Women’s Tennis Hosts Rider, NJIT for Back-To-Back Matches

Thursday, March 30

Philadelphia PA

2:00 PM

Temple University

Rider

Photo by: Elita Odartei

Women’s Tennis Hosts Rider, NJIT for Back-To-Back Matches

3.29.23 | Women's Tennis

PHILADELPHIA – Temple women's tennis (12-4) will host the likes of Rider (2-8) on Thursday, March 30, at 2:00 p.m., and NJIT (6-6) on Friday, March 31, for a match scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Both matches are scheduled to take place at the TU Pavilion on Temple's campus.

THE OWLS:

Temple is led by three dominant teams in doubles play who have a combined 28-4 record so far this spring. No.5 Jamie Wei and Maiko Uchijima are a perfect 11-0 from the first position while Veronika Kulhava and Evie Wei are 10-3 from the second. Thamara Frasser Kawaratani and Sena Takebe round out the lineup from the third position with a 7-1 record.
Junior Sena Takebe picked up her 10^thvictory of the spring against George Mason on Sunday. She has a 7-3 record in the fifth and sixth positions alone providing balance for the Owls through their lineup.
Once Friday's match against NJIT is complete, Temple will have three more matches against Villanova, Georgetown, and Bethune-Cookman before heading to Orlando for the AAC Conference Championships on April 19.

SCOUTING RIDER:

Rider is coming off a loss to MAAC opponent Fairfield on Sunday, March 26 by a final score of 1-6. That result marked the fourth straight loss for the Broncs over the past three weeks with their last victory coming against Binghamton on Sunday, Feb. 19.
The Broncs have back-to-back matches of their own this week playing Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, MD on Wednesday, March 29 before heading to Temple's campus on Thursday.
Rider lost its two best players in Ally Garofoli and Capucine Thuilot to graduation last spring forcing this year's class to step up. Current junior Agnese Ceccarelli went 4-2 last season in her limited appearances appearing in the fourth, fifth and sixth positions last season.
Thursday will mark the sixth matchup between Temple and Rider's women's tennis teams. Temple currently leads the series 5-0 with the most recent match taking place on February 7, 2020.

SCOUTING NJIT:

NJIT will be coming off a 13-day break between matches when they visit Philadelphia to face Temple on Friday morning.
The Highlanders are currently on a three-game skid dropping matches to Northwestern State, Nicholls, and Southeastern Louisiana over the past two weeks.
NJIT is led by freshman Paula Menendez Alvarez who has a 7-3 record in spring play so far. She is 7-3 in her last 10 singles play matches with all her appearances coming in the fifth or sixth positions.
The match against Temple on Friday will mark only the third time both teams have met and the first since 2007. Temple holds the series record 2-0 with the last win coming on February 17, 2007, in Tenafly, NJ.
Graduate student Joleta Budiman participated in the ITA Super Regionals back in October for NJIT after picking up three wins in the ITA Northeast Regionals earlier in the month. So far this spring, she is 3-1 from the second position of singles play.

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