Virginia Hosts Vanderbilt Saturday in NCAA Round of 16

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –  The Virginia women’s tennis team (24-4) hosts Vanderbilt (14-10) in the Round of 16 of the 2024 NCAA Women’s Tennis Team Championship on Saturday, May 11 at 1 p.m. at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort.

Admission is free.

The match is scheduled to be played outdoors. Please monitor Virginia’s social media accounts for any weather-related changes.

MATCH INFORMATION

• The first 50 fans will receive a free Jersey Mike’s sub
• The matches will be covered in the Cracked Racquets Cross Court Cast on their YouTube Channel
• Individual court streams will also be available on VirginiaSports.com
• Live scoring will be available for all of the matches
• The winner of the Charlottesville Super Regional will advance to the finals site, Oklahoma State’s Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Okla., where they will face the winner of the Chapel Hill Super Regional (North Carolina, Texas A&M) in a quarterfinal match on Friday, May 17

MATCH NOTES

• Virginia is 14-0 this season at home and has won 22 consecutive home matches going back to last season
• Virginia is 27-1 at home over the last two seasons
• Virginia is the No. 5 seed in the tournament, but slipped to No. 6 in the latest ITA team rankings
• The Cavaliers come into the match with 24 wins this season, tied for most in program history (2014 team also posted 24 victories). This is the third straight year the team has won 20 or more matches
• Both senior Sara Ziodato and junior Mélodie Collard collected their 30th singles victories of the season last weekend
• Ziodato is 30-11 overall and 18-7 in dual matches
• Collard is 30-9 and 20-3 in duals
• Grad student Natasha Subhash has won her last five completed singles matches and is 7-1 overall in her last 10 singles matches (with two abandonments)
• Subhash is 24-9 in singles and one win away from reaching the 30-win mark in doubles at 29-7
• Subhash ranks third on Virginia’s career victories list in singles with 116 and is fourth in doubles with 113. She is tied for third in combined wins at 229 (tied with Julia Elbaba)
• Vanderbilt is ranked No. 31 in the latest ITA team rankings
• The Commodores defeated Wake Forest, 4-1, in their opening match and then upset 12-seed Ohio State 4-3 in the regional final in Columbus last Sunday to advance
• This is the 21st Sweet 16 in program history and the 28th consecutive NCAA appearance for Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt has won all five meetings between the two teams
• The two teams last faced one another in the quarterfinals of the 2016 NCAA Tournament with Vanderbilt winning 4-2

VIRGINIA & NCAA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

• Virginia is the No. 5 seed in the championship, their third time being a top-5 seed
• Virginia is making its 23rd appearance in the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships and sixth-consecutive under head coach Sara O’Leary
• Virginia has advanced to the Round of 16 nine times, including each of the last four years
• The Cavaliers have reached the quarterfinals three times (2014, 2016 and 2022)