- Stanford is sending three to the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships in Waco, Texas from Nov. 19-24. The singles draw begins on Tuesday and doubles on Wednesday.
- Valerie Glozman is the No. 5 seed in singles and opens with Boise State's Zdena Safarova.
- Connie Ma is the No. 6 seed and has her first match against FIU's Ekaterina Khayrutdinova.
- Alexis Blokhina is unseeded and will face Vanderbilt's Valeria Ray in her first match.
- Glozman and Ma are also in the doubles draw and will face Wisconsin's Alina Mukhortova and Maria Sholokhova in their Round of 32 opener.
- Glozman qualified with a run to the quarterfinals at the ITA All-American Championships in Cary, N.C. in late September.
- Stanford picked up its two other singles berths and its doubles qualifier at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Berkeley in October, where the Cardinal swept both singles and doubles titles for the first time since 2021.
- Playing in Berkeley following 16 consecutive regionals hosted on The Farm, Glozman defeated Ma in singles, before teaming up with Ma to take down Blokhina and Valencia Xu in doubles. Glozman is the first freshman to win in singles since Ma in 2021.
- By virtue of her runner-up finish, Ma joined Glozman as a qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship. Becuse Glozman had already earned her NCAA spot at the ITA All-American Championships, a third-place playoff was contested to determine the region's second NCAA automatic qualifier and Blokhina won that match over Washington's Reece Carter to book her ticket to Waco.
- The doubles title for Glozman and Ma also qualified the pair for the NCAA Doubles Championship late next month.
- Fourteen Cardinal have won an NCAA Singles title, the most recent being Nicole Gibbs in 2013. Mallory Burdette and Nicole Gibbs in 2012 were the last of eight NCAA Doubles champions from Stanford.
- Both totals are the most in the nation.
- While no stranger to The Farm, Stanford begins its first season with Frankie Brennan as the program’s Peter and Helen Bing Director of Women's Tennis. The third-generation coach was hired to replace the legendary Lele Forood on Sept. 11. Forood announced she was stepping down following 24 seasons and 10 NCAA titles as head coach on Aug. 20.
- Brennan has been on staff at Stanford for 29 seasons and a part of 12 of Stanford’s record 20 NCAA championships. The Cardinal has gone 700-71 during his tenure.
- On Sept. 19, Brennan hired Stanford alumna Janice Shin as his assistant coach. A two-time NCAA team champion during her playing career from 2018-21, Shin was a key contributor on Stanford’s 2018 and 2019 NCAA title teams, going a perfect 8-0 in postseason matches and earning NCAA All-Tournament Team recognition at No. 5 singles both years.
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Three Cardinal to NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships in Waco