No. 12 Florida Meets Unranked Missouri in Columbia

COLUMBIA, MO. — No.12 Florida will be closing out their weekend in Columbia, Missouri. The Gators are set to face Mizzou on Sunday morning at the Mizzou Tennis Complex. Doubles will open at 11 a.m. followed by singles play. Florida is hoping to extend their win streak to 5 after defeating Arkansas 6-1 on Friday.

GATOR SUCCESS

No. 15 Rachel Gailis (11-3, 6-1 SEC) has recorded the most victories against nationally ranked opponents so far. Gailis has posted three top-30 victories against No. 29 Dasha Vidmanova, No. 27 Sofia Cabezas and highly ranked No. 14 Carolyn Ansari. Gailis is hoping to continue dominating in singles action and looks to extend her five-match win streak against Missouri.

Freshman powerhouse, Qavia Lopez (9-2, 5-1 SEC) snagged her fifth win of the spring season against Arkansas putting her on a three–match win streak. Lopez’s impressive performance in singles play opened the door for her to notch a national ranking by the ITA and SEC Freshman of the Week. Despite not yet seeing any ranked players, Qavia sits at No.109.

No. 52 Sara Dahlstrom ended her undefeated streak on Friday. Dahlstrom moved to 4-1 in the SEC and 5-4 overall. Dahlstrom also has two top-30 wins after she defeated No. 29 Mia Kupres from Texas A&M and defeated Georgia’s Alexandra Vecic ranked at No. 25 earlier in the season.

On the doubles side, undefeated duo Carly Briggs and Qavia Lopez recorded their third win of the spring season. The duo is now 3-0 after defeating Arkansas’ Lenka Stara and Grace O’Donnell.

Alicia Dudeney and Malwina Rowinska posted their second doubles win as a pair on Friday evening after securing the doubles point for the Gators and moved to 2-0.

ABOUT MISSOURI

Ahead of Sunday’s match, Mizzou is unranked and has gone winless in conference action. The Tigers only have one ranked player in singles and one ranked doubles team. Mae Canete sits at No. 117 with a 14-7 overall record and 2-2 in conference play. Canete is also one half of the doubles pair with Christine Canete and sits at No. 53 posting a 16-9 overall record and only recording one win in the regular season.

LAST TIME OUT

The Gators defeated Arkansas in Razorback territory on Friday evening. The 6-1 victory extended Florida’s win streak to 4 and gave two doubles teams the undefeated title.

UF snagged the doubles point with duo Carly Briggs/ Qavia Lopez taking the first win on Court 2 against Lenka Stara and Grace O’Donnell 6-1. Alicia Dudeney and Malwina Rowinska followed…