TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men’s tennis team continues its homestand, hosting the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday at 11 a.m. CT at the Roberta Alison Baumgardner Tennis Facility.
The Crimson Tide (4-0) remains undefeated in the 2023 campaign after topping Chattanooga, 7-0, and UAB, 5-2, last weekend. The Spartans enter with a 2-2 record after winning a double header in their last outing.
The Match
Against: Michigan State
Date: Saturday, Jan. 28
Time: 11 a.m. CT
Venue: Roberta Alison Baumgardner Tennis Facility
How to Follow
- Links to live scoring and the video stream will be available at RollTide.com
- Updates will be provided on the team’s Twitter account @AlabamaMTN
The Crimson Tide
- UA enters the match undefeated with four wins on the season
- The last time Alabama posted a 4-0 start to a season was in 2018
- Alabama is coming off a pair of wins, defeating UAB (5-2) and Chattanooga (7-0) last Sunday
- UA’s record includes two shutouts as the team swept both Samford and Chattanooga
- The Crimson Tide has clinched the doubles point in all four matches this season
- Enzo Aguard ranks 35th in the latest ITA rankings, holding an 11-6 overall record and a 3-1 record in dual matches at the No. 2 spot
- The UA sophomore has won eight of his last 10 singles matches
- No. 96 Roan Jones heads into Saturday with 4-0 dual record in singles and is 15-3 on the year which includes a win over No. 6 Nikola Slavic (Ole Miss) last fall
- German Samofalov and Filip Planinsek join Jones with undefeated dual match records, as all three head into the weekend with four singles wins
Scouting Michigan State
- The Tide and Spartans will go head-to-head for the eighth time in program history with UA holding a 6-1 advantage in the series
- Alabama won the last meeting in 1996, 6-1
- Michigan State is 2-2 to start the season
- The team captured wins over Brown, 4-1, and Bellarmine, 5-2, at home but fell in road matches to then-No. 25 Middle Tennessee, 6-1, and then-No. 24 Auburn, 4-3
- MSU freshman Ozan Baris had an accomplished fall season after reaching the consolation semifinals at the ITA All-American Championships and winning the US Open Juniors Doubles Title
- Baris is the first Spartan to earn an ITA singles ranking since 2019, entering the weekend ranked No. 26
- Freshman David Saye reached the…
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