Women’s Tennis Faces Mississippi State

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU girls’s tennis workforce (9-8, 2-7 SEC) welcomes the Mississippi State Bulldogs (10-10, 0-9 SEC) to the LSU Tennis Complicated for a convention match at 5 p.m. CT on Friday, April 7.

This weekend would be the closing house matches of the common season for the Tigers. Friday’s match will function a free slice of pizza to the primary 50 followers on a primary come, first serve foundation. Admission is freed from cost for all house matches on the LSU Tennis Complicated.

Mississippi State (Apr. 7)
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Versus Mississippi State
LSU holds a 34-12 lead within the collection over the Bulldogs, together with wins within the final three conferences between the groups. When the groups met final season in Starkville, LSU got here out on prime in a 4-1 win after claiming the doubles level and scoring singles wins from Taylor Bridges, Safiya Carrington and Nina Geissler.

The Bulldogs are 10-10 on the season and searching for their first win in SEC play. The Bulldogs have had particular person success in singles, led by fifth-year graduate pupil Emma Antonaki with a 12-6 document in twin matches. Dharani Niroshan trails her teammate with an 8-4 document in twin matches and 4 wins in convention play up to now.

Tiger Tidbits
LSU is in motion for its closing house weekend of the common season after dropping two contests final week. On Friday night time, LSU was defeated by No. 4 Georgia, 5-2. Two days in a while Sunday, the Tigers had been narrowly defeated by No. 14 Tennessee, 4-3, in a match that went right down to the ultimate courtroom.

Anastasiya Komar and Kylie Collins have been in wonderful doubles kind over the previous month, boasting a 4-0 document in twin play on the prime doubles courtroom. The pair have rapidly surged up the rankings consequently, checking in at No. 7 within the newest ITA doubles rankings.

Along with her success in doubles, Komar has led the Tigers in singles motion all season. She has a twin play document of 14-2 taking part in on the No. 1 & 2 singles courts and has eight wins over ranked opponents this season. Total, her singles document is 28-7 relationship again to the autumn. She entered the Prime 25 within the ITA singles rankings for the primary time this week, checking in at No. 22. The opposite Tiger to be ranked within the singles rating is Kylie Collins, who moved to No. 31.

The sister duo of Safiya and Noor Carrington has additionally lately emerged as a profitable doubles pair, posting a 3-1 document over the previous two weekends. Two of these wins got here in opposition to ranked opponents and the sisters made their debut within the newest doubles rankings consequently, checking in at No. 73.

The doubles level has been a constant power this season with LSU claiming it in 13 out of 17 contests. The No. 1 doubles courtroom has a document of 12-2, No. 2 boasts a 10-3 document and No. 3 has a 9-7 tally in twin matches to mix for an total document of 31-12.

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