BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s tennis team was ranked in the top 25 for the first time since April 2001 when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association released its national poll Tuesday.
The Lady Tigers (9-6, 1-5) climbed 10 spots from last week’s rankings to No. 25 after this past Friday’s win over 15th-ranked Kentucky. The Lady Wildcats slid to No. 18.
LSU’s Jessica Ferguson re-entered the rankings at No. 62 in the singles poll. She had two big wins since the last poll was released over then-No. 62 Sabita Maharaj of Tennessee and No. 21 Jessica Roland of Texas A&M.
LSU is ranked sixth among Southeastern conference teams, behind No. 2 Florida, No. 4 Georgia, No. 5 Vanderbilt, No. 18 Kentucky and No. 22 Alabama. Of those teams, the Lady Tigers have faced all but Alabama.
The Lady Tigers have risen in the last three polls despite playing without junior Amanda Mang, who played No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles until she injured her wrist in LSU’s win over Florida State.
LSU will resume SEC play Friday when they play Ole Miss on the road at 4 p.m.