Wake Forest Athletics
Demon Deacons Reveal 2023 Fall Slate
8/11/2023 1:25:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Women’s tennis is set to compete in a few in-state events this upcoming semester.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – With a new semester just around the corner, Wake Forest women's tennis has unveiled its 2023 fall schedule, announced on Friday (Aug. 11).
"We're looking forward to getting started this fall," said head coach Jeff Wyshner. "Add in the $25k UTR PTT event here in Winston during the first week of September, and there is a good collection of opportunities for our players to get the matches they need in September and October around our practices to improve."
In a familiar fashion, the Demon Deacons will kick off action by participating in Furman University's annual Debbie Southern Fall Classic around September's midpoint (Sept. 15-17). A year ago, rising senior Casie Wooten headlined the invitational's opening day by knocking off No. 5 Chloe Beck in a standout, three-set performance for the highest ranked win of her collegiate career.
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American Championships is slated to be Wake Forest's second test of the fall, again held in Cary, North Carolina this year (Sept. 30 - Oct. 8). During 2022, six program players competed in the event's pre-qualifying and qualifying rounds, including returners Mia Ahmad, Nevena Carton, Brooke Killingsworth, Whitley Pate, and Casie Wooten.
Wake Forest will make another in-state trip during the third week of October, pulling up to Chapel Hill for the ITA Carolina Regionals (Oct. 19-23). Having hosted this same outing last fall, the Deacs earned some hardware as Killingsworth and Anna Brylin won the A2 Doubles Championship while Maddie Lynch cruised her way to a title win in the B2 Singles flight, going undefeated through four matches.
For the third year in a row, the team will look to represent in the yearly ITA Fall Nationals, taking place in San Diego through the first five days of November. Brylin and Killingsworth earned berths as a doubles tandem in each of the last two fall campaigns.
Wake Forest brings back seven members within its 10-player roster crew and is led by a senior trio of Ahmad, Killingsworth, and Wooten. The program looks to build off of an exceptional season this past spring:
2023 Wake Forest Women's Tennis Spring Highlights
- Wake Forest tallied an 18-14 overall record in dual matches, including five wins over Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) opponents and seven over nationally-ranked programs.
- The team played some of its best at home, going 12-4 in 16 appearances at its tennis center.
- Anna Brylin/Brooke Killingsworth was named to the All-ACC Second Team in Doubles while Casie Wooten made her way onto the all-conference Third Team in Singles.
- It marked the 21st time in program history that Wake Forest has had multiple selections among the All-ACC teams. The three total nods were the Deacs' most since 2001.
- Additionally, Wake Forest has now represented with two or more All-ACC players in three of the last four seasons.
- In the opening stages of the 2023 postseason, Wake Forest competed as the No. 9-seed in the ACC Tennis Championships, held at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, North Carolina.
- The Deacons ultimately knocked off No. 8-seeded Notre Dame in the second round during a come-from-behind victory before advancing to the quarterfinals for the seventh-straight year, dating back to 2015-16.
- Wake Forest's appearance in this year's NCAA Tournament included its seventh-straight year and 22nd throughout program history.
- The team's win over Arizona State was its biggest comeback of the year, trailing 3-1 at a midpoint within the match.
- The Deacons held a national ranking all spring long, making its way into the top 25 on four separate occasions.
- Wake Forest found notable success during the last week of February, winning the 75th annual Blue Gray Classic in Montgomery, Alabama. Wooten was named Most Valuable Player of the event for her efforts.
- From Feb. 24 to March 5, the Deacs enjoyed a six-match winning streak.
- Brylin made the most of her final year of collegiate action, leading Wake Forest with an 18-6 record in singles.
- Through doubles, Brylin and Killingsworth teamed up for the third season in a row, maintaining a national ranking and going 15-8 overall in dual competition.
- The pair finished fourth all-time in wins (60) as a duo throughout program history, while also being one of four Deacon tandems to have collected 60 or more wins.
- Killingsworth, Wooten, and Nevena Carton all recorded double-figures in solo wins.
- Carton was a standout in her freshman campaign, finishing 16-10 in singles for the second-most wins on the squad.
- Senior Maddie Lynch took on a bigger role this year in mainly operating out of the fifth or sixth singles spot and embracing a few clutch performances. She provided the clinching point in three matches.
- The Deacs captured sweeps in five matches, all but one happening on their home courts.
During fall 2022, Wake Forest saw its players combine for 34 singles wins and 19 doubles victories.
To view the full fall schedule, click here.
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