Lady Rebel Netters Drop 5-2 Match To Alabama

OXFORD, Miss. The Ole Miss women’s tennis team dropped a 5-2 match to Alabama in their SEC home opener Friday evening at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center. The Lady Rebels will host Auburn Sunday at 1 p.m.

The first 50 fans to the match will receive a free t-shirt, compliments of Oxford T-Shirt Company.

With the loss, the Lady Rebels fell to 4-8 overall and 0-2 in the SEC.  Alabama improved to 5-5 and 1-2 in league play.

Ole Miss got off to a good start in the match by winning the doubles point.  Ilona Somers and Kseniia Tokarieva teamed up to post an 8-4 win over Alabama’s Mari Muller and Andrea Brenes at No. 1.  Nika Koukhartchouk and Soledad Podlipnik defeated Bianca Svensson and Alice Tunaru 8-6 to clinch the point.

In singles, Alabama won four first sets.  The Crimson Tide got on the board when Lady Rebel Carlin Cochran retired after losing the first set to Brenes at No. 6 singles.

Somers made it 2-1 Ole Miss as she downed UA’s Muller 6-2, 6-1 on court one.  The senior improved to 9-2 at No. 1 singles and 1-1 in the SEC.

Alabama evened the score when Nicole Briceno defeated Koukhartchouk 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3 singles.  They took the lead (3-2) when Tunaru finished off Podlipnik 6-3, 6-3 on court four. 

Preethi Subramanian, playing in just her second match in nearly 10 months, battled the Crimson Tide’s Bianca Svensson at No. 5 singles, but came up short 6-4, 6-4 as Alabama clinched the win.

Admission to Sunday’s match against Auburn is free and live scoring is available at www.olemisssports.com.

DOUBLES

#1 Somers/Tokarieva (OM) def. Muller/Brenes (UA) 8-4

#2 Godwin/Briceno (UA) def. Cochran/Subramanian (OM) 6-2, ret.

#3 Koukhartchouk/Podlipnik (OM) def. Svensson/Tunaru (UA) 8-6

SINGLES

#1 Ilona Somers (OM) def. Mari Muller (UA) 6-2, 6-1

#2 Shelley Godwin (UA) def. Kseniia Tokarieva (OM) 6-7(5), 6-2, 1-0(4)

#3 Nicole Briceno (UA) def. Nika Koukhartchouk (OM) 6-2, 6-2

#4 Alice Tunaru (UA) def. Soledad Podlipnik (OM) 6-3, 6-3

#5 Bianca Svensson (UA) def. Preethi Subramanian (OM) 6-4, 6-4

#6 Andrea Brenes (UA) def. Carlin Cochran (OM) 6-2, ret.

The University of Mississippi Athletics

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