BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will close a four-match homestand to open the season with a 1 p.m. CT match against SIUE on Friday at the Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park.
MATCH INFO
- SIUE (2-0 overall, 0-0 OVC) at WKU (2-1 overall, 0-0 CUSA)
- Friday, Jan. 31 | 1 p.m. CT
- Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanan Park | Bowling Green, Ky.
- Free Admission
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU enters Friday's match with a 2-1 record. The Lady Toppers started the season with back-to-back wins over EKU and SEMO and a loss to Lipscomb.
- The Lady Toppers have claimed the doubles point in all three matches this season.
- The duo of Emily Schut/Mia Miranda are 3-0 in doubles play this season and were named the Conference USA Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Wednesday.
- Sofia Blanco enters Friday's match with 40 career doubles wins, which is second all-time in program history, and Mariana Zegada is tied for fourth with 33 career doubles wins.
- Hermanova enters Friday's match with a program-record 51 career singles wins, while Blanco has 42 and is two away from being tied for second on WKU's career singles wins list. Zegada moved into the top 10 in program history with her 25th career singles win earlier this season and she is now tied for ninth.
- Head Coach Greg Davis is 324-183 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 65 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. Davis is one win away from being tied with Ray Rose for fourth all-time in wins by a WKU Women's Tennis coach.
QUOTABLE
- "They're improved and when I say that, they made the NCAA Tournament last year, so we're talking about an NCAA Tournament team that's improved, so they are definitely not a team that we're going to take for granted this Friday." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on SIUE.
SERIES INFORMATION
- WKU holds a 2-1 lead in the series over SIUE, including wins in each of the last two matches. The Lady Toppers claimed a 4-2 victory during the 2023 season in Edwardsville, Illinois, and a 4-1 win in 2022 in Bowling Green.
SCOUTING THE COUGARS
- SIUE enters with a 2-0 record after claiming victories over Illinois Springfield and at Valparaiso earlier this month.
- The Cougars were picked first in the OVC preseason poll and earned six of the seven possible first-place votes.
- SIUE is the defending OVC Tournament champion.
- The Cougars had one singles player and one doubles team in the latest ITA rankings – Amelia Gorman at No. 119 in singles, and Payton Tomichek/Chloe Koons at No. 75 in doubles.
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