BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will travel to No. 21 Vanderbilt on Sunday for a 3:30 p.m. CT match at the Lummis Family Tennis Center in Nashville, Tennessee, as Head Coach Greg Davis continues to climb the list of active career wins leaders in the sport.
Davis is 323-182 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 64 wins at WKU after a 6-1 victory over Eastern Kentucky in the season opener at home on Thursday. He entered the season ranked 29th in total wins and 36th in winning percentage among active Division I women's tennis head coaches with at least five years as a Division I head coach.
MATCH INFO
- WKU (1-0 overall, 0-0 CUSA) at Vanderbilt (0-0 overall, 0-0 SEC)
- Sunday, Jan. 19 | 3:30 p.m. CT
- Lummis Family Tennis Center | Nashville, Tenn.
- Stream: vucommodores.com/watch-vanderbilt-womens-tennis/
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU is 1-0 after a 6-1 victory over EKU in the season opener on Thursday at the Warren County Tennis Facility.
- The duos of Sofia Blanco/Rachel Hermanova and Mia Miranda/Emily Schut are 1-0 in doubles play this season.
- Hermanova, Blanco, Sunskrithi Damera, Mariana Zegada and Emily Schut all enter with 1-0 records in singles play this season.
- Hermanova enters Sunday's match with a program-record 50 singles wins in her WKU career, while Blanco sits in third – three wins shy from being tied for second – in the category with 41 singles wins.
- Blanco is second in program history in career doubles wins with 39 entering Sunday's match, while Mariana Zegada enters in fifth place in program history in the category with 32 career doubles wins and is one away from being tied for fourth all-time in program history.
- Head Coach Greg Davis is now 323-182 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 64 wins with the Lady Toppers. He entered the season ranked 29th in total wins and 36th in winning percentage among active Division I women's tennis head coaches with at least five years as a Division I head coach.
QUOTABLE
- "We are playing a team in Vanderbilt that could be a final four type of team. They have won National Championships in the past so it will be a challenge." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on Sunday's match against Vanderbilt.
- "I've been really lucky to have coached some great student-athletes in my career. The players are the reason for the three national titles and four National Coach of the Year awards. I'm very proud of the success in the classroom and on the courts." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on entering the season among the NCAA Division I leaders in career wins.
SERIES INFORMATION
- WKU is 1-2 all-time against Vanderbilt. The Lady Toppers claimed the first meeting in 1978, but have lost the following two in 1984 and 2021.
SCOUTING THE COMMODORES
- Vanderbilt competed at the Miami Spring Invite earlier this month, but Sunday will mark the team's first dual matches of the season. The Commodores are scheduled to face SMU at 11 a.m. CT prior to the match against WKU.
- Vanderbilt is ranked No. 21 in the ITA rankings.
- The Commodores have a pair of players ranked in singles play, according to ITA rankings – Bridget Stammel at No. 26 and Valeria Ray at No. 78. Vanderbilt's doubles team of Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster are the No. 11 team in the ITA doubles rankings.
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