Exciting Lineup: Women’s Tennis Reveals 2025 Match Schedule!

SEATTLE – The Washington women’s tennis squad has revealed its match schedule for 2025, commencing its first season in the Big Ten Conference.

Head Coach Robin Stephenson will embark on her 11^th season leading the Huskies, accompanied by second-year assistant coaches Dani Melendez and Jennifer Kerr.

B1G THINGS ON THE HORIZON

The Big Ten women’s tennis now comprises 18 teams, with Washington, Oregon, UCLA, and USC joining the league ahead of the 2024-25 academic year.

In the previous season, Michigan topped the league standings, securing an unblemished 11-0 in conference play and 29-4 overall. This included a journey to the championship match, ultimately losing 4-3 to Oklahoma State in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Seattle last year.

The Wolverines clinched their third consecutive Big Ten Tournament title last season with a victory over Ohio State before advancing to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, where they fell 4-1 to Pepperdine.

Michigan, Ohio State, Northwestern, and Wisconsin dominated the conference last season, all achieving 19+ win seasons.

Four Big Ten teams ended last season in the top 15 of the final ITA rankings, which include No. 5 Michigan, No. 9 UCLA, No. 13 USC, and No. 15 Ohio State.

WHAT’S TO COME

Washington will kick off its 2025 competition itinerary with a visit to Hawaii to face the University of Hawaii on Jan. 17.

ITA Kick-off Weekend will occur this year in Los Angeles for the Huskies alongside UCLA, Columbia, and Central Florida from Jan. 24-27 before UW hosts its first match at Nordstrom Tennis Center against Portland on Jan. 29.

The Dawgs will compete in five non-conference matches before commencing Big Ten contests, which includes a trip across the state to Gonzaga on Feb. 9, home matches against Washington State (Feb. 14) and Arizona State (Feb. 16), and a journey to southern California to face San Diego State (Feb. 22) and San Diego (Feb. 23).

Conference action will start on the road for Washington, as the Huskies will venture to Maryland and Rutgers for their initial Big Ten road trip of the year.

They will host familiar challengers USC and UCLA in their first conference home encounters on March 14 and March 16, respectively.

Big Ten Championships will also be held in a familiar location this season for UW – in Ojai, Calif., where the Dawgs previously participated in Pac-12s – from April 23 through April 26.

The complete match schedule is available here.

THAT WAS SO LAST YEAR

Several Dawgs appear in the ITA preseason rankings in doubles, featuring Reece Carter and Alexia Jacobs at No. 37, alongside Sophie Luescher and Erika Matsuda at No. 115.

In their initial match as a doubles team at the ITA All-American Championships in the fall of 2024, Carter and Jacobs shocked the top doubles pair in the nation, defeating Ange Oby Kajuru and Anastasiya Komar from Oklahoma State.

The OSU duo won the first set, 6-3 and had a 3-1 advantage in the second set before Jacobs and Carter mounted a comeback, saving a couple of match points to force a tiebreak, which they convincingly won, 7-1. This led to another 10-point tiebreak, where the Dawgs triumphed once again, securing the victory, 10-3.

In the singles rankings, freshman Carina Syrtveit holds the No. 104 position, while Carter is ranked No. 121.

OLD DAWGS, NEW TRICKS

Washington bid farewell to four members of the team last year due to senior graduations, Astrid Olsen, Melissa Sakar, Sarah-Maude Fortin, and Dariya Detkovskaya.

Four Huskies received Pac-12 postseason accolades in 2023-24, with Jacobs and Olsen earning spots on the all-conference Second Team, while Matsuda and Sakar gained Pac-12 Honorable Mention accolades.

With a significant amount of experience and high-level tennis departing the team at the end of last season, Stephenson recruited three players, each with multiple years of collegiate tennis background.

Joining the Norwegian first-year Syrtveit in their debut spring season as Huskies are transfers Carter, McKenna Koenig, and Luescher.

Carter joined UW after two seasons at Arizona, Koenig after four seasons at USC, and Luescher after three seasons at Oregon.

MORE ON HUSKY TENNIS

Fans will have 11 opportunities to watch the Dawgs play at home this season, inclusive of seven Big Ten bouts.

Further details on promotions and themes for each home event at Nordstrom Tennis Center and Bill Quillian Tennis Stadium will be shared soon.

For additional information regarding the UW women’s tennis team, follow @uw_wtennis on Instagram and X.