- With a new-look fall calendar, Stanford begins its qualification push for the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships at next week’s ITA Women’s All-American Championships in Cary, North Carolina.
- Four Cardinal student-athletes will be in action at Cary Tennis Park, also the site of the 2025 ACC Tennis Championships. The top 10 singles players and four doubles teams at the tournament will earn bids to the NCAA Individual Championships.
- In January of 2023, the NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee approved a two-year pilot program to hold the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Individual Championships in the fall of 2024 and 2025. Baylor will host the first of these fall individual championships from Nov. 19-24 in Waco, Texas.
- Senior Connie Ma and freshman Valerie Glozman will participate in main draw singles, while Alexis Blokhina and Valencia Xu are slated to begin in the qualifying round. In doubles, Ma and Blokhina are in the main draw and Glozman and Xu are paired in qualifying.
- Qualifying takes place next Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 23 and 24, with main-draw competition starting on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
- The Cardinal enters the fall with six ranked singles players in Connie Ma (No. 4), Alexis Blokhina (No. 64), Valerie Glozman (No. 69), Katherine Hui (No. 76), Valencia Xu (No. 77) and India Houghton (No. 85). Those six players also form three nationally-ranked doubles teams. Ma and Blokhina are No. 19, Xu and Glozman are No. 54 and Houghton and Hui are No. 57.
- Stanford is tied with Florida for the most ITA All-American singles champions all-time (4): Hilary Barte (2010), Sandra Birch (1989, 1990) and Patty Fendrick (1987).
- The Cardinal has also collected a record seven ITA All-American doubles crowns: Mallory Burdette/Nicole Gibbs (2011), Hilary Barte/Mallory Burdette (2010), Lauren Kalvaria/Gabriela Lastra (2000), Marissa Irvin/Teryn Ashley (1998), Heather Willens/Laxmi Poruri (1992), Sandra Birch/Debbie Graham (1990) and Meredith McGrath/Teri Whitlinger (1989).
- 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 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.
- Stanford put together a 25-3 overall campaign in 2023-24, including an 8-1 mark in Pac-12 competition and a 13-1 mark at Taube Family Tennis Center. The program reached the NCAA quarterfinals for the 39th time in 42 NCAA Tournaments and won its third consecutive Pac-12 Tournament title.
