SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team will play five matches over the next eight days in the greater Orlando, Florida area as part of its annual spring break trip.
 
THE SCHEDULE
March 13 (11:30 a.m.) vs. West Chester (Orlando, Fla. / Lake Cane Tennis Center)
March 15 (3 p.m.) vs. Rider (Lakeland, Florida / Wynee Warden Tennis Center)
March 17 (11:30 a.m.) vs. Texas A&M Kingsville (Orlando / USTA National Campus Courts 9-14)
March 18 (3:30 p.m.) at Saint Leo (Saint Leo, Florida)
March 20 (11 a.m.) vs. Angelo State (Orlando / USTA National Campus Courts 9-14)
 
LIVE COVERAGE
Live in-match results for all five matches will be provided by the SRU Women's Tennis program at the links below.
 
West Chester: Link
Rider: Link
Texas A&M Kingsville: Link
Saint Leo: Link
Angelo State: Link
 
TEAM RECORDS
• Slippery Rock heads to Florida with a perfect team record, albeit in a limited sample size, as its 7-0 Feb. 14 victory over Frostburg State is the lone dual match for The Rock in 2025-26.
 
• Atlantic Region and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference foe West Chester enters Friday's match with The Rock at 4-2.
 
• Rider, a Division I institution competing out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, comes into Sunday's match against SRU in possession of a 2-7 record.
 
• 36th-ranked Texas A&M Kingsville began its Florida trip at 4-2.
 
• Saint Leo enters the weekend also above the .500 threshold at 4-3.
 
• The final team The Rock will see in Florida is No. 44 Angelo State, which is currently a perfect 10-0.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• Slippery Rock and West Chester have met annually over the last four seasons, all being Rock victories, as SRU holds a near perfect 20-3 dual match record against WCU all-time.
 
SRU vs. WCU (Individual records)
Amaia Balaguer Brau (3-1)
2024-25:  Delaney Tingle (Won 6-2, 6-3)
2024-25:  Alexandra Cave (Won 6-2, 6-3)
2023-24: Delaney Tingle (Lost 2-6, 4-6)
2023-24:  Delaney Tingle (Won 7-6 (7-4), 6-4)
 
Nicole Kempton (2-0)
2024-25: Alexandra Cave (Won 6-0, 6-2)
2023-24: Yuno Oe (Won 6-2, 6-0)
 
Dari Sakhanova (2-0)
2024-25: Felicia Manful (Won 6-2, 6-0)
2023-24: Ashleigh Grooms (Won 6-2, 6-0)
 
Tina Slovak (2-0)
2023-24: Felicia Manful (Won 6-2, 6-0)
2024-25: Lerario dos Santos (Won 6-0, 6-0)
 
Alissia Kivi (1-0)
2024-25: Asheigh Grooms (Won 6-1, 6-1)
 
• Slippery Rock and Rider will be engaging in their first meeting.
 
• The Rock holds a 2-0 record versus Texas A&M Kingsville courtesy of back-to-back 4-3 wins in 2023 and 2024.
 
SRU vs. Kingsville (Individual records)
Dari Sakhanova (2-0)
2023-24: Luna Jokanovic (Won 6-2, 6-4)
2022-23: Manuela Turolo (Won 6-2, 7-6)
 
Nicole Kempton (1-0)
2023-24: Annika Gomez (Won 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7))
 
Amaia Balaguer Brau (0-1)
2023-24: Alessa Maier (Lost 6-2, 2-6, 0-1 (9-11))
 
• Conversely from the Kingsville series, Slippery Rock is 0-2 against Saint Leo by way of Lion wins in 2014 (5-4) and 2025 (5-2).
 
SRU vs. Saint Leo (Individual records)
Amaia Balaguer Brau (1-0)
2024-25: Caludia Roca (Won 6-4, 6-3)
 
Dari Sakhanova (1-0)
2024-25: Catherine Rabatin (Won 6-3, 4-6, 10-3)
 
Nicole Kempton (0-1)
2024-25: Kamilya Shailina (Lost 1-6, 7-6 (12-10), 2-10)
 
Alissia Kivi (0-1)
2024-25: Luzia Obermeier (Lost 3-6, 3-6)
 
Tina Slovak (0-1)
2024-25: Camila Keller (Lost 1-6, 0-6)
 
• Slippery Rock and Angelo State have played just once prior to this year's match – a 5-2 Rambelles win in 2024.
 
SRU vs. ASU (Individual records)
Amaia Balaguer Brau (0-1)
2023-24: Letizia Corsini (Lost 4-6, 6-7)
 
Nicole Kempton (0-1)
2023-24: Chrstine Jevicky (Lost 1-6, 3-6)
 
Dari Sakhanova (0-1)
2023-24: Jessica Li (Lost 2-6, 4-6)
 
ITA RANKINGS CHECK
National Doubles
No. 9: Candice Bernier / Catherine Rabatin (Saint Leo)
No. 34: Nicole Kempton / Alissia Kivi (SRU)
No. 35: Benedetta Raggiotti / Margaux Rene (Angelo)
No. 38: Sasa Felixova / Margaux Rene (Angelo)
 
National Singles
No. 12: Margaux Rene (Angelo)
No. 26: Vasilissa Kupriyanova (Angelo)
No. 41: Danaiya Amangazhiyeva (Angelo)
No. 67: Deren Ozel (Saint Leo)
 
Regional Doubles
No. 2: Nicole Kempton / Alissia Kivi (SRU / Atlantic)
No. 2: Candice Bernier / Catherine Rabatin (Leo / South)
No. 4: Sasa Felixova / Margaux Rene (Angelo / South Central)
No. 5: Maya Donkor / Lilly-Isabelle Muraske (Kingsville / South Central)
 
Regional Singles
No. 2: Margaux Rene (Angelo / South Central)
No. 5: Alissia Kivi (SRU / Atlantic)
No. 5: Jemimah Choi (TU / Midwest)
No. 7: Andrea Landaeta (Kingsville / South Central)
No. 8: Nicole Kempton (SRU / Atlantic)
No. 9: Amaia Balaguer Brau (SRU / Atlantic)
No. 9: Guadalupe Tocci (Kingsville / South Central)
No. 11: Dari Sakhanova (SRU / Atlantic)
No. 11: Lilly-Isabelle Muraske (Kingsville / South Central)
No. 13: Danaiya Amangazhiyeva (Angelo / South Central)
No. 15: Camila Keller (Leo / South)
No. 16: Anastasiia Melnikova (Angelo / South Central)
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 1-0
• Home Record: 0-0
• Away Record: 0-0
• Neutral Site Record: 1-0
• Head Coach: Matt Meredith | 28th season (394-224, .638)
 
KEMPTON AND BALAGUER BRAU APPROACHING HISTORY
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Slippery Rock will add at least two more athletes to its 100-win club this year.
 
Nicole Kempton and Amaia Balaguer Brau are both on track to reach 100 career victories at The Rock early in the season. Entering Friday's match, Balaguer Brau has 95 wins at SRU and Kempton is at 94.
 
When they reach the impressive milestone, the duo will become the 17th and 18th members of the program's 100-win club (Singles+Doubles). As such, Kempton and Balaguer Brau would join Tina Slovak and Dari Sakhanova as active members of The Rock's 100-win club.
 
A possibility also exists that Alissia Kivi could make it five members of this year's roster with 100 wins at SRU. Kivi has tallied 68 career wins already with the overwhelming majority of her sophomore year still to be played.
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
• A year after earning the doubles point in 17 of its 25 matches, Slippery Rock continued what's been a decade long trend of having strong doubles results by taking two of three flights in its season-opener against Frostburg State a month ago.
 
• SRU's second and third flight pairings of Amaia Balaguer Brau / Tina Slovak and Nadia Rodewald / Dari Sakhanova have combined to post a 15-2 record through the fall and its first dual match of the year.
 
• Balaguer Brau and Slovak, who are 19-4 as partners in dual match competition over their careers and 6-1 this season overall, occupied The Rock's second flight against FSU.
 
• In their first year as a team, Rodewald and Sakhanova have won nine of their first 10 matches together.
 
• The top of The Rock's doubles rotation is headlined by Nicole Kempton and Alissia Kivi: the 26th-ranked team in Division II. Kempton and Kivi are 7-4 versus fellow Division II competition this year.
 
• Slippery Rock swept all six singles matches against Frostburg State with the top half of its lineup all posting dominant wins as Balaguer Brau (6-1, 6-1), Kivi (6-0, 6-0) and Kempton (6-1, 6-0) set the tone for a team victory.
 
• Kivi is 10-1 in singles matches this season with both Kempton (8-2) and Balaguer Brau (8-3) close behind.
 
• Slippery Rock's fourth and fifth flights against Frostburg State were occupied by senior veterans Slovak (6-2, 4-6, 11-9) and Sakhanova (6-3, 6-2). Sakhanova holds a 6-3 individual record in 2025-26, while the FSU win pushed Slovak above the .500 mark at 2-1.
 
• Playing in her first dual match for The Rock, Rodewald, a Grand Valley State transfer, captured a smooth 6-0, 6-3 win in the sixth flight versus Frostburg State. A victory against Tiffin would push her season record to an even 5-5.
 
WEST CHESTER PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 4-2
• Home Record: 1-0
• Away Record: 2-1
• Neutral Site Record: 1-1
• Last 5 Matches: 3-2
• Head Coach: Tina Tharp | 18th season (176-144, .552)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (Last Match Order)
(Dual Match Record)
Singles
1-Delaney Tingle (2-4)
2-Ashleigh Grooms (2-2)
3-Brigitte Gravelle (3-3)
4-Alexandra Cave (3-3)
5-Lina Kroeger (3-2)
6-Rachel Haupt (2-1)
Doubles
1-Cave / Tingle (3-3)
2-Gravelle / Grooms (0-2)
3-Rachel Haupt / Elle Perrin (2-0)
 
RIDER PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 2-6
• Home Record: 0-2
• Away Record: 2-4
• Neutral Site Record: 0-0
• Last 5 Matches: 1-4
• Head Coach: Timothy Koch | Second season (11-19, .367)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (Last Match Order)
(Dual Match Record)
Singles
1-Lisa Dierick (6-2)
2-Jolie Kaiser (1-7)
3-Daniela Naves (4-4)
4-Chloe Monachelli (3-2)
5-Kashish Kant (1-4)
6-Elle Catanzarite (2-4)
Doubles
1-Dierick / Kant (1-2)
2-Anna Bong / Catanzarite (1-1)
3-Monachelli / Kaiser (0-1)
 
TEXAS A&M KINGSVILLE PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 4-2
• Home Record: 0-0
• Away Record: 3-0
• Neutral Site Record: 1-2
• Last 5 Matches: 3-2
• Head Coach: Autumn Williams | 16th season (169-156, .520)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (Last Match Order)
(Dual Match Record)
Singles
1-Guadalupe Tocci (4-2)
2-Andrea Landaeta (4-2)
3-Maya Donkor (4-2)
4-Annika Andersson Gomez (6-0)
5-Kaitlin Blount (1-2)
6-Emma Halvarsson (5-1)
Doubles
1-Tocci / Donkor (3-3)
2-Gomez / Blount (3-3)
3-Halvarsson / Landaeta (2-2)
 
SAINT LEO PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 4-3
• Home Record: 4-2
• Away Record: 0-1
• Neutral Site Record: 0-0
• Last 5 Matches: 3-2
• Head Coach: Ivan Fernandez | First season at SLU (4-3, .571)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (Last Match Order)
(Dual Match Record)
Singles
1-Candice Bernier (5-1)
2-Deren Ozel (5-2)
3-Camila Keller (4-1)
4-Nicol Novak (1-3)
5-Sophia Johnson (1-1)
6-Allie Fernandini (2-2)
Doubles
1- Catherine Rabatin / Bernier (3-4)
2-Ozel / Keller (5-2)
3-Johnson / Novak (4-0)
 
ANGELO STATE PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 10-0
• Home Record: 2-0
• Away Record: 3-0
• Neutral Site Record: 5-0
• Last 5 Matches: 5-0
• Head Coach: Jason Potthoff | Second season (29-6, .829)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (Last Match Order)
(Dual Match Record)
Singles
1-Margaux Rene (6-1)
2-Danaiya Amangazhiyeva (8-0)
3-Benedetta Raggiotti (9-0)
4-Anna Waché (5-3)
5-Anastasiia Melnikova (8-1)
6-Sasa Felixova (9-1)
Doubles
1-Rene / Raggiotti (8-1)
2-Felixova / Melnikova (1-1)
3-Amangazhiyeva / Jade Bestagno (7-3)
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock makes its 2026 on-campus debut when it hosts Fairmont State University 1 p.m. March 29 at the SRU Tennis Courts.





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