DALLAS (SMU) - The SMU women's tennis team will play their second duals match of the season Friday at the SMU Tennis Complex against the McNeese State Cowgirls at 5:00 p.m. CT.

SMU Tennis Complex:
5669 N Central Expressway | SMU | Dallas, TX 75205
Parking: Match-day parking for the SMU Tennis Complex is available on campus in the Binkley and Moody Parking Centers. SMU athletics ask that visitors not park in the residential areas surrounding the facility or in Park Cities Plaza.

LAST MATCH - ABILENE CHRISTIAN
The Mustangs won their first match of the season against the Abilene Christian Wildcats Tuesday, January 26 by a final score of 5-2. SMU's first point came in doubles from wins by Vaszilisza Bulgakova and Hristina Dishkova along with Dasha Sharapova and Ana Perez-Lopez.

Mary Wright won the first singles point for the Mustangs winning 6-2, 6-0 and shortly after that Dishkova won her match 6-1, 6-1 to put the Mustangs up 3-0 in the team competition. After an ACU match win to put the team score to 3-1 in SMU's favor Macie Elliott clinched the fourth point and the win for SMU winning her match 7-5, 6-4. Sharapova won her match 7-5, 7-5 and Bulgakova went into a third set super tiebreak that went back and forth but she eventually fell 4-6, 6-4, 13-11.

SCOUTING MCNEESE STATE
McNeese State comes into Friday's matchup with a 3-1 record after dropping their season opener against Baylor then winning their next three matches. Their loss to Baylor was by a final score of 4-3 and their wins came against UTRGV 6-1, Texas State 6-1 and UL-Lafayette 5-1.

Senior Klaudia Gawlik has been on the No. 1 line for the Cowgirls in both singles and doubles all season. She lost her singles match aganist Baylor but has not dropped a singles match yet. In doubles, with her partner, senior Anastasija Trubich she is 1-1 with a match unfinished.

The rest of the singles lineup for McNeese has been consistent with junior Julia Kral at No. 2, freshman Giovanna Fioretti at No. 3, sophomore Hannah Brett at No. 4, sophomore Sarah Jurakova at No. 5 and junior Vivien Borbely at No. 6. The one exception came in their last match against UL-Lafayette when Kral did not compete so the rest of the lineup moved up one line and freshman Charoline Erlandsson went into the No. 6 spot.

SERIES INFO
SMU and McNeese State have only squared off one time previously and that came last season as SMU took the match 6-1 in what was also last season's second match of the year for the Mustangs. Last season, doubles pairs of Wright and Yana Erkeeva along with Bulgakova and Sharapova took doubles matches to win the doubles point for SMU. Wright, Sharapova, Dishkova and Bulgakova each won their singles matches.

HOME SWEET HOME
SMU will take advantage of the year old SMU Tennis Complex, starting their season at home with seven straight matches before traveling to Fort Worth to face TCU on Feb. 25 then coming back home for their first conference match against UConn on Feb. 28. The Mustangs will also end the season playing six of seven matches in Dallas.

EXPERIENCED ROSTER
SMU's roster of seven athletes consists of three juniors (Macie Elliott, Dasha Sharapova, and Mary Wright) and three seniors (Vaszilisza Bulgakova, Hristina Dishkova and Yana Erkeeva). All six have played in 862 total matches combined in singles and doubles with Dishkova playing in 202 matches in her SMU career and Bulgakova not far behind with 184. The lone freshman of the group, Ana Perez-Lopez got experience in the fall and is now 4-4 in singles play and 4-3 playing doubles with Sharapova as her partner.

LOOKING AHEAD
The Mustangs will have a week off before starting a span of three matches in four days starting with Sam Houton State next Friday, Feb. 5 at 5:00 p.m. followed by Montana State Sunday, Feb. 7 at 1:00 p.m. and Northwestern State on Monday Feb. 8 at 5:00 p.m. All Matches will be at the SMU Tennis Complex.