Women's Tennis Hosts Nicholls in Mid-Week Matinee

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane women's tennis team looks to build on Sunday's home win and returns to the courts on Wednesday, February 12 for a home contest against Nicholls. First serve is scheduled for noon at the City Park Tennis Center.

IN THE RANKINGS
Freshman Mackenzie Clark broke into the ITA's national singles rankings at No. 103 according to the latest poll released Feb. 5. She became the first Tulane women's tennis player to be listed in the poll since Klara Vyskocilova during the 2014 spring season.

SCOUTING NICHOLLS
The Colonels (1-3) enter Wednesday's match coming off back-to-back home losses to Jacksonville State (5-2) and Samford (6-1) last weekend. Nicholls is led by freshman Laura Lopez, who owns a 2-2 record playing No. 1 singles this spring. Last season, the Colonels posted a 4-16 overall record, which included a 4-2, mid-week defeat against the Green Wave in City Park on April 3.

LAST TIME OUT
Tulane (5-2) got back on track with a tough, 4-3 home win over Samford on Sunday. The Green Wave won the doubles point with a pair of 6-4 wins on courts two and three, respectively, before earning singles wins on courts one, two and four. With the match tied, 3-3, freshman Mackenzie Clark closed out No. 1 singles in three sets, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5, to clinch the match.

RANKED SINGLES WINS
Tulane junior Lauren Gish and freshmen Mackenzie Clark and Lahari Yelamanchili have all secured singles wins over ranked opponents in their first season with the Green Wave. Most recently, Clark upset 42nd-ranked Taylor Bridges at LSU on Jan. 31, after Gish defeated No. 116 Cameron Corse from Notre Dame and Yelamanchili outlasted No. 18 Eden Richardson of LSU during the fall season.

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Women's Tennis Hosts Nicholls in Mid-Week Matinee

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Mackenzie Clark

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