Kentucky ventures away from home this weekend for a pair of matches on the Texas A&M campus after opening the season Tuesday with decisive victories over No. 60 Marshall and Louisville. The 14th-ranked Cats meet the 16th-ranked Aggies of Texas A&M Friday in College Station, Texas before wrapping up their weekend Sunday against No. 5 Northwestern. Live scoring for Friday?s match will be available at ukathletics.com via aggieathletics.com.

The Cats are coming off of a pair of 6-1 wins over Marshall and Louisville, during which Kentucky swept all six doubles matches and took five of six singles matches in each contest. Kentucky will encounter a 16th-ranked Texas A&M team featuring 47th-ranked Helga Vieira, who teams up with Anna Lubinsky to form the nation?s 28th-ranked doubles tandem. UK will combat the Aggies with seventh-ranked senior All-American Aibika Kalsarieva, 30th-ranked sophomore Sarah Foster and 58th-ranked sophomore Kim Coventry. Kentucky enjoys a solid doubles attack, as well, with Foster and Kalsarieva ranked No. 7 nationally and Coventry and sophomore Joelle Schwenk coming in at No. 11.

The Cats and Aggies faced off last season in Lexington when Kentucky dealt Texas A&M a 4-3 defeat at the Boone Indoor Tennis Center. UK owns an 8-1 advantage in the overall series. The two teams could face each other again next week at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Madison, Wis.