Women's Tennis Hosts Penn State on Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, February 12

Cincinnati, Ohio

3 PM

Xavier University

Penn State

Women's Tennis Hosts Penn State on Saturday Afternoon

02.10.22 | Women's Tennis

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Musketeers and Nittany Lions face off at 3:00 p.m. at Eastern Hills

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier women's tennis hosts Penn State on Saturday, February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Eastern Hills in the third of four-straight home matches.

Following the match with the Nittany Lions, Xavier will return on February 26 to host East Tennessee State at 6:00 p.m.

PENN STATE

Penn State is 3-3 on the season with wins over West Virginia, Syracuse and James Madison. PSU fell to ODU, No. 8 NC State and Northwestern.
The Nittany Lions went 10-8 overall and 10-7 in a Big Ten only regular season last spring.
After earning a first round bye, PSU fell to Minnesota in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament.
This is the first match-up between the two schools.

WEEKLY AWARDS

After picking up a pair of wins in the No. 1 singles spot over the weekend, Ahmeir Kyle was named the BIG EAST Singles Player of the Week.
Kyle, a graduate student from St. Joseph, Mich., stayed unbeaten on the season in singles play after a 2-0 week against Michigan State and Virginia Tech. Kyle began the week with a 7-5, 3-6, 10-4 victory over the Spartans' Mary Lewis on Saturday. Two days later, Kyle notched a comeback win, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, to help the Musketeers to a 4-3 win over the Hokies.
This is Kyle's first weekly award of the season and the first for the Musketeers of 2022.

LAST TIME OUT

Xavier women's tennis closed out last weekend's schedule with a tightly-contested win, taking the 4-3 victory over Virginia Tech on Monday.
In doubles action, Xavier split the first two decisions, with Anne-Sophie Courteau and Kat Lyman taking the 7-5 win on the No. 2 court and Anna Smith and Anna Roggenburk falling 7-5 on the No. 3 court.
The No. 1 court came down to tiebreakers with Ahmeir Kyle and Imani Graham taking the 7-6 (4) win to pick up the point and put the Musketeers ahead, 1-0.
In singles play, Xavier picked up a pair of two set decisions, with Imani Graham winning 6-0, 7-5 on the No. 2 court and Anna Smith winning 6-3, 6-3 on the No. 5 court.
Virginia Tech picked up three two-set wins, a 6-3, 6-3 decision against Anna Roggenburk on court No. 3, a 6-2, 6-4 win over Kat Lyman on court No. 4, and a 6-4, 6-1 win against Anne-Sophie Courteau in No. 6 singles to set the match score at 3-3 with just No. 1 singles left to finish.
After falling in the first set on court No. 1, Ahmeir Kyle battled through tiebreakers in the second set to force a third set, where she picked up the 6-4 win to take the 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 decision to make it a 4-3 win for the Musketeers.

THE MUSKETEERS

Xavier returned seven letterwinners from last season's BIG EAST Championship squad, including Ahmeir Kyle and Anna Roggenburk, who were were unanimous selections to the All-BIG EAST First Team.
Roggenburk also earned the nod as Freshman of the Year for the conference while Kyle became the first Musketeer to qualify for the NCAA DI Singles Championship.
The Musketeers also return all-conference honoree Kat Lyman, who earned a spot on the All-BIG EAST Second Team.
Xavier added a pair of newcomers as well in graduate transfer Anna Smith, joining the Musketeers from Marshall, as well as freshman Bella Kirby.
The Musketeers also added a mid-year transfer in graduate student Anne-Sophie Courteau. She comes to Xavier from West Virginia, where she collected over 75 combined wins in four seasons, including 44 singles wins and 34 doubles wins.