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Women’s Tennis Meets No. 23 LSU on Tuesday in Baton Rouge
Feb 19, 2018 | Women's Tennis
NEW ORLEANSÂ - Winners in three straight, the Tulane women's tennis team will face its second ranked opponent of the year and play the first of nine consecutive road matches against 23rd-ranked LSU on Tuesday, February 20. First serve is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., at the LSU Tennis Complex.
LAST TIME OUT
Tulane (6-3) won home matches on back-to-back days, defeating UTSA, 6-1, on Friday, before outlasting South Alabama, 4-3, on Saturday to push its win streak to three in a row and improve to 4-0 at home this season. The Green Wave won the doubles point in both matchups, while Laura Fabrizi earned the clinching point in singles each time.Â
SCOUTING LSU
Led by co-head coaches Julia and Michael Sell, the 23rd-ranked Tigers enter Tuesday's match with a 6-1 overall record this spring and winners of four straight contests. Most recently, they defeated Nicholls, 6-1, on Saturday at home after 17 days off between matches.
LSU possesses three players ranked in the ITA's singles poll, including No. 69 Jessica Golovin, No. 88 Ryann Foster and No. 114 Eden Richardson. Golovin is 7-0 in dual matches this spring and has won nine straight going back to the fall season, while Foster is 4-0 and has won six in a row. Richardson owns a team-leading 16-4 overall record this year and is 6-1 in dual matches.
THE LONG ROAD HOME
Tulane begins a string of nine-straight matches without playing at home on Feb. 20 at LSU and will not play another dual match in New Orleans until March 24 against Tulsa. The Green Wave will play four matches on two separate trips to Tennessee (Feb. 24-25 and March 17-18), two matches in Storrs, Conn., (March 3-4) and a pair in Norfolk, Va. (March 10-11).
ALVARO'S DUAL WIN STREAK
Ivone Alvaro has won 16-straight decisions in dual singles matches dating back to last year and is 5-0 playing at the No. 3 spot in the lineup so far this season. She tied for second on the team in dual wins (18) with Sisti in 2017, just one behind Elena Muller.
ALEGRE'S FIRST WIN A CLINCHER
Freshman Alex Alegre joined the Green Wave from Spain in January, and earned her first collegiate singles victory from the No. 6 spot in the lineup on February 11 in a 5-1 win over South Dakota State. Not only was it her first triumph, but it marked Tulane's fourth team point in the match to clinch the victory.
BUILDING ON 20
Tulane posted its first 20-win season in the post-Katrina era by going 22-7 in 2016-17. The year was highlighted by the program's first top-30 win in the post-Katrina era with a 4-3 victory over then No. 28 LSU. The Wave also went 4-0 against American opponents, defeating the likes of UConn, UCF, USF and Houston.
VETERAN MAKEUP
Tulane not only returns a strong cast comprising five letterwinners from last year's team, but each of them finished the 2017 spring campaign at the No. 2-6 spots in the singles lineup, including senior Sade Atkinson, juniors Elena Muller and Sofia Kurtz, and sophomores Christina Sisti and Ivone Alvaro.
NEW FACES
The Green Wave welcomes three newcomers, including sophomore Laura Fabrizi who played her debut season at FAU in 2016-17, as well as freshmen Daniela La Fuente and Alex Alegre.
