LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 The No. 71 Kentucky women\u2019s tennis (8-8, 0-7 SEC) will continue SEC play, as they hit the midway point of the conference season, with a match at home on Friday against No. 7 Texas (11-3, 6-1 SEC) and then hit the road to face No. 5 Texas A&M (14-3, 6-1 SEC).<\/p>\n
The Wildcats are coming off two losses against top 25 opponents. Last Thursday they fell at No. 23 Florida, and then again to No. 3 Auburn last Sunday.<\/p>\n
No. 7 Texas (11-3, 6-1 SEC) will come to the Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex coming off an upset win against No. 1 Georgia in Austin. They are led by the nation\u2019s No. 1 singles player in Carmen Herea, No. 12\u00a0Anastasia Abbagnato, and No. 71\u00a0Eszter Meri. In doubles the Longhorns have No. 41\u00a0Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo\/Anastasia Abbagnato, No. 53\u00a0Salma Drugdova\/Anastasia Abbagnato,No. 63\u00a0Elizabeth Ionescu\/Carmen Herea, and No. 71\u00a0Elizabeth Ionescu\/Christasha McNeil.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats will visit No.5 Texas A&M (14-3, 6-1 SEC) in College Station. The Aggies are coming off a win against No. 22 South Carolina 4-0. They have ranked singles players in No. 2\u00a0Lucciana Perez, No. 31\u00a0Mia Kupres, No. 54\u00a0Ilinca Amariei\u00a0and No. 96\u00a0Violeta Martinez. For doubles, Texas A&M\u2019s roster features No. 8 Kupres\/Perez and No. 75 Amariei\/Martinez.<\/p>\n
Kentucky women\u2019s tennis is still striving for their first conference win of the season, with two huge opportunities for a dual statement of top 10 wins ahead.<\/p>\n
For the latest on UK Women\u2019s Tennis, follow @UKWomensTennis on Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 The No. 71 Kentucky women\u2019s tennis (8-8, 0-7 SEC) will continue SEC play, as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,43,8731,82,593,43755],"class_list":["post-547536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-non-homepage-featured","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-women-s-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}