BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will face Ball State at 1 p.m. CT on Thursday, March 5, at the Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park in the fifth match of a six-match homestand.
MATCH INFO
- WKU (8-6 overall, 0-0 CUSA) vs. Ball State (6-3 overall, 0-0 MAC)
- Thursday, March 5 | 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 Thursday's match with an 8-6 overall record and a 6-3 record at home. The Lady Toppers have gone 3-1 through the first four matches of their six-match homestand, with wins over Butler, Belmont and Tennessee State.
- WKU has gone 52-31 overall in singles matches this season.
- Virginia Madueño has led the Lady Toppers in singles matches so far this season. The true freshman is 12-1 and has claimed 11 consecutive victories, including two straight from the No. 3 position. She went 6-0 at No. 4 and 4-1 at No. 5.
- Isabelle Einess, Barbara Olvera and Ariadna Fernandez are each 8-5 in singles matches this season. Einess has played all of her matches at the No. 1 position, while Olvera has played primarily at No. 5 – where she has won four straight matches – and Fernandez has gone 7-4 at the No. 6 position.
- Andra Sirbu is 8-6 in singles play this season and has won back-to-back matches at the No. 4 position.
- Emily Schut is 7-7 in singles this spring. She has 22 singles wins during her WKU career.
- The Lady Toppers have won the doubles point in six matches this season and are 6-0 when winning the doubles point.
- Olvera and Madueño have claimed more wins this season for WKU than any other doubles combination. The two freshman are 7-5 together and 5-4 from the No. 2 position.
- Einess and Elizabeth Sobieski have won the last four doubles matches they have completed together. The two are 4-2 overall together, and 3-0 from the No. 3 position.
- Schut has five doubles wins this season and 19 in her WKU career, which 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
- "Ball State's coming off great wins against Cornell as well as Cincinnati, so they're going to be a very good team. They're very deep and they'll put out six high-quality players. We'll have our hands full. We're looking forward to competing against them tomorrow." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on facing Ball State on Thursday.
SERIES INFORMATION
- WKU is 1-9 all-time against Ball State. Thursday will be the first meeting between the two programs since the 2023 season and the first in Bowling Green since 2022.
SCOUTING THE CARDINALS
- Ball State enters Thursday's match with a 6-3 overall record.
- The Cardinals have wins this season over Navy, Butler, Dayton, Cincinnati, Cornell and Cleveland State, and losses to Notre Dame, Michigan State and Purdue.
- Ball State is led by Head Coach Sachin Kirtane, who has held that position since the 2022-23 season.
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