Women's Tennis Releases 2013-14 Schedule
7/29/2013 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
July 29, 2013
2013-14 Women's Tennis Schedule | Printable Schedule
By Alex Botoman, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeWTennis)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest head women's tennis coach Jeff Wyshner released his team's 2013-14 schedule, which features 13 matches against teams that went to the NCAA Championship last year and 17 teams that ended last season in the ITA national rankings.
The 2014 dual match season will be the first to feature 14 ACC matches, with the conference retaining its full round-robin format after the additions of Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse.
Bolstered by a Top 10 recruiting class, the Demon Deacons will take the court for the first time this season at the William & Mary Invitational in mid-September before hosting their own Wake Forest Invitational from Sept. 27-29 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex.
Wake Forest will then compete in the ITA Carolina Regional in Chapel Hill before rounding out the fall at the University of Illinois Invite.
"Our fall tournaments will be a great challenge," said Wyshner. "The William & Mary Invitational will be one of the strongest fields in the country at a fall tournament, the Regional is always an important and challenging weekend, and the invite at Illinois will give us a sense of how we match-up in a dual-match format against two of our spring opponents, Missouri and Illinois."
The Deacons will warm up for the dual match season with a trip to Palm Springs for the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in January before opening dual match-play with a home doubleheader against College of Charleston and UNCG on Jan. 20.
Wake Forest will also host Missouri (Feb. 2), Appalachian State (Jan. 25) and Charlotte (Jan. 25) in non-conference play and will travel to VCU (Feb. 8), William & Mary (Feb. 9) and Illinois (Feb. 15).
"Our non-conference schedule will get us a great combination of a lot of matches with our three doubleheaders and critical matches against teams like Missouri, VCU, William & Mary and Illinois that we will be potentially be fighting with for at-large bids to the NCAA Championship," said Wyshner.
The ACC season starts on Feb. 22 when 2013 ACC finalist Florida State comes to Winston-Salem. The Deacons will host Pittsburgh, Duke, Virginia Tech, Miami Maryland and Virginia in ACC play and will face North Carolina, Clemson, Georgia Tech, NC State, Notre Dame, Boston College and Syracuse on the road.
The 2014 ACC Championship will once again be held at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
"We are really excited at the expanded ACC schedule that now includes Notre Dame, Syracuse and Pittsburgh," said Wyshner. "That gives us eight match-ups against teams that finished last year in the Top 25, and with a strong core of returning players and our outstanding group of 4 freshmen, we are really looking forward taking on so many of the best teams in the country."
