MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team hopes to extend its unbeaten start to the 2019 spring campaign Saturday when it takes on Xavier (La.) at 10:30 a.m.

MATCH INFORMATION
Date: Feb. 2, 2019
Host: University of South Alabama
Place: Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts
Match Time: 10:30 a.m.

ON THE COURT FOR THE JAGUARS
-Yu Fujioka (So., Funabashi, Japan, 1-1 singles, 2-0 doubles)
-Alexandria Stiteler (Sr., Bradenton, Fla., 2-0 singles, 1-1 doubles)
-Milka Pasanen (So., Pieksämäki, Finland, 1-1 singles, 3-0 doubles)
-Patricia Martins (Sr., Lisbon, Portugal, 3-0 singles, 2-0 doubles)
-Nikola Kohoutova (So., Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, 2-0 singles, 1-1 doubles)
-Leslie Soto (Jr., Santiago, Chile, 2-0 singles, 2-0 doubles)
-Diana Monsalve (Jr., Bogota, Colombia, 2-0 singles, 2-0 doubles)
-Yurie Takanishi (Fr., Haracho, Japan, 2-1 singles, 3-0 doubles)

NOTES
-On Wednesday, Stiteler was the first player of the week named by the Sun Belt Conference after going 2-0 at No. 1 singles
-Stiteler is 8-0 in the last two seasons in January and February, and 23-5 in her career
-Takanishi (2-1) and Monsalve (2-0) went a combined 4-1 in singles to open their South Alabama careers
-Fujioka dropped her first career dual match Sunday against McNeese State, falling to 22-1 in two seasons
-Pasanen has a team-best eight victories over the fall and spring seasons
-Xavier is ranked No. 3 in NAIA and opened its season with a 4-3 win over Texas State

QUOTES FROM COACH KEYSER
On Saturday's match: "I'm looking forward to it. It's another opportunity to get better. This last weekend was great; we got a few wins under our belt and that should bring some confidence, but it also pointed out a lot of things we need to work on. This weekend is a great opportunity to see if we've made any improvements during the week."

On the biggest takeaway from last weekend: "Handling the ups and downs of match play. There were windows of good tennis, we just have to make those windows a little bit bigger. That comes with the more matches you play, the more you get used to the ups and downs."

On what he wants to see Saturday: "How we compete. It's easy to compete when things are going well. When we get behind and things get a little tougher, we want to set the standard of how hard we're going to compete and how we react to it."

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