The Vanderbilt women’s tennis team will take on Tennessee and Georgia this weekend. Today’s game, Friday, against Tennessee will begin at 3:00 PM. CT followed by Sunday’s game against Georgia at 1pm. CT. Both matches will be played at the Lummis Family Tennis Center and admission is free.
Fans must enter through the 25th Avenue entrance and follow the university’s clear bag policy. Daddy’s Dogs will be set up at Friday’s game and Elliston Place Soda Shop will have a food truck at Sunday’s game. The first $500 of fan food will be compliments of Vanderbilt’s tennis program.
Alcohol will be available for purchase. As reported by the Vanderbilt University website, the Commodores are 2-0 so far in SEC play, snapping wins against Ole Miss and Mississippi State this past weekend. In the latest ITA polls, Vanderbilt ranked five players in the top 120 in singles: Celia-Belle Mohr at No.
48, Bridget Stammel at No. 60, Anna Ross at No. 80, Holly Staff at No. 111 and Anessa Lee at No. 113. Mohr and Lee also earned a No. 68 in doubles. Tennessee won over both Missouri and Arkansas in its SEC debut. Overall, the Lady Vols are 9-2 with both losses suffered by ranked opponents.
The in-state rival has three top 60 singles players and one top 55 doubles player. Georgia, similar to Tennessee, also defeated Arkansas and Missouri this past weekend. The Bulldogs are 8-3 overall this season with two of their three losses coming to No.
1 North Carolina. Georgia had five players earn singles spots this week, as well as two pairs of doubles earn top 40 spots nationally.
About the Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a university in Nashville, Tennessee.
It was founded in 1873 by Cornelius Vanderbilt with a donation of one million dollars. It hosts around 13,000 students. Vanderbilt spent $738 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 31st in the nation. In 2013, Vanderbilt University was ranked ninth in the country in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Vanderbilt is ranked the 116th best university in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 33rd in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Vanderbilt as the 62nd-best university in the world.
Additionally the ARWU Field rankings in 2015 placed Vanderbilt as 18th best in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 21st in Social Sciences. Vanderbilt is a founding and charter member of the Southeastern Conference and for a half-century has been the conference’s only private school.
The university fields six men’s and ten women’s intercollegiate teams and has won five NCAA championships. Photo credits: Vanderbilt University website
