BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will be the No. 5 seed for the upcoming 2024 Conference USA Women's Tennis Championship. The Lady Toppers will face 4-seed Louisiana Tech on Friday, April 19, at 12 p.m. CT in their first match of the single-elimination tournament at the Pay Cargo Tennis Facility in Miami.
WKU went 14-10 in the regular season, including 1-1 against CUSA programs. The 14 wins are tied for fourth-most in a single season in program history. The Lady Toppers are coming off a 6-1 loss at No. 63 Florida Atlantic on Monday in the regular-season finale.
"We're looking forward to the tournament," WKU Head Coach Greg Davis said. "Today was a very difficult and challenging match against a great Florida Atlantic team. Man, they're deep and they're quality at every position. They've been as high as the top 50 this season so we could tell why after playing today. It's good for us to get down here, get acclimated to the heat, get down here early and train to get ready for Friday's match against a very good Louisiana Tech team. We feel our best tennis is ahead of us and really had a great performance out of Sofia (Blanco) today. Our doubles are starting to play better, too. What I mean by that is we're playing better competition, but we're playing well against better competition. One of our goals at the beginning of the year is to play our best tennis at the end of the year, so we're looking forward to doing that on Friday."
Friday's match will mark the first time WKU will play in the CUSA quarterfinals since the 2018 season, when the Lady Toppers advanced past the first round with a 4-0 win over Louisiana Tech. The No. 5 seed is the highest WKU has been seeded in a CUSA Championship.
The Lady Toppers are 6-4 all-time against Louisiana Tech. WKU dropped a 4-3 decision in the last meeting between the programs during the 2021 CUSA Tournament in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Louisiana Tech is 14-8 overall this season and 3-1 in CUSA play, with wins at New Mexico State, at UTEP, and at Sam Houston, and with a loss against Jax State.
No. 8 Sam Houston and No. 9 UTEP will open the CUSA Championship with a 10 a.m. CT match on Thursday, April 18. FIU is the No. 1 seed and will face the winner of the tournament's opening match at 9 a.m. CT on Friday, April 19. In addition to that match and WKU's match with Louisiana Tech, No. 2 Liberty and No. 7 New Mexico State will play at 9 a.m. CT on Friday, and No. 3 Jax State will face No. 6 Middle Tennessee at 12 p.m. CT on Friday. The semifinals are scheduled for 10 a.m. CT on Saturday, April 20, and the championship match is set for 9 a.m. CT on Sunday, April 21.
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