The early season traveling Tarleton tennis team is on the road once again this week, set to play two matches in Nashville on Friday-Saturday.
 
First, they'll be at Lipscomb on Friday at 1 p.m. CT, followed by a match against Belmont at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday.
 
The Texans have started the 2022 spring campaign 1-2, but have played well in all three matches, taking on two top-20 ranked teams on the road.
 
Most recently, the Texans were in Norman facing off against the No. 18 Oklahoma Sooners. Tarleton's No. 1 position player Deniza Marcinkevica had the best performance, playing Carmen Corley tight to start, the No. 105 ranked player in NCAA Division I. The two were tied at 3-3 in the first set before Corley took over from there, winning 6-3, 6-1.
 
Head coach Elianne Douglas-Miron tweaked the lineup for the match, inserting Anna Davidson at the No. 6 spot in singles, and pairing Martha Makantasi with Natalia Komar in doubles at No. 2, with Elsa Boisson and Celia Vaudiau together at No. 3.
 
Tarleton's top pair in Marcinkevica and Jemi Aguilar are 1-0 so far through three matches, having unfinished matches against Texas A&M and Oklahoma due to the doubles point already being clinched in each instance.
 
Looking ahead to the next two days, this will be Lipcomb's first match of the spring, last playing at the ITA Regionals in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Oct. 21-25. Last season, the Bison went 10-9 overall, winners of three of their last four matches. They matched up with Belmont themselves early in the year, winning 5-2.
 
Belmont is 2-0 thus far with home wins over Middle Tennessee and Lee, 5-1 and 6-1 wins, respectively. Gina Feistel and Somer Henry both played in the No. 1 position in each match, both chalking up the lone losses in singles for the Bruins. Feistel and Henry each won their match in the No. 2 spot, with Abi Solomon owning a 2-0 record in position No. 3.
 
After the Nashville trip, the Texans will have three more road matches before finally playing one at the Potishman-Lard Tennis Courts. It will be a three-match-in-three-days stretch from Friday through Sunday at Tyler Junior College, Louisiana Tech and Grambling State. After that, Tarleton will play four straight matches in Stephenville from Feb. 11-20.