Stephen F. Austin
LSU-Alexandria
Ladyjacks' Final Non-Conference Match of 2018 Set for Friday at LSU-Alexandria
4/19/2018 11:29:00 AM | Women's Tennis
SFA goes for back-to-back wins for first time in 2018
Match Twenty-One
Stephen F. Austin (3-17) at LSU-Alexandria (7-6)
Friday, April 21 | 2:00 p.m. | LSU-Alexandria Tennis Courts | Alexandria, La.
THE FIRST SERVE
• Hoping to string together consecutive wins for the first time in 2018, the Stephen F. Austin women's tennis team heads to Alexandria, La., Friday where it will take part in its final non-conference match of the season. At 2:00 p.m., the Ladyjacks take on LSU-Alexandria at the LSU-Alexandria Tennis Courts.
• Wednesday afternoon, SFA secured a 6-0 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in Texarkana, Texas, which represented the Ladyacks' first shutout victory win since January 22, 2016. That day, SFA bested Prairie View A&M by a 7-0 tally at the Schlief Tennis Complex in Nacogdoches.
• Each of SFA's six singles wins against the Golden Lions Tuesday afternoon were of the 6-0, 6-0 variety.
• Sophomore Darinka Tiboldi is one win away from reaching 10 singles wins in 2018. Both she and Nida Kamal have won two singles matches in a row - the longest active singles winning streak on the team - while Tiboldi leads the team in singles wins with nine. Together, Tiboldi and Kamal have claimed a team-high six of the Ladyjacks' 16 doubles victories in 2018.
• Kaja Ljubic needs one more singles triumph to bring her singles record back to .500. Ljubic is 8-9 in singles action with those eight wins representing the second-most on the team.
SCOUTING LSU-ALEXANDRIA | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• Friday afternoon's game will serve as an exhibition bout for the Generals who are currently ranked 10th in the latest version of the NAIA Women's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 Poll. Four of the Generals' seven 2018 wins have come against foes who were either ranked or receiving votes in the NAIA national listing.
• Senior Alba Perny, a transfer from Louisiana Tech, stands as the seventh-ranked singles player in the nation in the latest edition of the NAIA Women's National Singles Rankings. A product of Madrid, Spain, Perny has gone 11-2 in singles action and represents one-half of the NAIA's 10th-ranked doubles team.
• When teaming with Laia Charles in doubles play, Perny has gone 8-4. By herself, Charles has turned in a 6-7 showing in singles play with those six wins representing the second-most among the Generals' ranks.
• LSU-Alexandria's best doubles duo in terms of wins is Patricia Perez and Miljana Milojevic. That tandem has played exclusively on the number three doubles line and has posted a 7-3 record in that spot.
• In their only other action against a Southland Conference foe this season, LSU-Alexandria dropped an exhibition match at Southeastern Louisiana by a score of 6-1. Perny posted the Generals' lone team point by recording a 3-6, 6-2, 10-2 victory over Madina Vorotnikova on the number two singles line.
COMING UP NEXT
• SFA's 2018 season finale takes place in Huntsville, Texas, as the Ladyjacks tangle with Southland Conference adversary Incarnate Word at noon Sunday. The match was originally schedule to take place in Houston, Texas, on Saturday afternoon but projected poor weather forced a day and site change.
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