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Lambda · Masters Series Champion

While Florida women were hosting Auburn, Florida men travelled to Auburn.

The Blaydes brothers (Auburn) defeated Henry Jefferson+ (Florida) 7-6(4)

Henry Jefferson at singles 1 lost 4 & 4
Billy Blaydes at singles 2 won 6-7 6-1 6-2
Freddy Blaydes at singles 4 won 6-2 7-6 won MTB (score unknown)

Auburn win 6-1

-- Edited by Lambda on Saturday 21st of February 2026 09:06:30 PM

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

A great win for Talia too over the No 2 blue chip recruit, which got the team point that clinched a 4-2 win at Stanford. Good move to move her up to court 4. She had to come back at least twice from a break down in the final set while I was watching.

4: Talia Neilsen-Gatenby (Clemson) d. Tianmei Wang (Stanford) [WR 908] 1-6 6-2 7-5

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Charlie Swaine was also clutch to get the winning team point for South Carolina with an upset 4-3 road win at Oklahoma.

6: Charlie Swaine (SC) def. Hank Trondson (OU) 6-7(6) 6-4, 6-4

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Will Jansen got a win in doubles and Derrick Chen a win in singles as Georgia upset LSU 4-0

2. Will Jansen/Gabriele Vulpitta (UGA) def. #63 Matias Ponce De Leon/Erik Arutiunian (LSU) 6-1
3. Derrick Chen/Noah Johnston (UGA) vs. Enzo Kohlmann/Olaf Pieczkowski (LSU) 5-6 unfinished

2. #30 Will Jansen (UGA) vs. #53 Erik Arutiunian (LSU) 3-6, 4-3 unfinished
4. Derrick Chen (UGA) def. Enzo Kohlmann (LSU) 6-3, 6-2

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Wake Forest got revenge against Baylor for last week's defeat in the National Indoor Championships with a 4-2 home win.

Charlie Robertson and Luca Pow won doubles against Louis Bowden and Devin Badenhorst 6-2

Luca Pow (Wake Forest) moved down to singles 4, got a 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2 win
Charlie Robertson (Wake Forest) got his personal revenge against Luc Koenig (Baylor) for defeating him last week, with a 6-3 6-1 win
Louis Bowden (Baylor) was unfinished at singles 6 after trading 6-3 sets, he was 1-5 down in the third.

No other men's matches of interest today.

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

A number of SEC and ACC women's conference matches today

Ella Mcdonald (LSU) suffered her first defeat in college, playing at No 1 singles lost to #11 Emily Welker 4-6 6-7(4) - (LSU lost against Ole Miss with Cadence Brace and Kayla Cross off playing pros)

Kristina Paskauskas (Alabama) maintained her unbeaten spring season at No 1 singles with a 7-6(6) 6-4 win. She came back from 0-5 in the 1st set tie-break to take it. (Alabama d. Mississippi State 4-1)

Erin Pearce (Vanderbilt) took no prisoners as she got a 0 & 0 win at No 5 singles. She is joint leader for wins in the Vanderbilt team with 11 wins. (Vandy won 4-0)

Ohio State open Big Ten play with a 4-3 win over Oklahoma State, but Flora and Hep didn't get to play. Flora "won" her doubles and Hep "won" her singles by forfeit as Oklahoma State only had 5 players available.

Eva Shaw (Florida State) got their only singles win at No1 singles, 6-2, 7-6(8). Florida State lost to Notre Dame 2-4. I think with a 2-7 record and languishing at 216 in the latest live rankings it's fair to say they won't be making the NCAAs this year.

In a non-conference match, Savannah Dada-Mascoll (App State) looked a level above everyone else as she raced to a 6-1 3-0 lead before letting her foot off the gas and winning 6-1 6-3 against Wake Forest's No 1. Allegra Hodson (App State) at No 4 singles lost 2 & 5.

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Ollie may have been wiser to have gone pro. He owned the No 1 court in San Diego for the previous two years, being unbeaten. He has just had his 2nd loss this year on it.

1: #32 Ollie Tarvet WR327 (San Diego) lost to #61 Spencer Johnson (UCLA) WR946 3-6 6-7(4)

Ella is also finding college tennis challenging; now on a run of 5 college matches without a win ( 1 loss, 4 unfinished ). Lots of errors today and having trouble with her serve. I counted at least 5 DFs in her first 2 service games. it's #1 Georgia next for LSU on Saturday. She'll need to be on top of her game for that one.

1: Ella Mcdonald/ Kayla Cross (LSU) def. Friedman/Buchwald (South Carolina) 6-4

3: Ella Mcdonald (LSU) vs Sara Borkop (South Carolina) 6-4 2-6 *0-1 unf.
#9 LSU def. #17 South Carolina 4-1
Dani Piani (SC) still not dressing to play. Don't know if she's injured or sitting the year out.

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Brooke continues to impress with another 6-0 6-3 win at No 4 for Florida for a 5-2 record in her 6 weeks. It's the 3rd time in her last 4 matches she has finished first, with the other finishing 2nd and the first team point for Florida. Prior to that she got a 6-2 win in doubles to be 5-0 for the year with her partner Valery Gynina.
Gabia split sets 6-2 3-6. With her game with long rallies she will always struggle to finish in dual matches that are stopped at clinch point. I can see a world before long where Brooke swaps with Gabia in the line-up but the coach may want to keep Brooke at No 4 for whats seeming like a likely team point.

2: Brooke Black/Valery Gynina (Florida) def. Gomez/Schafer (Arkansas) 6-2

3: #23 Gabia Paskauskas (UF) vs. Anet Koskel (Arkansas) 6-2 3-6 Unf.
4: Brooke Black (UF) def. Alexandra Panagiotidou (Arkansas) 6-0 6-3
#46 Florida def. Arkansas 4-0
Next for Florida is #7 Oklahoma at home on Saturday

At the same time Kristina was playing and lost her singles.
1: Kristina Paskauskas / Karla Bartel (Alabama) def. Zhu / Hammond (Kentucky) 6-2

1: #53 Kristina Paskauskas (Bama) lost to #119 Julia Zhu (UK) 6-7 1-6
#29 Alabama def. Kentucky 4-3
Next for Alabama is #14 Tennessee at home. That'll be tough for Kristina who will be due to play Katrina Scott WR284 who finally made her debut for Tennessee yesterday. But for challenges like this is, I presume, why she chose to transfer to a team in the strongest conference where she would be their No1.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to add to the Brooke narrative, I see she was Freshman of the Week and they had a big poster of her up:

www.instagram.com/p/DU6Q0UvAcjl/

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

Weekly awards for week of 18 to 24 February

Savannah Dada-Mascoll - Senior - Appalachian State - Sun Belt Women's player of the week
App State senior Savannah Dada-Mascoll finished the weekend 2-0 with a pair of wins in straight sets over Austin Peay and Wake Forest.

Ashira Murray - Junior - Towson - CAA Women's Player of the Week
Murray improved to 7-0 in singles this spring with victories in matches against Georgetown and Navy, competing at No. 4 singles.

Savannah Dada-Mascoll (& Taya Powell) - Appalachian State - Sun Belt Women's Doubles Team of the week
The App State duo of Savanah Dada-Mascoll and Taya Powell won both of their doubles matches for the weekend in 6-3 fashion.

Ferran Redza (& Valentin Faure) - Freshman - Santa Clara - West Coast Conference Men's Doubles Team of the week.
Valentin Faure and Ferran Redza secured the doubles point in both Santa Clara matches last weekend.

Raffaello Papajcik (& Aaron Beduhn) - Senior - Denver - Summit League Men's Doubles Team of the week
Duo went 2-0 on the weekend with matching 6-3 wins to help Denver win the doubles point in both duals against DePaul

Oliver Hague (& Gur Trakhtenberg) - Junior - William & Mary - CAA Men's Doubles Team of the Week
Hague and Trakhtenberg went 2-0 at No. 1 doubles to help William & Mary earn team wins over Navy (7-0) and Brown (4-2).

Hannah Smith (& Clara Nilsson) - Senior - DePaul - Big East Women's Doubles Team of the week
Nilsson and Smith enjoyed an undefeated weekend with victories at No. 1 doubles against Omaha and Creighton.

Adam Groves (& Semen Agynskyy) - Senior - St John's - Big East Men's Doubles Team of the week
Groves and Agynskyy logged a 2-0 record while competing at No. 2 doubles this weekend.

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Lots happening... Friday and Sunday is match day for the top conferences except the SEC women which is Thursday and Saturday

Playing at No 1. #29 Henry Jefferson (Florida) got a great road win over #94 Nicolas Arseneault (Kentucky) WR514 (7-5, 6-1).
Florida won 4-3

At 2 singles #30 Will Jansen (Georgia) beat #108 Alex Frusina (Texas A&M) 6-3 7-5
At No 4 singles Derick Chen (Georgia) lost 3&3
#13 Georgia won 4-3 against #14 TAM.

A great day for Roan Jones (North Carolina)
At No 1 doubles Roan Jones & Ant Wright (UNC) defeated #8 Alex Chang/Alex Razeghi (Stanford), 6-4
At No 2 singles #115 Roan Jones (UNC) def. #48 Hudson Rivera (Stanford), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3)
At No 6 singles Ant Wright (UNC) lost to Nico Godsick (Stan) 2&5
UNC upset #12 Stanford 4-2. UNC Men's highest ranked win in 5 years. Roan got the winning team point.

At No 3 dubs Luca Pow and Charlie Robertson (Wake Forest) got another doubles win, 6-4. They have 6 wins since being put together, the most on the team.
At No 3 singles Luca was first to finish with a 1&4 win
Charlie was unfinished at No 4 singles, 6-3, 2-6, 2-0
#4 Wake Forest defeated #28 Clemson 4-0

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Erin Pearce got another win for Vanderbilt, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2 at No 6. It was her first win against a ranked opponent and puts her 8-1 for February and on a 7 match win streak.
But #39 Vanderbilt lost to #4 Texas A&M 2-5

Jasmine Conway helped #27 NC State get a 4-1 statement win at previously unbeaten #7 California.
Jasmine won doubles and then at No 6 in singles got a 7-6(3), 6-4 win

Talia Neilsen-Gatenby (Clemson) won at her new No 4 position 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Clemson beat Notre Dame 4-1

Immi Haddad (USC), who now seems to be installed at their No 2 position, lost to Mayu Crossley (UCLA) WR495, 2-6 4-6
#8 USC lost to #5 UCLA 1-6 in the cross town rivalry.

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

The women's match of the day was No 9 LSU at No 1 Georgia. In front of the largest, noiseist and most intimidating crowd in women's tennis, LSU were competitive in all doubles and singles but lost 0-4. In singles Ella came back from 1-4 down to take the first set 6-4. In the 2nd she came back from a break down to force a tie-break which she lost. The third was unfinished on serve at 4-5.

1. #40 Kayla Cross/Ella McDonald (LSU) def. #8 Deniz Dilek/Aysegul Mert (UGA) 6-2
3. Ella McDonald (LSU) vs. #41 Deniz Dilek (UGA) 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 4-5, unfinished

Next up for LSU is a home match against Florida. If everyone plays in their established positions it will see Ella play Gabia and Brooke will play Kuhl.

Brooke maintained her unbeaten singles record in February and was second to finish despite playing 3 sets while all the other 4 still in play were in the 2nd set. She did however lose her unbeaten doubles record. Gabia lost a tight match, having lost 5 points in a row to turn 3 set points into a tie-break lost.

2: #44 Mamedova / Laskevich (OK) def. Gynina / Black (UF) 6-4
3: Edda Mamedova (OK) def. #23 Gabia Paskauskas (UF) 7-6 (8-6), 7-5
4: Brooke Black (UF) def. Chloe Noel (OK) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
No 46 Florida won 4-3 against No 11 Oklahoma
Florida are up to No 28 in the live rankings.

Kristina put up a very good performance against Katrina Scott, taking her to a 3rd set
1: #53 Kristina Paskauskas (Alabama) vs. Katrina Scott (Tennessee ) WR284, 5-7 6-2 1-4 Unf.
Alabama lost 0-4

In the Big Ten, 5 Brits were in action as Ohio State hosted Michigan State, but it was a total mismatch in all bar 1 singles match.
1. Hephzibah Oluwadare/Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev (OSU) def. Oriana Parkins-Godwin/Issey Purser (MSU-W) 6-0
2. #60 Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry (OSU) vs. Ellie Blackford/Hanna Tsitavets (MSU-W) 4-1, unfinished

3. Ellie Blackford (MSU-W) def. #44 Nao Nishino (OSU) 6-1, 1-6, 1-0 (10-7)
4. Hephzibah Oluwadare (OSU) def. Hanna Tsitavets (MSU-W) 6-2, 6-3
6. Flora Johnson (OSU) def. Oriana Parkins-Godwin (MSU-W) 6-1, 6-2
No 2 Ohio State won 6-1

In the ACC, NC State took advantage of a Stanford team without their No 1 Glozman. Jasmine was the first to finish.
6) #106 Jasmine Conway (NCST) def. Morgan Shaffer (STAN) 6-1, 6-2
No 27 NC State won 4-0
NC State are up to No 10 in the live rankings.

In a weekend off from conference action, Florida State got a couple of much needed 4-0 wins against lower opposition. Abby Kelliher got a rare outing and in the first match lost 1 game across her doubles and singles matches.
In doubles across the 2 matches, Eva Shaw won 6-0 and 6-2 and Abby also won 6-0 and 6-2
In singles Eva won 6-4 6-4 and 6-2 6-0
Abby was 6-1 6-0 and 6-7(6) 4-1 unf.
Florida State move up to No 171 in the live rankings.

They travel to North Carolina to play NC State and Wake Forest next weekend.

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Lambda wrote:
The women's match of the day was No 9 LSU at No 1 Georgia. In front of the largest, noiseist and most intimidating crowd in women's tennis, LSU were competitive in all doubles and singles but lost 0-4. In singles Ella came back from 1-4 down to take the first set 6-4. In the 2nd she came back from a break down to force a tie-break which she lost. The third was unfinished on serve at 4-5.

1. #40 Kayla Cross/Ella McDonald (LSU) def. #8 Deniz Dilek/Aysegul Mert (UGA) 6-2
3. Ella McDonald (LSU) vs. #41 Deniz Dilek (UGA) 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 4-5, unfinished

Next up for LSU is a home match against Florida. If everyone plays in their established positions it will see Ella play Gabia and Brooke will play Kuhl.

Brooke maintained her unbeaten singles record in February and was second to finish despite playing 3 sets while all the other 4 still in play were in the 2nd set. She did however lose her unbeaten doubles record. Gabia lost a tight match, having lost 5 points in a row to turn 3 set points into a tie-break lost.

2: #44 Mamedova / Laskevich (OK) def. Gynina / Black (UF) 6-4
3: Edda Mamedova (OK) def. #23 Gabia Paskauskas (UF) 7-6 (8-6), 7-5
4: Brooke Black (UF) def. Chloe Noel (OK) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
No 46 Florida won 4-3 against No 11 Oklahoma
Florida are up to No 28 in the live rankings.

Kristina put up a very good performance against Katrina Scott, taking her to a 3rd set
1: #53 Kristina Paskauskas (Alabama) vs. Katrina Scott (Tennessee ) WR284, 5-7 6-2 1-4 Unf.
Alabama lost 0-4

In the Big Ten, 5 Brits were in action as Ohio State hosted Michigan State, but it was a total mismatch in all bar 1 singles match.
1. Hephzibah Oluwadare/Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev (OSU) def. Oriana Parkins-Godwin/Issey Purser (MSU-W) 6-0
2. #60 Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry (OSU) vs. Ellie Blackford/Hanna Tsitavets (MSU-W) 4-1, unfinished

3. Ellie Blackford (MSU-W) def. #44 Nao Nishino (OSU) 6-1, 1-6, 1-0 (10-7)
4. Hephzibah Oluwadare (OSU) def. Hanna Tsitavets (MSU-W) 6-2, 6-3
6. Flora Johnson (OSU) def. Oriana Parkins-Godwin (MSU-W) 6-1, 6-2
No 2 Ohio State won 6-1

In the ACC, NC State took advantage of a Stanford team without their No 1 Glozman. Jasmine was the first to finish.
6) #106 Jasmine Conway (NCST) def. Morgan Shaffer (STAN) 6-1, 6-2
No 27 NC State won 4-0
NC State are up to No 10 in the live rankings.

In a weekend off from conference action, Florida State got a couple of much needed 4-0 wins against lower opposition. Abby Kelliher got a rare outing and in the first match lost 1 game across her doubles and singles matches.
In doubles across the 2 matches, Eva Shaw won 6-0 and 6-2 and Abby also won 6-0 and 6-2
In singles Eva won 6-4 6-4 and 6-2 6-0
Abby was 6-1 6-0 and 6-7(6) 4-1 unf.
Florida State move up to No 171 in the live rankings.

They travel to North Carolina to play NC State and Wake Forest next weekend.

Thanks Lambda - remind me, and the other less initiated, how do these conference matches count at the moment? do the conference winners qualify for the NCAA teams finals in (May?)? And how is the May team event made up?

thank you - and sorry if youve explained before, I find my college knowledge goes in one year and out the other!

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

To be honest Jon it doesn't really matter to us if its a conference or non-conference match. All matches count towards the national rankings which determines qualification for the NCAA. Conference matches also count towards the conference table which determines seedings for the Conference Championships and bragging rights for being top of the table.
With the way the rankings work who the opponents are and what their ranking is is what matters for the rankings, and after the National Indoors most of the schedule is set to be against the team's conference opponents. That matters because the stronger the conference the more ranking points are available to those teams. The SEC in both the men's and women's this year are strong and most of the big ranking points opportunities are in the SEC conference matches whereas the likes of TCU and San Diego men will have little opportunity for big ranking points in their conference matches because their conferences are relatively weak.