MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team wraps up its fall campaign this weekend with a trip to Tuscaloosa for the Roberta Alison Fall Classic.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION:
Date: Oct. 26, 2018 through Oct. 27, 2018
Place: University of Alabama Tennis Center, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Field: Air Force, UAB, Alabama, Clemson, DePaul, East Carolina, Kennesaw State, Kentucky, Indiana, Lewis, Memphis, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Samford, South Florida, South Alabama, UT Martin, Troy, Tulane, Western Michigan, Wisconsin
Match Times: Play begins Friday at 9 a.m.
ON THE COURT FOR THE JAGUARS
-Yu Fujioka (So., Funabashi, Japan)
-Alexandria Stiteler (Sr., Bradenton, Fla.)
-Milka Pasanen (So., Pieksämäki, Finland)
-Patricia Martins (Sr., Lisbon, Portugal)
-Nikola Kohoutova (So., Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic)
-Leslie Soto (Jr., Santiago, Chile)
NOTES
-Pasanen has a team-best 5-1 record this fall and has won her last five matches
-Pasanen is 4-1 in doubles with Fujioka, and the pair won a flight championship at the Samford Fall Round Robin
-Stiteler, who made her first fall appearance at the ITA Southern Regional, split a pair of matches
-Fujioka won her first four matches of the fall before falling to Alexa Bortles of Ole Miss in the round of 32 at the ITA Regional
QUOTES FROM COACH KEYSER
-On this weekend's tournament: "I'm looking forward to this final preseason tournament. We have had some good quality play in practice so there is no reason not to execute within matches. There will be some great competition this weekend but all the better as we will learn a lot with regards to where we are with the beginning of the season right around the corner."
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