WICHITA, Kan. -- No. 29 Wichita State (27-3) makes its eighth-consecutive NCAA Regional appearance and will open against No. 37 TCU (15-6) in Friday's First Round. The eight-time defending Missouri Valley Conference champion Shockers have won a school-record 17-straight matches but are in search of their first postseason win in nine years. An opening round triumph would also set a new program record for most dual wins in a season.
 

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NCAA Women's Tennis Team Championships
Coral Gables (Fla.) Regional
 
Friday, May 13 – First Round
10:00 a.m. CT – #29 Wichita State vs. #37 TCU - ESPN3
1:00 p.m. CT - #7 Miami vs. Quinnipiac - ESPN3
 
Saturday, May 14 – Second Round
10:00 a.m. CT – WSU/TCU winner vs. Miami/Quinnipiac winner - ESPN3
 

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Match Notes:  TCU
 Miami
 Quinnipiac

Telecast:
ESPN3: Watch
J. Webb Horton (Friday PBP), Juan Arango (Saturday PBP), Luis Fernando Manrique (Analyst)
 
Live Scoring:
HurricaneSports.com
 
Social Media:
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Youtube - youtube.com/wsuathletics
 

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 TOURNEY TIDBITS
 
• WSU has played in 10 of the last 11 NCAA Tournaments. Prior to 2006, the Shockers' only other taste of the postseason had come in 1982 when they qualified for the 16-team AIAW Tournament under current Notre Dame head coach, Jay Louderback.
 
• WSU climbed as high as No. 13 in the Oracle/ITA Division I Rankings in early March, and its current No. 29 rating is its best-ever heading into the postseason. This also marks the first time that the Shockers have played a First Round match as the high seed.
 
• This is WSU's third NCAA trip to Coral Gables. It's the site of the Shockers' lone NCAA Tournament win back in 2007. Ranked 35th that year, WSU downed No. 25 South Carolina in the First Round before eventually falling to the host Hurricane. The Shockers returned to Coral Gables in 2014 but dropped a 4-2 First Round decision to No. 18 Oklahoma.
 
• WSU will be trekking to the Sunshine State for the third year-in-a-row for NCAA Tournament play. In 2015, the team was assigned to the Gainesville Regional where it dropped a 4-3 heartbreaker to No. 24 Georgia Tech. The swing match came at No. 4 singles, where WSU had a match-point opportunity in a second-set tiebreaker. Instead, Tech rallied back to force a third and eventually claimed the deciding point.
 
• All five of the Shockers' matches against teams in this year's field of 64 came in true road settings. WSU dispatched a pair of No. 2 seeds in Kansas and Tulsa but fell to Arkansas (No. 3), Oklahoma State (No. 1) and Texas A&M (No. 2).
 
ELITE COMPANY
 
8 -- Consecutive NCAA appearances for Wichita State, dating back to 2009.
25 -- Number of teams in this year's Division I field with a streak of 8+ NCAA bids.
4 -- Number of teams from outside the "power-5" conferences on that list of 25: Wichita State (MVC), Tulsa (AAC), VCU (A10) and Pepperdine (WCC).
 
ABOUT THE SHOCKERS
 
• No. 29 Wichita State is led by a core of veterans. Four of the top-six in the rotation are seniors and all but one have seen action in at least one NCAA Tournament.
 
• WSU's 27 dual wins ranks second nationally behind North Carolina (29) and is tied for the school record set by the 2006-07 Shockers, who went 27-3.
 
• Head coach Colin Foster has made the NCAA Tournament in all seven of his seasons at WSU, and his .726 winning percentage (138-52) is the highest in school history.
 
• WSU faced one of the nation's most difficult non-conference schedules, and racked up some serious mileage in the process. The Shockers played 14 times against teams that were ranked at some point during the regular season (with 12 of those coming at either a road or neutral site) and went 11-3, resulting in a much-needed strength of schedule boost and an influx in quality wins.
 
• WSU went 11-0 in Wichita, extending its school-record home winning streak to 35 matches. The Shockers last tasted defeat in their home city in February of 2013.
 
TCU MATCHUP NOTES:
 
• The WSU coaching staff is well-acquainted with first-round opponent, TCU. Colin Foster spent three years there as an assistant before taking over the WSU program in 2009, and his wife/assistant coach, Kewa (Nichols) Foster, was a two-time all-conference selection for the Horned Frogs during her playing days.
• The No. 1 doubles portion will be a rematch of last September's OU Fall Invite championship match. TCU's team of Arantekin/Wegner defeated WSU's duo of Porubin/Schiller 6-2.
• WSU and TCU also collided in the OU Fall Invite singles draw. Alexis Pereira (TCU Alternate) defeated Julia Schiller (WSU #3) 6-4, 7-5 in the Round of 16, and Aleksandra Zenovka (TCU #5) won a winner's bracket consolation match over Abby Stevens (WSU #6), 6-4, 6-1.
• TCU No. 1 singles player, Marie Norris, is from the Western Kansas town of Burdett.
• TCU leads the all-time series 5-0. The first three meetings took place in Fort Worth in the mid-to-late 1980s. Foster's arrival at WSU inspired two more recent matchups. The Frogs won a narrow, 4-3 decision in Wichita in Foster's first season (2010) and swept WSU 6-0 in Fort Worth in 2013.
 
HOT SPOTS
 
• WSU's six rotation players have combined to drop just two singles sets since March 15, while winning 96.
 
• Five of the six players in WSU's rotation enter the weekend with double-digit winning streaks: Giulia Guidetti (17), Gabriela Porubin (11), Rebecca Pedrazzi (11) and Aleks Trifunovic (10). The "weak link" is at No. 3 singles where Julia Schiller has won merely seven-in-a-row.
 
WEEKLY STRONG
 
Wichita State set a new Missouri Valley Conference record by winning the league's Player of the Week Award in 11 of the 15 weeks. Giulia Guidetti became the first Shocker to win four times in a single season, and Rebecca Pedrazzi picked up three wins of her own.
 
PORUBIN HEADED TO NATIONALS
 
Wichita State will need to win two dual matches this weekend to reach to the NCAA Championship site in Tulsa, Okla., but its top player is already guaranteed a trip.
 
Sophomore Gabriela Porubin (ITA No. 91) earned the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Individual Championships, joining a short list of Shocker women who have competed in the women's singles draw. Lutfiana Budiharto made trips in 2010 and 12, and Madina Rakhim (2007) and Sandy Sadler (1984) round out the group.
 
GUIDED BY GUIDETTI
 
Sohomore Giulia Guidetti (38-5) broke a 32-year old single-season record for individual wins and ranks second overall among players in this year's tournament field, behind North Carolina's Hayley Carter (42-4).
 
Guidetti enjoyed a solid freshman year, going 16-1 (7-0 in duals), but she failed to crack WSU's singles or doubles rotation and did not participate in the team's NCAA Tournament dual against Georgia Tech. A year later, Guidetti has played a key role in WSU's success, winning 17-straight matches coming into the postseason.
 
Momentum traces all the way back to October. After a rough first round loss in the ITA Central Regional, Guidetti reeled off five-straight wins to earn the consolation bracket title and has been tough to beat ever since, winning 35 of her last 37 singles decisions.
 
30-WIN CLUB
 
• Senior Abby Stevens (No. 6 singles, 30-11 overall) is the first player in program history to win 30 matches in back-to-back years. Only six other Shockers have done it even once.
 
• Stevens and Guidetti are two of the winningest teammates in America. Their 68 combined wins trail only UNC's Hayley Carter and Jessie Aney (75).
 
HOMECOMING FOR TRIFUNOVIC
 
Senior Aleksandra Trifunovic – from Gothenburg, Sweden, played her first two collegiate seasons at Florida International in Miami before transferring to Wichita State in the fall of 2014. She's 58-9 in two seasons as a Shocker.
 
TOURNEY VETERANS
 
• Seniors Rebecca Pedrazzi and Julia Schiller are each making their fourth NCAA Team Tournament appearances. Abby Stevens has played in three and Gabriela Porubin and Aleks Trifunovic have experienced one-each.
 
• Pedrazzi posted wins at No. 1 doubles and No. 3 singles in the  First Round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament and also won a match in 2014 at No. 2 doubles. Her next dual match point would make her WSU's career NCAA leader.
 
SERVICE WITH A SMILE
 
Earlier this week, senior Rebecca Pedrazzi earned the ITA Central Region's 2016 Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship.
 
The Cissie Leary Award is given annually to a Division I women's tennis player who displays inspiring dedication and commitment to her team, which has enhanced her team's performance and exemplified the spirit of college tennis. The award dates back to 1997 and is in memory of the late and widely admired Penn women's tennis coach Cissie Leary.