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

Women's Tennis to Face UC San Diego at Home on Thursday
**TIME CHANGE: The match time has changed from 1 p.m. to noon**
 
THE TEAMS
UC San Diego (*2-14) at Santa Clara (6-4) 
*Plays at UC Davis on Wednesday before facing Santa Clara.
  
MATCH INFO
When: Thursday, March 24 at noon (time changed from 1 p.m. to noon). 
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, California)
Stats: Live Stats
Video: PlaySight

NOTES
  • 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 GordonGiulia HayerFinley KalinicLindsay LynchLindsey PesqueiraKatherine PettyJamie 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.
LIVE STREAMING:
All home matches at Degheri Tennis Center will be live streamed.  Viewers can go to this link (https://www.santaclarabroncos.com/livetennis) and follow the live action on each of the six courts.  
 
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