Friday, January 26
Ithaca, N.Y.
4:30 PM
University of Missouri
at
Cornell
@MizzouTennis Heads to New York For Three Matches
1/24/2018 1:11:00 PM | Tennis
Tigers at Cornell Friday, have pair of neutral-site matches Sunday
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Mizzou Tennis team (2-0) heads northeast for its first road duals of the 2018 season, beginning Friday at 4:30 p.m. CT at Cornell. The Tigers remain in Ithaca, N.Y., over the weekend, capping their trip with neutral-site matches against Army and Binghamton on Sunday at 8 a.m. and Noon CT, respectively.
LOOKING BACK: TIGERS SWEEP OPENING WEEKEND
- Mizzou's coming off a home doubleheader sweep of SEMO (5-0) and Central Arkansas (6-1) on Saturday to open the 2018 campaign.
- The trio of senior co-captain Amina Ismail (Maineville, Ohio), sophomore Mackenzy Middlebrooks (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and freshman Ellie Wright (Gainesville, Fla.) each went 4-0 on the weekend, winning both of their singles and doubles matches. Middlebrooks and Wright paired as a doubles team, while Ismail partnered with freshman Taylor Gruber (Spicewood, Texas) in her wins.
DOUBLING UP
- Doubles continues to be the strength of the Tigers. In all, Mizzou's doubles teams are 20-14 (.588) on the season.
- Senior co-captain Clare Raley (Atlanta, Ga.) and sophomore Serena Nash (Bradford, England) lead the way with a total of seven doubles wins. Four of those have come with each other; Raley has also joined Middlebrooks, while Nash has also paired with freshmen Marta Oliveira (Lisbon, Portugal) and Wright.
- Ismail's combined 6-3 doubles record with freshmen Gruber and Oliveira gives her the best winning percentage on the squad (.667).
- Middlebrooks (Wright and Raley) and Wright (freshman Ally Noback, Nash and Middlebrooks) also have six doubles wins on the season.
MACK'S ON FIRE
- Sophomore Mackenzy Middlebrooks (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) has the hottest singles streak going on the team at the moment; dating back to the fall season, she's won her last eight singles matches.
- Her streak began after losing her opening match a the ITA Regional Championships in Lawrence, Kan., on Oct. 19. Middlebrooks then roared back through the consolation bracket, winning six straight matches – not dropping a set in the process – in earning the consolation singles title.
- Middlebrooks' eight singles wins currently leads the team.
FIVE NEWCOMERS
- Head Coach Colt Gaston has assembled a mix of veteran talent and young newcomers with this season's roster.
- Four Tigers – Nash, a sophomore transfer from Oklahoma; and freshmen Wright, Oliveira and Noback – made their team debuts in the fall.
- A fifth – Gruber – signed with Mizzou in November, graduated early from high school and joined the team in January.
- The newcomers have accounted for nearly half (16) of the Tigers' 34 singles wins this season, and have had a hand in 17 of the team's 20 doubles victories.
SCOUTING CORNELL
- The Big Red, under seventh-year Head Coach Mike Stevens, will be playing their first dual matches of the season this weekend.
- Cornell won a share of the Ivy League title last season for the first time in program history, on its way to a school-record-tying 15-win season.
- CU graduated its top two singles players and doubles team, but signed three newcomers to a recruiting class that, like Mizzou's, received votes among the top 25 signing classes of the season.
SCOUTING ARMY
- Army will also be playing its first dual matches this weekend, but the Golden Knights did compete on an individual basis last weekend at in a tournament vs. players from Fordham, Rutgers and host NJIT.
- Freshman Hannah Boubel had a team-best 15-2 singles mark in the Fall campaign, and was 2-1 last weekend for Head Coach Paul Peck, who's in his 23rd season on the banks of the Hudson.
- Boubel teamed with fellow freshman Sasha Inchauste for a 10-2 Fall doubles mark to lead the team. They went 1-1 in New Jersey last weekend.
SCOUTING BINGHAMTON
- The Bearcats open 2018 dual-match play under eighth-year Head Coach Libby McGovern Friday afternoon at Rutgers.
- A pair of upperclassmen, senior Paulina Tafler and junior Maria Pandya, led Binghamton with four singles wins apiece in the Fall season.
- Freshman Ashley Granieri led the Bearcats with three doubles wins in the Fall.
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