Women's Tennis to Face UC San Diego at Home on Thursday

• Santa Clara plays the third of four matches this week, hosting UC San Diego on Thursday. 
• The Broncos beat Seattle U, 4-0, on Monday in a neutral site match at San Luis Obispo, California and fell to Cal Poly, 4-0, on Tuesday.  
• The loss against Cal Poly snapped a five-match win streak.  
• SCU will enter the heart of the West Coast Conference slate on Sunday when they play at Saint Mary's.  
• The Broncos already have a WCC win under its belt, having beaten Pacific 4-3 back on March 5 when JennaMarie Gordon clinched it at 3-all.  
• Gordon has won three-straight singles matches.  
• Giulia Hayer leads the team with six singles victories this spring. 
• Katherine Petty leads the Broncos with five doubles wins in the spring.  
• 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.