The #8 seeded Kentucky Wildcats (24-7) defeated #9 Wake Forest (33-7) on Saturday at the Hillary J. Boone Tennis Center, 4-2, to advance to the NCAA Men’s Tennis Quarterfinals. Captain Millen Hurrion, a 5th-year senior from England, won the clinching match for the ‘Cats. Kentucky is in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2011.
Playing in front of a large home crowd, the ‘Cats dropped the doubles point but captured five of the six first sets in singles and never looked back. Wake Forest, a traditional power that has made two of the last three NCAA Team Finals (winning in 2018), gave UK quite a challenge, but the ‘Cats persevered.