Tennis Set for Season's First Road Trip

Bradley Tennis will visit SIU Edwardsville Friday and Saint Louis Saturday

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Women's Tennis 1/30/2020 8:56:00 AM

BRADLEY TENNIS NOTEBOOK
JAN. 30, 2020

2020 Overall Record: 1-1 (.500)
MVC Record: 0-0 (.000)

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Friday, Jan. 31 at SIU Edwardsville, 2 p.m. (Edwardsville, IL/Edwardsville YMCA-Meyer Center)
Saturday, Feb. 1 at Saint Louis, 5:30 p.m. (O'Fallon, IL/St. Clair Tennis Club)

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
Friday, Jan. 24 vs. IUPUI, H, W, 5-2 | Recap
Saturday, Jan. 25 vs. Murray State, H, L, 5-2 | Recap

MVC SINGLES PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK
Sandra Maletin, Bradley, Jr., Belgrade, Serbia

Maletin turned in a pair of dominant, straight-sets wins at the No. 1 position during Bradley's season-opening weekend versus IUPUI and Murray State.
The two-time MVC All-Select honoree began the season Friday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory against IUPUI's Krystal Grubb, giving the Braves a 2-0 lead in their eventual 5-2 victory against the Jaguars.
In Saturday's matchup against Murray State, Maletin flipped the script from a straight-sets loss to the Racers' Claire Chang last year by rolling to a 6-1, 6-2 win against the two-time All-OVC performer to put the Braves on the board.
With her two weekend wins, Maletin moved into 10th place on Bradley's career singles victory list, now boasting a 47-23 (.671) career record.
Maletin's selection for the MVC Singles Player of the Week Tuesday was her fourth career honor.

DOUBLES TEAM-OF-THE-WEEK NOMINEE
Bozana Lojpur, Bradley, So., Burnaby, British Columbia
Nikki Perlwitz, Bradley, So., Weston, FL

The Lojpur/Perlwitz duo enjoyed a 2-0 season-opening weekend playing in Bradley's No. 2 Doubles position, posting a pair of 6-3 victories against IUPUI and Murray State.
Friday's win against IUPUI clinched the doubles point for the Braves in an eventual 5-2 victory.
Saturday's win against the senior twin-sisters pairing of Anja and Sara Loncarevic evened the doubles score at 1-1 against Murray State.

CRACKING THE TOP 10 LISTS

Junior Sandra Maletin and senior Natalia Barbery both cracked Bradley career top-10 lists during the team's season-opening weekend.
With her pair of wins at No. 1 Singles, Maletin overtook Cassia Wojtalik (2011-15) for 10th on Bradley's career singles wins list and now owns a 47-23 (.671) record.
By teaming with Maletin in Friday's 6-2 win at No. 1 Doubles against IUPUI, Barbery earned her 45th career doubles victory to move into a 3-way tie for 10th on Bradley's career doubles wins list.

WEEKEND TRIP TO SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS

Bradley will return to action by playing a pair of dual matches in southwestern Illinois this weekend.
The Braves will visit SIU Edwardsville Friday afternoon in Edwardsville, IL and Saint Louis Saturday evening in O'Fallon, IL.
Having won three of the last four meetings, Bradley will be trying to even its all-time record against SIU Edwardsville, which owns a 6-5 edge against the Braves.
Saint Louis maintains a 14-4 advantage all-time against Bradley, but the Braves snapped a 10-match losing skid versus the Billikens with a 4-3 home victory last year.
Bradley has not won a road dual against Saint Louis since a 6-3 victory April 14, 1994, currently a 7-match road drought in the series.

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