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No. 23 Alabama will Embark on Season’s First Road Trip to California
2/7/2019 2:18:00 PM | Men's Tennis
The Crimson Tide will face San Diego State on Friday and will follow with Pepperdine on Sunday
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men's tennis team will compete in its first pair of road tests when it travels to California this weekend. The Crimson Tide will first face San Diego State on Friday, at 5 p.m. CT at the Aztec Tennis Center, in San Diego, Calif., and will follow with a match on Sunday, against Pepperdine at 3 p.m. CT at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center, in Malibu, Calif.
Alabama (6-1) enters the weekend at No. 23 in the latest Oracle/ITA National Team Rankings and in the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top-25 Rankings.
Individually, senior No. 40 Mazen Osama sports a 4-2 record as the Tide's top player, while junior Edson Ortiz is a perfect 7-0 in dual matches. In addition, junior Zhe Zhou is off to 6-1 start and sophomore Jeremy Gschwendtner is undefeated (3-0) in his Alabama rookie season.
San Diego State (2-1) and Alabama will meet for the second time in program history after the Crimson Tide bested the Aztecs 4-1 in the inaugural matchup, on Feb. 11, 2018, in Tuscaloosa.
Sunday's contest against Pepperdine marks the ninth meeting between the two programs, as Alabama trails 5-4 in the all-time series. However, the Tide won the last meeting Feb. 9, 2018, 6-1, in Tuscaloosa.
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