@HurricaneTennis Travels to No. 31 ND, UofL
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The final regular season road trip of the 2015 season has arrived for the University of Miami women’s tennis team.
Both matches will be ACC new experiences for the 17th-ranked Hurricanes, who will play the first ACC road match at Notre Dame in program history and then will meet Louisville in conference play for the first time.
Miami (12-5, 8-2 ACC) and the 31st-ranked Fighting Irish will square off Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Notre Dame, Ind.
The Fighting Irish have won six of their last seven matches, including four in a row, to move to 14-6 (8-3 ACC) on the season. They feature one ranked doubles pair in Quinn Gleason and Monica Robinson and have no nationally ranked singles players.
The Hurricanes have a half-game lead in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings over Notre Dame entering the weekend. Live stats for the match against the Fighting Irish will be available HERE.
After playing Notre Dame, Miami will travel to Louisville, Ky. to take on the Cardinals. Louisville (11-13, 2-9 ACC) does not have any players ranked by the ITA.
This is the first year Louisville is a member of the ACC and live stats for the Miami’s against the Cardinals can be found HERE.
The Hurricanes enter this weekend’s matches with five ranked singles players, including junior Stephanie Wagner at No. 11 and freshman Sinead Lohan at No. 32.
Miami is also one of just three schools in the nation with a quartet of ranked doubles pairs. Wagner and senior Lina Lileikite are ranked eighth to pace the group, followed by senior Monique Albuquerque and junior Clementina Riobueno at No. 36.
To keep up with the Hurricanes’ matches at Notre Dame and Louisville, as well as learn more about University of Miami women’s tennis, follow @HurricaneTennis.
