No 5 Fresno State opens Mountain West Championships against No. 4 Boise State

Mountain West Championship, Quarterfinals: No. 5 Fresno State (14-8, 6-4 MW) vs No. 4 Boise State (16-5, 7-3 MW)

Wednesday, Apr. 23 - Sunday Apr. 26, 2025 | 2 p.m. PT | Darling Tennis Center | Las Vegas, Nevada

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FRESNO, Calif. - The fifth seeded Fresno State women's tennis team begins their run for the conference title against fourth seeded Boise State at the 2025 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championships in Las Vegas.

Bulldogs received a first-round bye and will compete in the quarterfinal match on Thursday afternoon at Darling Tennis Center.

BULLDOG BONES

Fresno State will compete in the quarterfinal match on Thursday against No. 4 Boise State
Bulldogs were seeded fifth for the first time in program history
Fresno State has won three MW Conference titles (2014 & 2018)
Fresno State defeated San Jose State to clinch the fifth seed and earn a first-round bye
A win against the Broncos puts the 'Dogs in the semifinals match to face the winner of No. 8 Wyoming vs No. 1 San Diego State
Sofia Pizzoni and Matilde Magrini were named All-MW singles, Pizzoni grabbed her first while Magrini claimed the second of her career
Matilde Magrini and Yinglak Jittakoat were named All-MW doubles, the pair earned their third doubles honor together
For the first time in her career, Matilde Magrini earned All-MW honors for both singles and doubles in the same season
Sofia Pizzoni leads the Bulldogs with the most singles wins (13-5) with ten of those wins coming at the No. 2 flight
Paulina Montiel joins Pizzoni with double-figure singles wins, holding a 12-8 record and a 6-1 record at No. 6
Paulina Montiel was tabbed as the conference's final Freshman of the Week (Apr. 21)
Andjela Lopicic and Matilde Magrini are one win shy of double-figure singles wins
Andjela Lopicic and Paulina Montiel each hold over five conference wins

FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
Paulina Montiel was tabbed as the conference's final Freshman of the Week (Apr. 21), she is the only Bulldog this season to earn a weekly honor.

Montiel dominated play without dropping a single set against San José State (6-4, 6-4). The freshman also went undefeated (1-0) in singles at No. 6 with a commanding straight set victory. Montiel contributed a crucial singles point in a team win over a higher-ranked conference opponent. The freshman is the first since Eliza Dunbar (Mar. 27, 2024)

CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Fresno State prepares for their 10th Mountain West Conference Championships since joining in 2014.

In the Bulldogs inaugural year they took the conference crown after defeating second seed New Mexico, 4-2. Since then the Bulldogs have seen three championship matches. Fresno State held the conference title once more in 2018 after taking down top-seed UNLV, 4-1. Since 2018, the Bulldogs have struggled to qualify into the semi finals match.

A LOOK AT THE BRONCOS

Broncos earned the No. 4 seed after defeating Utah State in the final conference match of the season, 4-1
Boise State defeated Fresno State in their first meeting this season in Fresno, 5-2
Broncos trail the all-time meetings 5-18 and have won two of the last five matches
Maya Dutta was named MW Freshman of the Year, Dutta also earned an All-MW Singles & Doubles nod
Zdena Safarova was named All-MW in singles and doubles as well
The Broncos ended the regular season with six straight conference dual wins, their most entering a conference tournament since the 2009-10 season
This streak is also Boise's longest since winning eight consecutive duals as members of the Western Athletic Conference in 2010

BULLDOG STATS

SINGLES	OVERALL	CONF.	1	2	3	4	5	6
ELIZA	6-9	2-2	-	-	-	1-0	2-5	3-4
CHARLOTTE	3-11	3-4	-	-	3-8	0-3	-	-
YINGLAK	7-2	3-1	1-0	3-2	3-0	-	-	-
ANDJELA	9-11	5-4	-	1-0	0-2	7-9	1-0	-
MATILDE	9-10	4-5	9-10	-	-	-	-	-
GIANNA	1-2	0-1	-	-	-	-	1-0	0-1
PAULINA	12-8	6-3	-	-	1-0	0-2	5-5	6-1
SOFIA	13-5	4-2	1-0	10-4	2-1	-	-	-
KLARA	2-2	0-0					2-2

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Players Mentioned

Eliza Dunbar

Yinglak Jittakoat

Andjela Lopicic

Matilde Magrini

Paulina Montiel

Sofia Pizzoni