Auburn women’s tennis hosts USF, travels to Georgia Tech

AUBURN, Ala. – A pair of challenges awaits the Auburn women’s tennis crew this week as the Tigers host South Florida Friday early morning then journey to Atlanta to facial area No. 6 Ga Tech Sunday.

Friday’s match will start out at 11 a.m. CT at the Yarbrough Tennis Center off Richland Street in Auburn. The match is scheduled to be played outside, and spectators are welcome to attend. All spectators will have to dress in a experience masking at all times and practice suitable social distancing. Sunday’s match at Ga Tech will also get started at 11 a.m. CT.

“I hope South Florida to occur in and contend truly difficult,” Auburn head coach Caroline Lilley said. “They’re certainly a group that can make us uncomfortable. And Ga Tech’s constantly good, a perennial prime-10 group. We are going to undoubtedly be pushed. This is a genuinely enjoyable weekend for Auburn women’s tennis.”

The Tigers (2-) are coming off a 7- sweep of Samford in their 1st house match of the time previous Friday in which they did not drop a set across 8 singles and 3 doubles matches.

“It was great to see our girls compete at home,” Lilley reported. “It had been in excess of 300 days considering the fact that we experienced a residence match. We’ve been working definitely challenging, the women have been incredibly dedicated. Samford pushed us and made us not comfortable, which is generally a very good issue. It was wonderful to see us play some actually aggressive tennis as very well.”

South Florida is -2 adhering to a pair of highway losses at Florida Condition final 7 days and Alabama on Thursday. The Bulls went 5-7 very last year.

Ga Tech enters their weekend at 3- after using down No. 14 South Carolina and No. 6 Duke in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, advancing to the ITA Countrywide Staff Indoor Championships. The match with Auburn was originally scheduled for Feb. 5 but moved to Sunday to accommodate the Yellow Jackets’ qualifying for nationals. Tech characteristics 3 ranked players in singles – No. 13 Kenya Jones, No. 56 Victoria Flores and No. 123 Gia Cohen – and the nation’s No. 5-ranked doubles team in Jones and Flores.

Live stats and are living movie will be obtainable for each matches backlinks can be located on the women’s tennis program site at AuburnTigers.com.

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