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Women’s Tennis Finishes Regular Season at No. 17 Texas A&M Saturday
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Saturday No. 19 OLE MISS (11-7, 7-5 SEC) at No. 17 TEXAS A&M (16-5, 8-3 SEC) Sat., April 17 • 10:00 a.m. • Bryan-College Station, Texas Mitchell Tennis Center |
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BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The No. 19 Ole Miss Rebels (11-7, 7-5 SEC) conclude the 2021 regular season away at No. 17 Texas A&M (16-5, 8-3 SEC) on Saturday morning. The Rebels were originally scheduled to face the Aggies on March 7.
Winning Ways
Ole Miss earned two top-25 victories last weekend at home. The Rebels swept No. 21 Vanderbilt on Thursday (April 8) and defeated No. 23 Kentucky, 4-1, on Saturday for Senior Day (April 10). After collecting three straight ranked wins, the Rebels earned their highest team ranking of the spring at No. 19.
Sabina Machalova and Tiphanie Fiquet shined for the Rebels versus the Commodores and Wildcats. The two Rebels combined to go 3-0 over the weekend in singles, and partnered together to go 1-0 at No. 2 doubles. Machalova and Fiquet won all three singles matches at No. 1 and No. 2 singles in straight sets with an aggregate game score of 37-12. They dominated their doubles victory, 6-1, over Kentucky's Carla Girbau and Anastasia Tkachenko.
Reka Zadori was voted SEC Freshman of the Week after clinching the match versus Kentucky. Zadori has won the award three times, including back-to-back weeks.
Last Time Facing Texas A&M
Ole Miss defeated Texas A&M 4-2 at home in 2019. Ole Miss was ranked No. 49 and Texas A&M No. 16 at the time of the match. The Rebels won the contest despite losing the opening doubles point. Tereza Janatova clinched the match for the Rebels, and Machalova and Anna Vrbenska earned wins as well.
In the last road matchup, Ole Miss won 4-2 in Bryan-College Station in 2018.
Scouting the Aggies
Texas A&M has won three straight matches and earned victories in six of the last seven matches. In the last week, the Aggies won three times at home. Texas A&M defeated Missouri 4-1 (April 8), No. 24 Arkansas 4-1 (April 10) and No. 16 Tennessee 4-3 (April 14). The Aggies were named as the UTR Team of the Month for March by improving 0.87 points in UTR rating.
The Aggies feature one ranked singles player, No. 24 Tatiana Makarova. Makarova has won 11 of 14 dual matches in 2021. She has gone unbeaten in her last 14 matches (12 victories, two matches unfinished), and earned six ranked wins during the streak.
Makarova leads Texas A&M in doubles and is ranked No. 39 with Jayci Goldsmith and No. 79 alongside Jessica Anzo. Makarova has partnered with Goldsmith for 21 consecutive matches. Makarova and Goldsmith are 15-8 overall and 10-8 in duals this season.
Coming Up
Ole Miss will head to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the 2021 SEC Championship beginning Monday, April 19.
For more information on Ole Miss Women's Tennis, follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissWTennis, on Facebook at OleMissWTennis and on Instagram at OleMissWTennis. Also follow Coach Beyers on Twitter, @MarkBeyers.
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