BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will begin a stretch of five straight road matches with a trip to North Alabama on Sunday, March 15. The match is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. CT at the UNA Tennis Courts in Florence, Alabama.
MATCH INFO
- WKU (8-8 overall, 0-1 CUSA) at UNA (10-2, 1-0 ASUN)
- Sunday, March 15 | 2 p.m. CT
- UNA Tennis Courts | Florence, Ala.
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU enters Sunday's match with an 8-8 overall record. The Lady Toppers have a road win at Southern Indiana earlier this season, as well as a neutral court win against UNC Asheville in Richmond, Kentucky.
- The Lady Toppers are coming off a six-match homestand in which they went 3-3, with victories over Butler, Belmont and Tennessee State.
- WKU has gone 55-40 in singles matches this season.
- The Lady Toppers have been led in singles play by true freshman Virginia Madueño, who has a 13-2 record. She is 3-0 at the No. 3 position, 6-0 at No. 4 and 4-1 at No. 5, and also played one match at the No. 2 position.
- Ariadna Fernandez is 8-6 in singles matches, primarily playing at the No. 6 position, where she is 7-4, and Isabelle Einess and Barbara Olvera are each 8-7. Einess has played all of her singles matches from the No. 1 position, while Olvera has played primarily at No. 5, where she is 5-2.
- Andra Sirbu is 8-8 overall in singles play and Emily Schut has gone 7-8. Schut has 22 wins during her WKU career.
- Elizabeth Sobieski has won back-to-back singles matches and is 3-2 this season, with all matches played at the No. 6 position.
- The Lady Toppers have won the doubles point in six matches this season. WKU is 6-0 when winning the doubles point.
- Olvera/Madueño and Sobieski/Einess have produced the best records in doubles for WKU this season. Olvera/Madueño are 7-7 overall, while Sobieski/Einess are 4-3 in together in doubles this spring.
- Schut has six doubles wins this season and 20 in her WKU career. The 20 career doubles wins ranks 13th in program history.
- WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis has 345 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 entered the season with a career winning percentage of .637, which ranked 36th among that group of coaches.
- Davis has collected 86 wins at WKU, which ranks third in program history. He is one win from being tied with Betty Langley for second in coaching wins in program history.
- The full 2026 WKU Women's Tennis schedule can be found HERE.
QUOTABLE
- "North Alabama has a very strong team this season. They are coming off a season where they made the NIT Tournament, so Sunday will be very challenging." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis.
SERIES INFORMATION
- The series between WKU and UNA is tied 9-9. The Lions won the last meeting between the two programs, 4-1, in Bowling Green during the 2024 season, but the Lady Toppers won the three meetings prior to that, including a 4-0 decision in 2023 the last time the two played at UNA.
SCOUTING THE LIONS
- UNA has a 10-2 record this season and has won nine consecutive matches.
- The Lions have claimed wins over Arkansas State, Louisiana, Jackson State, Jax State, Belmont, Alabama A&M, Eastern Kentucky, Mississippi Valley State, Troy and Murray State.
- UNA is led by Olaya Garrido Rivas. She is in her fourth season as UNA's Director of Tennis.
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