PEORIA, Ill. – Bradley Tennis will travel to Springfield, Missouri for the 2020 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Tennis Championships and open play against Drake Friday at 1 p.m. in the quarterfinal round.
BRADLEY NECESSITIES
Date | Time: Friday, April 23, 2021 | 2 p.m.
Teams: Drake (8-8, 2-3 MVC) at Bradley (10-6, 3-2 MVC)
Location: Springfield, Mo. | Cooper Tennis Complex
Live Stats: https://bubrav.es/3ekn9ti
Post-Match Information: BradleyBraves.com
SERIES HISTORY | LAST MEETING
- Drake has the all-time series lead, 25-2.
- Bradley has won the last two matchups against Drake, most recently winning 4-3 on April 10, 2021 at the Clubs at River City.
- Bradley picked up the doubles point in the last matchup, winning all three matches.
- Singles wins at Nos. 1, 2 and 6 pushed Bradley to victory.
- Nikki Perlwitz clinched the victory for the Braves with a 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 6 Singles.
PERLWITZ ON CRUISE CONTROL
- Nikki Perlwitz has dominated this season at No. 6 Singles and is currently on a six-match winning streak.
- In her last two Missouri Valley Conference singles matches, Perlwitz has dropped a total of seven games.
- In her last four singles matches, all straight set wins, Perlwitz has dropped a total of only 14 games.
- Across both singles and No. 3 Doubles with Bozana Lojpur, Perlwitz has won nine of her last eleven total matches.
- Earlier today, she was recognized as All-Conference at No. 6 Singles by the Missouri Valley Conference.
TOP OF THE ORDER AGAINST THE BULLDOGS
- Sandra Maletin is 12-3 this season at No. 1 Singles, including 4-1 in Missouri Valley Conference play.
- She picked up a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win on April 10, 2021 against Liza Petushkovsa of Drake.
- Along with Bozana Lojpur, Bradley's top two singles players are undefeated in singles competition against Drake.
- Maletin and Lojpur were voted as members of the Missouri Valley Conference All-Select team earlier today
HISTORICAL WINNING TRENDS
- Bradley's victory secured its third straight winning season, the first time this mark has been achieved since 1991-93.
- The win also marked Bradley's second consecutive season with a winning conference record in which Missouri Valley Conference matches were played. It is the first time in program history Bradley has had back-to-back winning seasons as a member of the MVC.
- It is also the first time since 1991-92 the Braves have a winning record in conference play in back-to-back seasons.
- In 1991, the Braves went 4-2 in conference play as a member of the Gateway Conference before shifting to the Missouri Valley Conference, where they went 3-2 in 1992.
