Women's Tennis Opens Conference Play at Pacific

• Santa Clara opens West Coast Conference play at Pacific on Saturday for the lone match of the week.  
• The Broncos are coming off a weekend sweep, defeating San José State 4-3 on Friday and Sacramento State 7-0 on Saturday. 
• The victory against SJSU came on Velizara Fileva's clincher at 3-all edging out Irena Muradyan in three sets.   
• Giulia Hayer tops the team with four singles wins this spring. 
• Hayer, Katherine Petty and Varya Zlotnik each have a team-high two doubles wins. 
• Santa Clara returns eight players (JennaMarie Gordon, Giulia Hayer, Finley Kalinic, Lindsay Lynch, Lindsey Pesqueira, Katherine Petty, Jamie Schroer and Varya Zlotnik) from last season and add two newcomers (Kacey Feng and Velizara Fileva).
• During the fall season, Feng led the team with five singles wins while Gordon and Hayer topped the squad with eight doubles wins each.

During the 2020-21 season:

• Four freshmen (Gordon, Kalinic, Petty and Zlotnik) were regulars in the starting lineups in both singles and doubles.
• Gordon, a transfer from Gonzaga, was named honorable mention All-West Coast Conference in singles in her first season on the Mission Campus.
• Kalinic posted a team-high seven wins in singles with three of those wins coming on court three. 
• Hayer had a team-high eight doubles wins with seven of them coming on court two, all while paired with Gordon last season.
• Head coach Ben Cabell is in his 16th year as the head coach. He owns a 137-162 career record and has coached 26 all-conference singles, 12 all-conference doubles and 41 conference all-academic honorees.