BATON ROUGE — After a rain-out against Vanderbilt, the 20th-ranked LSU women’s tennis team will square off against No. 13 Kentucky Sunday at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium at 10 a.m.
“This is a great opportunity to have the No. 13 team in the country coming in to play on our home courts. Hopefully the rain will stay away,” said head coach Tony Minnis.
In the teams’ last meeting, LSU (7-4, 0-2 SEC) knocked off Kentucky’s undefeated home record, 4-3, by rallying late in singles.
No. 12 Megan Falcon leads LSU in singles wins with 22 on the season and 87 for her career. Nicole Kantor, a junior from St. Louis, Mo., checks in with 18 wins and is 7-3 in dual matches. In doubles, 17th-ranked Falcon and Mykala Hedberg have notched 22 victories this season and five of those have been against nationally ranked opponents.
Kentucky (9-2, 1-2 SEC) highlights No. 96 Megan Broderick as she leads the Wildcats with 14 dual match wins. The 53rd-ranked tandem of Carolina Escamilla and Caroline Lilley are fresh off of a hotly-contested doubles victory against Arkansas’s top duo of No. 18 Nanar Airapetian and Anouk Tigu.
The series history is close as Kentucky leads the Lady Tigers at 16-13.