Women’s Tennis Central: UT Fall Invite

Friday, October 16

Knoxville, Tenn.

NO SPECTATORS PERMITTED

University of Tennessee

UT Fall Invite

Photo by: Caleb Jones/Tennessee Athletics

October 15, 2020 | Women's Tennis

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By: Ricky Martinez

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee women's tennis team hosts the UT Fall Invite beginning on Friday at 11 a.m. ET. The Lady Vols square off with Georgia, South Carolina and Vanderbilt for three days of competition inside Barksdale Stadium and the Goodfriend Tennis Center.

"We are excited to have three more SEC teams coming in this weekend," head coach Alison Ojeda said. "Georgia is obviously a world-class team, South Carolina over the last few years has been pretty impressive and then we have Vanderbilt coming in who won a national title in the last seven or eight years. We've got three teams coming in to compete at a high level and I'm looking forward to our team going against them."

NO SPECTATORS THIS FALL
Tennessee teams that are competing in the non-championship portion of their seasons (softball and baseball included) are not hosting spectators this fall. Given the various new health and safety requirements for hosting events, this allows us to responsibly focus our resources and efforts—such as staffing and enhanced sanitization—on events for teams that contest their championship seasons in the fall. Select non-championship fall events will offer a live video stream as an alternative to in-person attendance. We appreciate your support of Tennessee tennis.

COVERAGE
Fans can follow @Vol_WTennis on Twitter for live updates. A complete recap of the action will be posted to UTSports.com following each day of the competition.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE (all times ET)
Friday
11 a.m. – USC vs. Vanderbilt (Singles)
2 p.m. – UT vs. USC | UGA vs. Vanderbilt (Doubles)
3 p.m. UT vs. UGA (Singles)

Saturday
12 p.m. UGA vs. Vanderbilt (Singles)
3 p.m. UT vs. Vanderbilt | UGA vs. USC (Doubles)
4 p.m. UT vs. USC (Singles)

Sunday
10 a.m. – UT vs. UGA | USC vs. Vanderbilt (Doubles)
11 a.m. – UT vs. Vanderbilt | USC vs. UGA (Singles)

LAST TIME OUT
The Lady Vols competed in the Music City Scramble, hosted by Vanderbilt. Newcomer Daria Kuczer paced the team in singles play while several doubles parings found their groove.

Kuczer, a junior transfer by way of Pepperdine, opened her Lady Vol career with a perfect 3-0 mark. The Szczecin, Poland native won all three of her matches in straight sets in Nashville.

Senior Johanna Silva and sophomore Callie Creath went undefeated as a doubles duo in the Music City Invitational. The pair won three matches last weekend to open the fall and are 4-0 as a pair all-time.

After falling in their first doubles match as a duo, senior Tenika McGiffin and freshman Esther Adeshina closed out the Nashville trip with a pair of wins to open the fall with a 2-1 record.

FOLLOW THE LADY VOLS!
Fans can keep up with the latest Tennessee women's tennis news by following the program on its Facebook (Facebook.com/TennesseeWomensTennis), Twitter (@Vol_WTennis) and Instagram (Vol_WTennis) accounts.