SMU vs. No. 8 Texas A&M
Mitchell Tennis Center – College Station, Texas
Feb. 5, 2022 – 12 p.m.
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SMU plays its second-straight road match against a top-ten team, visiting No. 8 Texas A&M on Sunday. The match marks the third of a six-match road stretch for the Mustangs.

The Mustangs
Graduate senior Lexi Keberle enters Sunday's match against the Aggies currently sporting a 3-0 record on line one through the first four matches of dual play. Keberle has also won two of her first three completed doubles matches, including a 6-2 win over ACU with partner Katherine Jakeway.

Junior Hadley Doyle owns a 2-1 record on court two, picking up two wins in the Mustangs' opening weekend against UTSA and ACU.

After a strong showing in the fall which included winning her singles draw at the SMU Red & Blue Challenge and a 3-0 singles outing at the Gamecock Shootout on Oct. 29, graduate senior Claudia Bartolome has opened her spring campaign 3-0, including a tightly-contested affair against No. 1 Texas' Vivian Ovrootsky which ended unfinished. Bartolome touts a 3-1 doubles record, having earned wins over UTSA and ACU with freshman Drew Morris, and Rice with junior Jackie Nylander.

The Aggies
Texas A&M enters Sunday's match undefeated, following 4-1 and 4-0 wins over Princeton and Texas Tech in the ITA Kickoff Weekend. The Aggies open their 2022 spring campaign following a 2021 season that ended at the hands of No. 7 Florida State in the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament.  

Last Time Out
SMU fell 4-0 in the final round of the ITA Kickoff Weekend at No. 1 Texas on Jan. 29. The Mustangs advanced to the match against Texas the day prior with a 4-2 win over Rice, in which junior Lana Mavor debuted her SMU dual career with a win on line four, earning the clinching point.

2020-21 Notes
The Mustangs completed their 2020-21 season with 21 wins, the most since the 2011 season (23). The mark was good for the fourth-most wins in the nation, and a final national ranking of 45^th.

SMU won 12 of 14 doubles points to conclude its season, including a stretch of seven consecutive during a string of matches that included four ranked teams. 

Doyle and then-sophomore Nylander proved a key doubles pairing for SMU as the duo went 10-8 on the season, climbed as high as No. 30 nationally, and finished the regular season ranked 87^th.

Bartolome and former Mustang Chandler Carter compiled a 13-1 record on court two in doubles, finishing their season with eight consecutive wins.

Nylander handled court one for SMU, amassing a 13-8 record and finishing the season with two top-100 wins and 6-1 against American Conference opponents.

Senior Nicole Petchey went 16-4 on the season, an effort that included a 12-1 stretch over the final 21 matches of the Mustangs' regular season.

Claudia Bartolome won 14 matches in her third season at SMU, including a four-match stretch against ranked opponents in which she claimed singles victory in each.
 
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