FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The LSU women’s tennis team will face the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks Wednesday in a Southeastern Conference battle here in Fayetteville, Ark.
“This is a huge match for our team,” said LSU head coach Tony Minnis. “I think that at this point in the season we are capable of beating anyone in the SEC, but it’s just a matter of us going out there and executing.”
The Lady Tigers enter Wednesday’s match versus Arkansas with a 10-6 overall record and a 2-5 mark in SEC play. The Lady Razorbacks have an overall record of 4-9 with a 2-6 record against conference opponents.
Last season Arkansas and LSU played each other two times, with each team winning a match. The contests were both held at the “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium in Baton Rouge.
In the first match between the two teams, the Lady Tigers upset the 17th-ranked Lady Razorbacks in regular season play by the score of 5-4. Arkansas would then get its revenge against the Lady Tigers with a 5-2 victory over LSU in the SEC Tournament.
“I think our team still remembers how they (Arkansas) knocked us out of the SEC Tournament last season,” Minnis said. “Our team wants to win this match to make up for last year’s loss to Arkansas as well as Sunday’s heartbreaking defeat against Tennessee.”
In LSU’s previous match, the Lady Tigers fell to the 20th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers, 5-4, on the road in Knoxville, Tenn. The Volunteers came back to win the match after trailing the Lady Tigers, 4-2, going into doubles play. Tennessee swept all three doubles matches to win, 5-4.
Arkansas ended its four-match losing streak last week with a 5-4 upset win over 22nd-ranked Mississippi State.
The Razorbacks’ 20th-ranked Chin Bee Khoo and the Lady Tigers’ 13th-ranked Bruna Colosio will go head to head on court No. 1 Wednesday. Colosio is looking to extend her seven-match winning streak, while Khoo has won her previous six singles matches.
The match between the LSU Lady Tigers and the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in Fayetteville, Ark.