BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will face No. 18 Vanderbilt on Saturday at the Lummis Family Tennis Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The match is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. CT.
MATCH INFO
- WKU (0-1 overall, 0-0 CUSA) at No. 18 Vanderbilt (0-0 overall, 0-0 SEC)
- Saturday, Jan. 17 | 11 a.m. CT
- Lummis Family Tennis Center | Nashville, Tenn.
- Watch: vucommodores.com/watch-vanderbilt-tennis/
- Live Stats: IonCourt
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU Women's Tennis enters Saturday's match at Vanderbilt with an 0-1 overall record, after falling 4-3 to Bellarmine on Thursday in the season opener.
- Andra Sirbu, Emily Schut and Virginia Madueño are all 1-0 in singles play this season.
- The doubles team of Barbara Olvera and Madueño enters Saturday's match with a 1-0 record.
- Saturday's match will be the first road match of the season for the Lady Toppers. WKU went 3-3 in road matches during the 2025 season.
- WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis has 337 career wins as a head coach. He entered the season tied for 23rd nationally in wins among active NCAA Division I Women's Tennis head coaches with at least five years as a Division I head coach, counting all victories as a coach at a four-year institution. Davis has a career winning percentage of .637, which ranks 36th among that group of coaches. Davis has collected 78 wins at WKU, which ranks third in program history.
- WKU's full 2026 schedule can be found HERE.
QUOTABLE
- "Just improvement. We're all about improving each week and trying to get better each match. That's what we're looking for. We're kind of looking to settle our lineup at some point by the end of January. These first three matches, I look at them as kind of a segment that gives us an idea of who's going to be able to play where and go forward with that throughout the season." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on the focus during upcoming matches at Vanderbilt and Louisville.
SERIES INFORMATION
- Saturday's match will mark the fourth meeting all-time between WKU and Vanderbilt. The Commodores lead the series 2-1, with the last meeting coming during the 2021 season.
SCOUTING THE COMMODORES
- Saturday's match is the first dual match for Vanderbilt during the 2026 season. The Commodores competed in the UT Invite in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Jan. 9-11.
- Vanderbilt enters the season ranked 18th in the ITA Division I Women's Tennis Rankings. It is the fourth consecutive season the program has been ranked in the preseason top-25 under Head Coach Aleke Tsoubanos.
- Multiple players currently represent Vanderbilt in the ITA individual rankings. Graduate Célia-Belle Mohr and sophomore Sophia Webster lead the way for the Commodores at No. 2 in the doubles rankings. Senior Bridget Stammel and junior Valeria Ray are just behind at No. 13, and the freshmen duo of Erin Pearce and Mia Yamakita round out the Commodores in doubles at No. 46. In singles, Ray is at a No. 17 ranking, with Stammel following at No. 33 and Yamakita at No. 36.
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