Results

        NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana women's tennis, difficult to beat on its campus in recent years, opened its home schedule Monday with a 7-0 victory against city rival Loyola.
        XULA (1-1) has won eight straight and 18 of its last 19 home duals. XULA won its last 13 at home against NAIA top-25 opponents; XULA is ranked third, and Loyola is 15th.
        It was XULA's first competition in the Southern States Athletic Conference — the school's first regular-season league match since 2010.
        Lindsey Dixon clinched at No. 6 singles for XULA (1-1), and Angela Charles-Alfred, Lailaa Bashir, Kyra Akinnibi and Farah Baklouti won in singles and doubles.
        Dixon, a sophomore, clinched for the first time at XULA by defeating Mathilde Camus 6-2, 6-3.
        Charles-Alfred beat eighth-ranked Lucy Carpenter 6-4, 7-5 on the first singles court. Charles-Alfred, No. 10 in the ITA NAIA end-of-season rankings of 2019-20, is unranked because she did not compete in singles during the fall 2020 semester.
        Bashir, ranked second, defeated Fatima Vasquez for the second consecutive year, this time 6-4, 6-1. Fifth-ranked Akinnibi beat Ariana Salqueiro-Estela 6-2, 6-4. Baklouti, a winner in three sets last season against Madelynn Chavez, was the first singles player to finish this time because of her 6-2, 6-2 victory against Chavez. Angelica De Vincenzis beat Manuela Alban 6-4, 6-2.
        Charles-Alfred and Bashir, the No. 1 team among small-college women, clinched the doubles point by defeating Carpenter and Vasquez 6-1. Baklouti and Akinnibi, ranked 16th, beat Alban and Nadja Ochsner 6-2.
        The XULA women have won 46 of their last 55 dual matches dating to Feb. 23, 2018.