Alabama Men’s Tennis Hosts Michigan State Saturday

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 quarterfinals of the ITA Midwest Regionals during the 2022 fall season
Both Anthony Pero and Luke Baylis went undefeated in singles last weekend, helping MSU to its first two wins of the season
The Spartans have two doubles pairings with a 2-0 record with duo Reed Crocker and Anthony Pero and partners Ozan Baris and Max Sheldon undefeated on the year

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