LYNCHBURG, Va. – WKU Women's Tennis lost to Louisiana Tech 4-0 on Thursday in the Conference USA Women's Tennis Championship quarterfinals at the Liberty Tennis Complex.
The Lady Toppers finish the season with a 15-10 overall record. The 15 wins are tied for the third-most in a single season in program history.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Singles (Order of finish: 4,2,6)
- 1. Ana Rodrigues (TECH) vs. Rachel Hermanova (WKU) 6-1, 6-6 (6-6), unfinished
- 2. Zoie Epps (TECH) def. Sofia Blanco (WKU) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1
- 3. Mari Tsironi (TECH) vs. Mariana Zegada (WKU) 2-6, 6-4, 1-1, unfinished
- 4. Mio Kozaki (TECH) def. Sunskrithi Damera (WKU) 6-1, 6-2
- 5. Nina Skoric (TECH) vs. Emily Schut (WKU) 0-6, 6-2, 3-4, unfinished
- 6. June Vigneron (TECH) def. Elizabeth Sobieski (WKU) 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
Doubles (Order of finish: 3,1)
- 1. Ana Rodrigues/Zoie Epps (TECH) def. Sofia Blanco/Rachel Hermanova (WKU) 6-2
- 2. Alice Brook/Mari Tsironi (TECH) vs. Emily Schut/Mariana Zegada (WKU) 4-4, unfinished
- 3. Mio Kozaki/Nina Skoric (TECH) def. Sunskrithi Damera/Elizabeth Sobieski (WKU) 6-2
NOTABLES
- WKU closes the 2025 season with a 15-10 overall record. The 15 wins are tied for third-most in a single season in program history. The Lady Toppers also won 15 matches during the 2023 season.
- The Lady Toppers went 12-6 at home during the 2025 season. The 12 home wins are tied for most in program history. The program also won 12 matches during the 2022 season.
- WKU has won 62 matches over the past four seasons, which marks the most wins over a four-year stretch in program history.
- Thursday's match marked the second consecutive year the Lady Toppers have played in the CUSA Women's Tennis Championship quarterfinals. Prior to the 2024 season, the program hadn't played in the quarterfinal round since 2018.
- In addition to the four-year team win total, WKU's senior class is the winningest the program has had. Sofia Blanco, Rachel Hermanova and Mariana Zegada – the three four-year seniors on the 2025 roster – rank first, second and third in combined career singles and doubles wins, respectively. Blanco finishes her WKU career with 108 combined career singles and doubles wins, which is a program record. Hermanova finishes her WKU career with 92 combined career singles and doubles wins, which is second-most in program history. Zegada finishes her WKU career with 75 combined career singles and doubles wins, which is third-most in program history.
- The three four-year WKU players also all finished in the top 10 in program history in career doubles wins. Blanco finishes her career with 52 career doubles wins, which ranks second in program history behind only Samantha Martinez, who had 56 career doubles wins from 2020-24. Zegada finishes third in program history with 41 career doubles wins, while Hermanova finishes eighth in program history with 30 career doubles wins.
- Graduate student Sunskrithi Damera, who transferred to WKU for her final three seasons, finishes her WKU career with 41 combined career singles and doubles wins.
- Blanco, Damera, Hermanova and Zegada all finish their WKU careers in the program's top 10 in career singles wins. Hermanova holds the record with 62 career singles wins, while Blanco finishes second with 56, Zegada finishes fifth with 34 and Damera finishes tied for eighth with 31.
- The Lady Toppers close the 2025 season with a program record five CUSA weekly awards this season, including a record three CUSA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week awards. Emily Schut and Mia Miranda were named the CUSA Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Jan. 29, Blanco and Hermanova were named the CUSA Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on March 5, Blanco was named the CUSA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week on March 5 and April 9 and Hermanova was named the CUSA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week on April 15. WKU had claimed five CUSA awards total under Davis prior to the 2025 season, and never received more than two in a single season before this spring.
- The doubles team of Blanco and Hermanova became the first doubles team in program history to be ranked in a spring ITA Division I Women's Tennis Doubles ranking. The two were ranked No. 85 nationally in the Feb. 20 rankings.
- WKU won the doubles point in 16 of its 25 matches this season. The Lady Toppers were 13-3 when winning the doubles point.
- Blanco, Hermanova and Schut all finished the season with 14 doubles wins, which is tied for eighth-most in a single season in program history.
- Hermanova finishes the season with a 13-7 record in singles, all from the No. 1 position.
- Blanco finishes the season with a 16-7 record in singles play, including a 15-7 record from the No. 2 position. The 16 singles wins are fifth-most in a single season in program history.
- Zegada finishes the season with an 11-5 record in singles play, with matches at the No. 3, 4 and 5 positions. She posted a 7-0 record from the No. 5 singles position.
- Mia Miranda went 10-7 in singles play during her first season with the program. She also claimed 12 doubles wins.
- Damera posted an 11-8 record in singles during the season.
- Emily Schut went 15-4 during her first season as a Lady Topper. The 15 wins are tied for sixth-most in a single season in program history.
- Elizabeth Sobieski recorded a 4-6 record in singles play during her first season with the program.
- Head Coach Greg Davis finishes the season with a 337-192 all-time as a college head coach, which includes 78 wins with the Lady Toppers. Davis moved into third place on the program's coaching wins list this season. 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
- "Really proud of the team. We fought until the end. Louisiana Tech was 5-0 (against CUSA teams) in the regular season and today we found out why. I'm very appreciative of all that Sunny, Mariana, Rachel and Sofia did for the program. A new school record for wins with 62 in four years. They accomplished a tremendous amount at WKU during their careers." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on the loss to Louisiana Tech and the success of the team's four seniors during their careers.
NEXT UP
- WKU will head into the offseason after finishing the 2025 season with a 15-10 overall record. The Lady Toppers have already signed two players for the 2025-26 roster – Virginia Madueño Pita and Barbara Olvera.
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