THE MATCHES
Tarleton Women's Tennis will open the 2020 season with back-to-back home matches on Friday and Saturday at the Potishman-Lard Tennis Complex in Stephenville. The Texans will host Texas Wesleyan in the season opener Friday at 3 p.m. and Tyler Junior College Saturday at 1 p.m. All matches are free of charge.
 
GAME COVERAGE
A complete recap of the match will be available on TarletonSports.com following the match.
 
ABOUT THE TEXANS
Tarleton has a youthful team with four underclassmen, one junior transfer and a single senior, as well as a first-year head coach. Elianne Douglas-Miron takes over as the new head coach following the retirement of longtime head coach Lance Drake. She led the Texans to the LSC Tournament Championship match last spring as the interim head coach with upsets of Cameron and No. 18 Angelo State. She has returning letterwinners Alicia Barbaroux, Faustine Palatte Nathalie Ulander back in the lineup.
 
NEW PLAYERS
Junior transfer from India Gaayatri Shankar and freshmen Delfina Rodriguez (Argentina) and Celia Vaudiau (France) join the returners to round out Tarleton's six-player lineup.
 
BARBAROUX RANKED BY ITA
Senior Alicia Barbaroux leads the group as the team's lone senior. The native of France is a two-time All-LSC and the 2018 LSC Player of the Year. She enters the season as the No. 35-ranked individual in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and has four career wins against nationally-ranked opponents. She is also ranked No. 3 in the South Central region.
 
CAREER TARLETON RECORDS

Alicia Barbaroux	36-18, 12-4 LSC (singles); 33-24, 8-7 LSC (doubles)
Nathalie Ulander	11-6, 3-3 LSC (singles); 9-7, 5-1 LSC (doubles)
Faustine Palatte	15-4, 5-1 LSC (singles); 10-8, 3-3 LSC (doubles)
Gaayatri Shankar	N/A
Delfina Rodriguez	N/A
Celia Vaudiau	N/A

UP NEXT FOR TARLETON
Tarleton will head to Edmond, Oklahoma next weekend for matches on Friday, Feb. 7 against Northeastern State and Saturday, Feb. 8 against Central Oklahoma.