Women’s tennis to face final regular season road tests

Women’s tennis to face final regular season road testsWomen’s tennis to face final regular season road tests
Jamie Holt/Auburn Tigers


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – No. 12 Auburn will face their final road matches of the regular season over the weekend against No. 57 Arkansas at 6 p.m. CT on Friday and Missouri at 11 a.m. CT. on Sunday.
 
The Tigers enter the weekend after taking both of their road matches on Friday against 51st ranked Kentucky and on Sunday over Vanderbilt.
 
Junior Ariana Arseneault will enter Friday's match as a winner of four straight singles matches as well as two straight doubles matches. The junior currently holds a 12-7 dual singles record and improved to 44th in the ITA's latest singles rankings that were released on Tuesday, which is up six spots from her previous ranking.
 
The Razorbacks will enter Friday's match with a 9-10 overall record and a 3-7 record in conference play. They have had more success in Fayetteville, as they hold a 4-1 home match record.
 
Arkansas had two singles players represented in the latest ITA player rankings that were released on Tuesday. Freshman Carolina Gomez-Alonso and Senior Kelly Keller were ranked at No. 49 and No. 94 in the rankings, respectively. Keller, who typically plays at the top of the Razorbacks' singles lineup, has a 10-11 overall singles record this season and has dropped her last four matches.
 
No. 45 Indianna Spink and Morgan Cross make up Arkansas' highest ranked doubles team and hold an impressive 13-3 overall record this season.
 
Auburn's Easter Day opponent, Missouri, currently holds a 10-12 overall record and a 1-9 record in SEC play with their one conference victory being over Mississippi State.
 
Junior Mae Canete usually plays in the No. 1 spot on the Missouri singles lineup and has a 19-10 overall singles record this season. Canete and her sister, Inah Canete, make up Missouri's top doubles team and have a 3-5 dual match record together.
 
The duo finished 2022 as the top ranked doubles team in the nation and were named doubles All-Americans.
 
Auburn's Friday night matchup against Arkansas will begin at 6 p.m. at the Billingsley Tennis Center. Live video and live scoring of the match will be available online at ArkansasRazorbacks.com. Sunday's match against Missouri will be played away from the university campus at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield, Missouri. Live scoring of the match will be available online at mutigers.com.