ORLANDO, Fla. The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team had its four-match winning streak come to an end in a 5-2 loss to No. 31 Angelo State University Friday at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.
 
Slippery Rock ends its Florida trip with a 4-1 overall record. The nationally ranked Rambelles improve to 14-0. For the fifth time this season, SRU earned the team doubles point, but Angelo rallied to the victory by taking five of the six singles flights.
 
In a battle of nationally ranked duos, Nicole Kempton and Alissia Kivi – the No. 37 doubles team in Division II – beat No. 32 Benedetta Raggiotti and Margaux Rene 6-4 from the top flight. Kempton and Kivi are now 12-8 as a team this season. The win also marked the 99th collegiate victory for Kempton.
 
While Vasilissa Kupriianova and Danaiya Amangazhiyeva would edge Amaia Balaguer Brau and Tina Slovak 6-3 in second flight competition, The Rock were able to clinch the doubles point thanks to yet another great showing out of Nadia Rodewald and Dari Sakhanova in the third flight.
 
Rodewald and Sakhanova captured their 13th win in 14 matches as a team, giving SRU the first team point of the day in the process, by way of a 6-3 triumph over Jade Bestagno and Sasa Felixova.

However, Angelo State rebounded from the doubles losses to record five singles wins to maintain its perfect record in 2025-26.
 
Slippery Rock's lone singles victory came out of the sixth flight where Rodewald earned a hard-fought 7-6 (7-2), 0-6, 1-0 (10-7) win against Anastasiia Melnikova. The decision moves Rodewald's season winning percentage above .500 to 7-6.
 
Angelo State's five singles wins included victories by No. 13 Rene against Balaguer Brau in the first flight (7-6, 6-3). ASU other two nationally ranked singles athletes – No. 21 Kupriianova and No. 59 Amangazhiyeva also achieved respective victories over Kivi (6-2, 6-1) and Kempton (6-0, 6-1).
 
The other two singles contests saw ASU wins from Raggiotti against Slovak (6-3, 6-3) and Sasa Felixova over Sakhanova (6-4, 6-1).
 
Slippery Rock returns home to host Fairmont State University for an Atlantic Region match 1 p.m. March 29 at the SRU Tennis Courts as part of its annual Warrier Day contest.





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