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Women's Tennis

ACC Championship Opens With Virginia Tech

No. 9 seed Stanford starts Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. PT against the No. 17 seed Hokies

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  • No. 9 seed Stanford (11-9, 7-5 ACC) is in Cary, N.C. for the ACC Championship, which begins in Wednesday’s second round at 12:30 p.m. PT against 17th-seeded Virginia Tech (5-16, 1-11 ACC).
    • If the Cardinal was to prevail, a third-round match with No. 8 seed SMU would await on Thursday at the same time. No. 1 seed Virginia awaits in the quarterfinals on Friday.
  • Stanford is 2-0 all-time against the Hokies, winning 4-2 last season in Blacksburg and 4-0 this year on April 3 in the first-ever match at the new Arrillaga Tennis Center on campus.
  • Stanford is No. 33 in the ITA rankings released on April 14 and has three players in the singles rankings in Valerie Glozman (#21), Monika Ekstrand (#25) and Alyssa Ahn (#56).
  • The Cardinal’s No. 1-ranked freshman class has been as good as advertised this season.
    • Monika Ekstrand was a back-to-back Co-Freshman of the Week on Feb. 17 and 24. She leads the team with six clinchers and has seven victories over ranked opponents (including fall). Ekstrand is a 5-1 against ranked opponents in duals. She is 13-3 during the dual season, all at the No. 1 spot, and is the ACC’s highest-ranked freshman.
    • Tianmei Wang was the conference’s first ACC Freshman of the Week on Jan. 20 after going 3-0 in singles, including a 6-3, 6-0 win over Cal’s 63rd-ranked Naomi Xu. Wang has been on a tear since the calendar turned to March and is 6-1 in her last seven matches.
    • Alyssa Ahn is 6-1 in ACC play and has lost just once since February.
  • Stanford's fall was highlighted by Glozman capping an incredible start to her sophomore season by winning the ITA Women's All-American singles title in late September, beating Carmen Herea of Texas in the final, 6-2, 6-3.
    • She became the first champion from Stanford since Hilary Bartein 2010 and the fourth all-time, joining Patty Fendick (1987), Sandra Birch (1989, 1990) and Barte.
    • Her victory also edged the Cardinal in front of Florida for the most ITA All-American women's singles titles of all time with five.
  • Freshman Alyssa Ahn burst onto the scene in her second tournament for Stanford, winning the ITA Northwest Regional Championships singles title in mid-October with a 6-0, 6-1 throttling California's Naomi Xu.
    • Ahn became the second consecutive freshman winner of the tournament for the Cardinal, following Valerie Glozman in 2024. Stanford has now produced the tournament singles champion in 13 of the last 15 years.
  • Both Glozman and Ahn qualified for the NCAA Single Championship in Orlando in November with Glozman the event's No. 1 seed. Her win at All-Americans also secured the sophomore All-America status.
  • Ahn, along with Monika Ekstrand and Tianmei Wang comprise the nation's No. 1 recruiting class. All three are blue-chip recruits according to the Tennis Recruiting Network.
  • It was a strong summer for the Cardinal, highlighted by Stanford participation at the US Open.
    • Glozman and Ahn both earned main draw wild cards, Glozman by winning the women's singles title at the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs in June and Ahn by winning the singles title at the USTA Billie Jean King Girls' 18s National Championships.
    • Ekstrand received a women's qualifying draw wild card, while Wang received a wild card into the girls' singles main draw.
  • Stanford is in its second season under head coach Frankie Brennan. Last year, the Cardinal put together a 17-9 record, making its 43rd consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and its 42nd trip to the Round of 16.
    • Since joining the staff in 1996, Brennan has enhanced Stanford's reputation as the country's top program by helping guide the Cardinal to a 728-89 overall record, 12 NCAA championships, 21 conference regular-season titles and six conference tournament crowns. During his tenure, Brennan has mentored 39 All-Americans.