FSU sports information:
Florida State senior Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc is the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Year and head coach Dwayne Hultquist is the conference’s Coach of the Year, it was announced Thursday.
Hultquist led the Seminoles to their first ACC Tournament championship by defeating No. 65 Virginia Tech, No. 11 NC State, No. 7 Wake Forest and No. 2 Virginia in consecutive days. Florida State was the first school to win four matches in four days to claim an ACC title and also became the first school to defeat the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the same tournament. FSU’s win over Virginia snapped the Cavaliers’ 62-match winning streak over ACC opponents and improved the Seminoles to 15-2 away from Tallahassee this season. Hultquist is the ACC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, after also earning the honor in 2018 when FSU finished with 28 wins.
Cornut-Chauvinc is 23-2 overall in singles this season, including 17-2 against ranked opponents. His 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-5 win at No. 1 singles in the final of the ACC Tournament over the No. 4-ranked player in the country completed a comeback for FSU from down 3-1 in the team match to clinch a 4-3 victory. Cornut-Chauvinc showcased his grit in his singles match, coming back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to win the final five games and claim the program’s first ACC Tournament title. The win also completed a perfect 4-0 ACC Tournament for Cornut-Chauvinc.
Cornut-Chauvinc leapfrogged his opponent from the ACC Tournament championship match to No. 3 in the national singles rankings. The Lyon, France, native has dropped only eight sets during his 25 matches in the spring season. Cornut-Chauvinc is the third different FSU player to be the ACC’s Player of the Year, earning the program’s fourth ACC Player of the Year honor, and first since 2009. He also was named first-team All-ACC in singles for the second consecutive season.
Cornut-Chauvinc and junior Joshua Dous-Karpenschif earned second-team All-ACC honors in doubles. The duo, ranked 19th nationally, is 14-10 overall this season and has played all 24 matches at the No. 1 position. It is the first all-conference doubles honor for the duo.
Junior Jamie Connel joined Cornut-Chauvinc on the All-ACC team, earning third-team all-conference honors. He is 20-5 in singles this season after completing a perfect 4-0 run through the ACC Tournament that included three straight-sets victories. Connel, who was the Southern Conference’s Freshman of the Year and a first-team All-SoCon selection at Furman that season, is on the All-ACC team for the first time in his career.
Florida State is 21-7 overall and ranked No. 9 in the nation entering the NCAA Tournament. The bracket will be revealed Monday during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show starting at 6 p.m. The top 16 seeds host the regional round, which begins May 3.
Florida State senior Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc is the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Year and head coach Dwayne Hultquist is the conference’s Coach of the Year, it was announced Thursday.
Hultquist led the Seminoles to their first ACC Tournament championship by defeating No. 65 Virginia Tech, No. 11 NC State, No. 7 Wake Forest and No. 2 Virginia in consecutive days. Florida State was the first school to win four matches in four days to claim an ACC title and also became the first school to defeat the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the same tournament. FSU’s win over Virginia snapped the Cavaliers’ 62-match winning streak over ACC opponents and improved the Seminoles to 15-2 away from Tallahassee this season. Hultquist is the ACC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, after also earning the honor in 2018 when FSU finished with 28 wins.
Cornut-Chauvinc is 23-2 overall in singles this season, including 17-2 against ranked opponents. His 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-5 win at No. 1 singles in the final of the ACC Tournament over the No. 4-ranked player in the country completed a comeback for FSU from down 3-1 in the team match to clinch a 4-3 victory. Cornut-Chauvinc showcased his grit in his singles match, coming back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to win the final five games and claim the program’s first ACC Tournament title. The win also completed a perfect 4-0 ACC Tournament for Cornut-Chauvinc.
Cornut-Chauvinc leapfrogged his opponent from the ACC Tournament championship match to No. 3 in the national singles rankings. The Lyon, France, native has dropped only eight sets during his 25 matches in the spring season. Cornut-Chauvinc is the third different FSU player to be the ACC’s Player of the Year, earning the program’s fourth ACC Player of the Year honor, and first since 2009. He also was named first-team All-ACC in singles for the second consecutive season.
Cornut-Chauvinc and junior Joshua Dous-Karpenschif earned second-team All-ACC honors in doubles. The duo, ranked 19th nationally, is 14-10 overall this season and has played all 24 matches at the No. 1 position. It is the first all-conference doubles honor for the duo.
Junior Jamie Connel joined Cornut-Chauvinc on the All-ACC team, earning third-team all-conference honors. He is 20-5 in singles this season after completing a perfect 4-0 run through the ACC Tournament that included three straight-sets victories. Connel, who was the Southern Conference’s Freshman of the Year and a first-team All-SoCon selection at Furman that season, is on the All-ACC team for the first time in his career.
Florida State is 21-7 overall and ranked No. 9 in the nation entering the NCAA Tournament. The bracket will be revealed Monday during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show starting at 6 p.m. The top 16 seeds host the regional round, which begins May 3.
