BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis returns home to face St. Thomas in a 1 p.m. CT match on Thursday at Kereiakes Park.
MATCH INFO
- St. Thomas (6-8 overall, 1-2 Summit League) at WKU (13-6 overall, 2-1 Conference USA)
- Thursday, March 27 | 1 p.m. CT
- Kereiakes Park | Bowling Green, Ky.
- Free Admission
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- The Lady Toppers enter Thursday's contest on a four-match winning streak, which is the longest streak for the team this season. WKU has a 13-6 overall record, a 10-5 record at home and a 2-1 record against CUSA competition.
- WKU's 13 wins are tied for the ninth-most in a single season in program history. The Lady Toppers are one win from tying the 2024 win total of 14, which was tied for the fourth-most wins in a single season in program history.
- WKU's 10 home wins are 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 enters Thursday's match with 102 combined singles and doubles wins in her career, which is a program record.
- Senior Rachel Hermanova enters Thursday's match with 87 combined career singles and doubles wins, which is second-most in program history.
- Senior Mariana Zegada moved into third place on WKU's combined career singles and doubles wins list during the team's match at UTEP last week. She has 72 combined wins.
- WKU has won the doubles point in 14 of its 19 matches. The Lady Toppers are 11-3 when winning the doubles point.
- Mia Miranda and Emily Schut are 12-4 in doubles play together this season, including an 8-3 record at the No. 1 position.
- Blanco and Hermanova are 11-6 together in doubles this season, including a 9-4 record from the No. 2 position.
- Blanco is second on the program's career doubles wins list with 49. She trails only Samantha Martinez, who had 56 career doubles wins from 2020-24.
- Hermanova is tied for eighth on the program's career doubles wins list with 27.
- Mariana Zegada has 39 career doubles wins, which is third-most in program history.
- Hermanova is 11-5 in singles play this season, with all of her matches coming at the No. 1 position. Her 60 career singles wins are a program record.
- Blanco is 13-4 in singles this season, with a 12-4 record at the No. 2 position. Her 53 career singles wins are second-most in program history behind Hermanova's 60.
- Mia Miranda is 10-7 in singles play this season.
- Zegada is 10-5 in singles this season. She has 33 career singles wins, which puts her in sole possession of fifth place on the program's career singles wins list. She is three from being tied for fourth all-time.
- Sunskrithi Damera is 10-6 in singles for WKU this season.
- Schut has won her last four matches and is 13-2 in singles this season, with an 8-1 record at the No. 6 position and a 5-1 record at the No. 5 position.
- Elizabeth Sobieski has a 3-3 record in singles and a 1-1 record in doubles this season for the Lady Toppers.
- The 13 singles wins from Blanco and Schut are tied for 12th-most in a single season in program history.
- Head Coach Greg Davis is 335-188 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 76 wins with the Lady Toppers. Davis is third on the program's 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
- "St. Thomas is a very improved team and deep. We're happy to have them coming in on Thursday. … We're also playing at a different place – Kereiakes Park – so it's going to be a little bit different for us. We're playing well right now. We just want to keep our momentum going until the end of the season." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on facing St. Thomas.
SERIES INFORMATION
- Thursday will be the first meeting between the two programs.
SCOUTING THE TOMMIES
- St. Thomas holds a 6-8 overall record and a 1-2 record against Summit League teams. St. Thomas is scheduled to face Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Wednesday evening before Thursday's match.
- The Tommies have wins over Sioux Falls, Marquette, Bradley, Milwaukee, Northern Iowa and North Dakota entering Wednesday's match at Middle Tennessee.
- St. Thomas is in its second season under Head Coach Colby Carlson.
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