Coach Wyshner, Women’s Tennis Release 2025 Spring Schedule

Coach Wyshner, Women’s Tennis Release 2025 Spring Schedule

11/1/2024 1:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Dual competition is scheduled for the Demon Deacons.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – With their fall schedule coming to an end, the Wake Forest women's tennis team has released dates for their 2025 spring schedule, as announced by head coach Jeff Wyshner on Friday (Nov. 1).

"I'm really excited at what a new look ACC and non-conference schedule will be for us. We'll get our first look at Cal and Stanford when they visit us in April and adding two probably top 10 teams to what is always a very challenging ACC schedule will only challenge our team to be at our very best. Unfortunately, the Blue Gray Classic event that has been a critical piece of our schedule the last several years isn't happening this year so we had to add, and I'm excited that we were able to add or continue to play several teams that often either win or lose in their conference championship matches like ETSU, ODU, Charlotte, Furman, Liberty, Marshall, JMU and William & Mary. We are also very much looking forward to our first trip ever to the Naval Academy where Kady Tannenbaum's older sister is a senior on their team. Overall, it is going to be a challenging year. So many teams, including ours, graduated two or three of their top four players and will be relying on what is a much younger, less experienced group this year. We've done some really great work so far this fall to help us get ready, and we'll have to keep pushing from now until the end of the year if we are going to be successful."

Wake Forest will open their spring schedule on Saturday, Jan. 18 in a double header against Tennessee and East Carolina at the Wake Forest Tennis Center, before hosting East Tennessee State two days later.

The Deacs will have their first road contest of the season when they travel to Virginia to take on Liberty (Jan. 24). January competition then concludes two days later, as the team will host its second double-header of the month against Old Dominion and Elon.

February opens with a trip up north to West Virginia, as the Demon Deacons will face Marshall (Feb. 2). A week later, Wake Forest will return home for a three-day mini tournament against Furman and James Madison, facing the Paladins on Friday (Feb. 7) and then taking on the Dukes on Sunday (Feb. 9).

Following their matches against Furman and James Madison, the Deacs will spend the next two weeks on the road, first going to Columbia to take on both South Carolina and Western Carolina in the final doubleheader of the season. Wake Forest will then travel towards the nation's capital to face the Naval Academy (Feb. 21) and William & Mary (Feb. 23).

February 28 marks the start of Atlantic Coast Conference competition, with road contests against Notre Dame and Louisville lined up for the first weekend. The Demon Deacons will have their ACC home opener against Virginia on March 7, as well as a home contest against Virginia Tech on March 9 before traveling to play Charlotte the following day.

The Deacs will then make the in-state trip to face off against two Big Four foes, facing North Carolina on March 21 and Duke on March 23. Wake Forest will return home for the following weekend, hosting both Georgia Tech and Clemson on March 28 and 30, respectively.

The first two weeks of April will see the Deacs split time between home and on the road, as they suit up against Miami, Florida State, Stanford, and California to finish conference play.

The ACC Championships will once again be held at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, North Carolina, this year, with the tournament scheduled for April 15-20.

Wake Forest returns six members of their 10-player roster from the 2024 season and is led by juniors Nevena Carton, Jingyi Li, and Whitley Pate. Redshirt sophomore Krystal Blanch and sophomores Sankavi Gownder and Aubrey Nisbet also return for the Demon Deacons. Newcomers include Kentucky transfer Makayla Mills and Columbia transfer Anna Zhang, along with freshman Brianna Baldi and Kady Tannenbaum.

Fans can find the online schedule here.

Date	Opponent/Event	Designation	Location
Jan. 18	Tennessee	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Jan. 18	East Carolina	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Jan. 20	East Tennessee State	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Jan. 24	Liberty	Away	Lynchburg, Va.
Jan. 26	Old Dominion	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Jan. 26	Elon	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Feb. 2	Marshall	Away	Huntington, W.V.
Feb. 7	Furman	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Feb. 9	James Madison	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Feb. 15	South Carolina	Away	Columbia, S.C.
Feb. 15	Western Carolina	Neutral	Columbia, S.C.
Feb. 21	Navy	Away	Annapolis, Md.
Feb. 23	William & Mary	Away	Williamsburg, Va.
Feb. 28	Notre Dame	Away	South Bend, Ind.
March 2	Louisville	Away	Louisville, Ky.
March 7	Virginia	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
March 9	Virginia Tech	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
March 10	Charlotte	Away	Charlotte, N.C.
March 21	North Carolina	Away	Chapel Hill, N.C.
March 23	Duke	Away	Durham, N.C.
March 28	Georgia Tech	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
March 30	Clemson	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
April 4	Miami	Away	Coral Gables, Fla.
April 6	Florida State	Away	Tallahassee, Fla.
April 11	Stanford	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
April 13	California	Home	Winston-Salem, N.C.
April 15-20	ACC Championships	Neutral	Cary, N.C.

2024 Wake Forest Women's Tennis Highlights

The Demon Deacons compiled 15 wins throughout the spring and have now earned double-digit victories in 10-consecutive seasons (excluding the COVID-shortened 2020 season).
- Seven of the 15 victories came against ranked teams, with three coming against teams inside the top 30.
- Six of the 15 victories came against conference opponents, which earned the Deacs the No. 9 seed in the ACC Championships.
The Deacs have now made eight-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances under head coach Jeff Wyshner. Wake Forest is one of just 21 schools to accomplish this feat as well as one of six ACC institutions to do so.
- The appearance also marked the 23rd time that Wake Forest has qualified for the NCAA Tournament in program history.
Individually, the Deacs were led by senior captain Casie Wooten, who finished with a team-best 15-wins in dual play (22 overall).
- The Torrance, Calif.-native racked up seven wins over ranked opponents, including the highest ranked win over her career with a three-set victory over South Carolina's Ayana Akli (No. 3) on Feb. 17.
- The senior also made her second-consecutive appearance at the NCAA Singles Championships in Stillwater, Okla, finishing in the Round of 64.
- Wooten was also named to the All-ACC Third Team for Singles for the second consecutive season, becoming the 20th Demon Deacon to be named an All-ACC selection multiple times in their career.
In doubles, Wake Forest once again held one of the top pairings in the country with senior Brooke Killingsworth and graduate student Marcella Cruz.
- The duo earned 12 wins in first doubles during the spring, which also helped the Demon Deacons secure 12 doubles points.
Killingsworth not only got it done in doubles, but she also had the most successful singles campaign of her career, racking up 12 wins while competing in second singles.
- She picked up four ranked wins this season, including the highest ranked win over her career over No. 37 Abigail Rencheli of NC State.
Freshman Sankavi Gownder wrapped up a stellar first year in the Old Gold & Black, as she finished second on the team in dual play with 14 wins, including her first-career ranked victory against Tennessee's Eleonora Molinaro (No. 100).
In total, the Demon Deacons had six players record double-digit singles victories in dual play this campaign.
- Casie Wooten - 15 wins
- Sankavi Gownder - 14 wins
- Brooke Killingsworth - 12 wins
- Whitley Pate - 10 wins
- Marcella Cruz - 10 wins
- Nevena Carton - 10 wins