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- Bennie Purcell USTA Kentucky Coach of the Year
- TOPSYs Co-Head Coach of the Year
- Career head coaching record of 337-192 (.637)
- 4x National Coach of the Year
- 3 National Titles
The 2024-25 season was the seventh for Greg Davis at the helm of the WKU Women's Tennis program. He was named the eighth head coach of the Lady Topper Tennis program on June 26, 2018. He finished the 2025 spring season with a 337-192 all-time record in his collegiate head coaching career since 1999. The 337 wins are tied for 23rd-most nationally 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 led WKU to its winningest four-year stretch in program history, with 62 wins over that period. That includes a 42-18 record at home over the last four seasons, which is also the best mark in program history. Davis' teams now hold the No. 2, 3, and 4 spots in program history for wins in a season, and he is third in program history in coaching wins with 78 at WKU.
The Lady Toppers that Davis has coached during his seven seasons have their names scattered throughout the program record book. He has coached eight players in the top 10 in program history in combined career singles and doubles wins. That group includes Sofia Blanco, who is first with 108 combined career singles and doubles wins, and became the first player in program history to reach 100 career wins.
Davis has had six players finish in the program's top 10 in career singles wins, with five in the top six, including Rachel Hermanova, who broke the program career singles wins record in a match at Samford on March 22, 2024, and finished with a program-record 62 career singles wins. Davis also has had numerous players in the WKU record books in single-season singles wins, including Hermanova, who won a program-record 19 matches in 2022, and who is also tied for second with Sofia Blanco for their 18 wins in 2023 and 2024, respectively. The top eight spots on WKU's career doubles wins record list belong to Davis' players, with Samantha Martinez leading the pack with 56. Martinez and Blanco hold the record for single-season doubles wins with 17 in 2022.
There have been 10 CUSA weekly awards won by Lady Toppers under Davis, including a program-record five during the 2025 season. WKU went 15-10 overall during the most recent season, tying for third in single-season wins in program history, and the Lady Toppers picked up 12 wins at home, which ties a program record. 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 posted a 14-11 record during the 2024 season. The 14 wins are tied for the fourth-most in a season in program history, while the 11 wins the Lady Toppers claimed at home were the second-most in program history and marked only the second time the program has won double-digit contests at home in a season. WKU recorded a program-long eight-match home winning streak during the campaign. The Lady Toppers were the No. 5 seed in the Conference USA Championship, which was the highest seed ever for the program in the event, and the team played in the quarterfinals for the first time since the 2018 season. Following the season, Blanco was named All-CUSA Singles Second Team, marking the program's first All-CUSA selection since the 2018 season.
Davis' teams had posted two of the program's three winningest seasons the two years prior. In 2022, the Lady Toppers came two wins shy of tying the program's single-season win record with a 18-9 mark – the 1984-85 team posted 20 wins. In 2023, WKU went 15-11, marking the third-most wins in a single season in program history. That year, the team beat No. 69 North Texas 4-1 for the program's first-ever win over a ranked opponent.
WKU started the 2022 campaign 5-0 for its best start ever, then won nine of its last 11 including the final five of the regular season. The Lady Toppers also went 2-1 in Conference USA play, recording their first winning record in league action since 2016-17. WKU went 12-4 in home matches in the 2022 season, increasing their home slate significantly through a partnership with the Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park.
The Lady Toppers have also succeeded in the classroom and have been named a Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team six straight seasons. At least five Lady Toppers have been honored in each of the last four years as Scholar-Athletes with grade-point averages over 3.5, and the program has been represented on the CUSA All-Academic Team each of the last three seasons. WKU Women's Tennis won the 2025 Topsy Awards for the Women's Scholar Team of the Year and the Female Scholar Athlete of the Year (Blanco), and the Lady Toppers earned the Conference USA Team Academic award in 2025. The CUSA Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest GPA for the academic year.
Davis came to WKU from Walden on Lake Houston where he served as Director of Tennis and Assistant Director of Junior Tennis for the past seven years at the Houston City Club.
Prior to his tennis leadership in the Houston area, Davis was the head men’s tennis coach for three years (2007-10) at Lamar University. In his final season, the Cardinals posted the second winningest season in 28 years with 13 wins and featured a nationally ranked top-10 doubles tandem.
From 2002 to 2007, Davis was the head coach of the women’s tennis team at Louisville. Over the course of five seasons, Davis directed the team through its transition from Conference USA to the Big East while compiling a record of 99-48. That still ranks as the most wins in a five-year span for the Louisville program. He coached multiple All-Conference student athletes and led the team to its highest national ranking in program history at the time, No. 50 on the Intercollegiate Coaches Association Poll.
During his time as head coach of men’s and women’s tennis at Auburn University Montgomery, Davis was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men’s Coach of the Year and NAIA Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year in 2002 as well as the NAIA Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2001. He coached the men’s team to an NAIA National Team Title in 2002 and the women’s team to the same championship in 2001 and 2000. His men’s 2002 squad was also named an ITA Academic All-American Team with a GPA of 3.6.
Before becoming a head coach, Davis was an assistant men’s tennis coach for Rice, Wake Forest, and Northwestern between 1994 and 1999. He helped coach the Northwestern and Wake Forest teams to the NCAA Tournament in 1999 and 1998, respectively.
As a collegiate tennis player himself, Davis played at Kankakee Community College in 1989 and 1990 before transferring to IUPUI to finish his career. In his senior year in 1992, he was a team captain and played both singles and doubles for the Jaguars.
