GAME PROGRAM INFO
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Slippery Rock vs. Salem
The Rock (4-4)	Tigers (6-4)
Roster	Roster
Schedule	Schedule
Statistics	Statistics
Coach Matt Meredith	Coach Dennis McNaboe
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PSAC Standings
PSAC Schedule
SRU Tennis Courts

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team will host Salem University 4 p.m. Tuesday for a key Atlantic Region match at the SRU Tennis Courts.
 
MATCH 9 DETAILS
Opponent: Salem University
Date: Tuesday – 4 p.m.
Location: SRU Tennis Courts
All-Time Series: Salem leads 1-0
Last Played: March 13, 2020 (SU won 4-3)
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
Slippery Rock and Salem have met just one time in the programs' respective histories. The first match between The Rock and Tigers occurred March 13, 2020 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina as Salem earned a 4-3 victory in what turned out to be the final match of the year for SRU as the remainder of the season would eventually be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Only one athlete across both rosters remains from the 2020 matchup – Salem's Ana Kunic.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
Overall Record: 4-4
Home Record: 1-0
Away Record: 2-2
Neutral Site Record: 1-2
Streak: L2
Last Five Matches: 3-2
Head Coach: Matt Meredith | 25th season at SRU (351-201)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
Spring Break Recap: Slippery Rock competed in four matches in Florida during its annual trip south for Spring Break last week. The Rock opened the trip with consecutive victories against Eastern State Florida College (6-1) and Texas A&M Kingsville (4-3) followed by a pair of narrow 4-3 losses to Dallas Baptist and No. 34 Saint Thomas Aquinas.
 
• Gabriela del Val del Toro was named the PSAC West Athlete of the Week for the second time this season following a dominant showing in Florida in which she went a perfect 4-0 in singles matches and 3-1 in doubles play alongside teammate Nuria Martin Lopez.
 
• del Val del Toro enters the week having won seven consecutive singles matches to improve her record to an impressive 16-4 (.800) overall. She is 7-1 in the second flight of dual matches this season in addition to having gone 9-3 in tournament play.
 
• Martin Lopez and Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez will bring identical 10-9 singles records into the Salem Match. Gonzalez Sanchez competes out of The Rock's top singles flight while Martin Lopez plays predominantly from the fourth flight.
 
• Martin Lopez defeated Kunic 6-1, 6-1 earlier in the season in the second round of the ITA Atlantic Region Championships.
 
• Despite being the newest addition to the roster, Dari Sakhanova has quickly established herself as one of SRU's top performers as evidenced by her 5-2 record at No. 3 singles.
 
• Teddi Isherwood (2-8) and Georgie Lancaster round out Slippery Rock's standard singles lineup from the fifth and sixth flights, respectively. Isherwood has compiled a career record of 24-14 (.632) in under two seasons at The Rock while Lancaster is 3-3 in her last six matches.
 
• Slippery Rock's primary three doubles teams of Gonzalez Sanchez/Isherwood, Martin Lopez/del Val del Toro and Sakhanova/Tina Slovak all boast a .500 or better winning percentage.
 
• Slippery Rock has won the team doubles point in six of its eight matches this season.
 
• Martin Lopez and del Val del Toro are 11-7 as a team this season and 5-3 from the second flight. The rookie tandem of Slovak and Sakhanova have posted a near perfect 5-1 record in the third flight while Isherwood and Gonzalez Sanchez have won three of their last four matches to improve to 4-4 in the first flight.
 
SALEM PRIMER
Overall Record: 6-4
Home Record: 1-0
Away Record: 5-4
Neutral Site Record: 0-0
Streak: W2
Last Five Matches: 3-2
Head Coach: Dennis McNaboe | Second season at Salem (9-27)
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Tigers won its second consecutive match with an 8-1 victory March 15 at Marietta College.
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (DUAL MATCH RECORD)
Singles
1-Ana Kunic (4-6)
2-Anastasia Gerter (6-3)
3-Daria Korsakova (3-7)
4-Lina Ziani (4-5)
5-Kylie Diaz (4-5)
6-Melanie Coric (3-7)
Doubles
1-Kunic/Korsakova
2-Ziani/Gerter (5-3)
3-Coric/Diaz (2-6)
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock begins the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division portion of its 2022-23 schedule when it hosts Indiana University (Pa.) 12 p.m. Saturday at the SRU Tennis Courts.




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