BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will wrap up a 10-match homestand on Monday with a 1 p.m. CT match against UT Southern at the Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park.
MATCH INFO
- UT Southern (2-6 overall, 1-1 SSAC) at WKU (11-6 overall, 1-1 CUSA)
- Monday, March 17 | 1 p.m. CT
- Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park | Bowling Green, Ky.
- Free Admission
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU enters Monday's match with an 11-6 overall record and a 9-5 record at home this season.
- Monday's match is the final in a 10-match homestand.
- WKU has gone 6-3 during the homestand, with wins over Missouri State, Eastern Illinois, Jax State, Southern Indiana, Tennessee State and Dayton.
- WKU's nine home wins are the third-most in a single season in program history. The Lady Toppers won 12 home matches in 2022 and 11 in 2024.
- Senior Sofia Blanco has 99 combined singles and doubles wins. She has more combined singles and doubles wins than anyone in program history.
- Senior Rachel Hermanova has 85 combined singles and doubles wins, which is second-most in program history.
- Senior Mariana Zegada has 68 combined singles and doubles wins. The 68 combined wins in singles in doubles are fifth-most in program history.
- Hermanova is 10-5 in singles this season, all from the No. 1 position. Her 59 career singles wins are a program record.
- Blanco is 11-4 in singles this season and 10-4 from the No. 2 position. She has 51 career singles wins, which is second-most in program history.
- Mariana Zegada is 8-5 in singles this season. She has 31 career singles wins, which is tied for seventh-most in program history.
- Sunskrithi Damera is 9-5 in singles this season. She is 10th on the program's career singles wins list with 29.
- Emily Schut is 11-2 in singles this season, with a 6-1 record at the No. 6 position and a 5-1 record at the No. 5 position.
- Elizabeth Sobieski holds a 3-3 record in singles and a 1-1 record in doubles this season.
- WKU has won the doubles point in 12 of its 17 matches. WKU is 9-3 this season when winning the doubles point.
- Emily Schut and Mia Miranda are 11-3 together in doubles this season, including a 7-2 record at No. 1 doubles. They have won their last three matches together.
- Blanco and Hermanova are 10-6 together in doubles this season and have won their last three matches together.
- Blanco has 48 career doubles wins, which ranks second in program history behind the 56 doubles wins by Samantha Martinez from 2020-24.
- Hermanova has 26 career doubles wins, which is tied for ninth-most in program history.
- Zegada has 37 career doubles wins, which is tied for third-most in program history.
- Head Coach Greg Davis is 333-188 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 74 wins with the Lady Toppers. Davis ranks fourth in wins by a WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach. He is now one win away from being tied for third on WKU's career coaching wins list. Davis 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 have an opportunity ahead next week. We've got UT Southern coming in here on Monday and then we're playing UTEP on the road. It'll be a very challenging conference match with a program that we have great respect for. We'll be flying down there on Tuesday and playing them on Wednesday. Two big opportunities in the week ahead of us and we're looking forward to both challenges." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on the matches against UT Southern and at UTEP this week.
SERIES INFORMATION
- Monday will be the first meeting between WKU and UT Southern.
SCOUTING THE FIREHAWKS
- UT Southern holds a 2-6 record entering Monday's match.
- The Firehawks have wins over Blue Mountain Christian and Freed-Hardeman this season.
- UT Southern is coached by Bill Riddle.
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