MALIBU, California – The #8 Pepperdine women's tennis program takes its first road trip of the season, visiting two ranked Pac-12 foes in its first pair of at least seven road matches.
 
MATCH 3: #8 Pepperdine (2-0) at #6 Stanford (3-0) | Saturday, February 4 | 12 p.m. PT | Taube Family Tennis Center | Palo Alto, Calif.
 
MATCH 4: #8 Pepperdine (2-0) at #20 California (2-1) | Sunday, February 5 | 12 p.m. PT | Hellman Tennis Complex | Berkeley, Calif.
 
COVERAGE
Both matches will have live video and live stats available. Links for each can be found on PepperdineWaves.com.
 
SERIES HISTORY
Pepperdine has had the edge over Stanford as of late, winning five of the last six matches. The last Cardinal win in Palo Alto came in 2015. Last season, Pepperdine dominated #25 Stanford in Malibu, winning 4-1.
 
Pepperdine and Cal met three times last season, with all three matches coming down to the wire. In a top-10 season opener, the #7 Bears got the better of Pepperdine in Malibu last January with a 4-3 win. Cal won another 4-3 decision in March in Berkeley, but the Waves defeated Cal 4-1 at the 2022 ITA National Team Indoor Championships to advance to the semifinals.
 
SCOUTING THE WAVES
Pepperdine had little trouble in its opening weekend of the dual season, collecting 4-0 sweeps over both Clemson and Memphis to advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Seattle in mid-February. #12 Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) won both singles matches over the weekend, while Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden), #21 Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas), Nikki Redelijk (Windermere, Fla.) and Anna Campana (Hillsborough, Calif.) also won singles matches. The fourth-ranked doubles pair of Broadus and Tjen, along with Redelijk and Zaar, each won a pair of doubles matches as well.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
Stanford also punched its ticket to ITA Indoors with a pair of sweeps, taking down both Kansas State and Florida State last weekend. Their other win was a 7-0 win over UC Davis. Valencia Xu and Alexandra Yepifanova each have two dual singles wins this season. Four singles players and a doubles pair are ranked for the Cardinal: #11 Connie Ma, #38 Yepifanova, #44 Alexis Blokhina, #45 Angelica Blake and #36 Blokhina/Yepifanova.
 
California opened the season with wins over UC Santa Barbara and Princeton, but was denied a trip to ITA Indoors after falling to San Diego 4-1. Two Bears are ranked in singles, along with two doubles pairs: #16 Jessica Alsola, #93 Hannah Viller Moeller, #15 Alsola/Katja Wiersholm and #51 Alsola/Valentina Ivanov.
 
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