones and Georgia?s second-ranked tandem of John Isner and Antonio Ruiz.
The Vols come to Lexington after suffering a 4-3 defeat at Vanderbilt on Friday. Tennessee features 54th-ranked Mark Dietrich, who likely will match up with UK?s Witten at the No. 1 singles slot. UT?s Ben Rogers and Ockie Oosthuizen own a No. 6 national doubles ranking.
Kentucky rallied for a 4-3 win over the Vols a season ago in Knoxville.