MATCH INFORMATION
 
WICHITA STATE (0-0) VS. TEXAS STATE (0-0)
Saturday, January 17 | 10:00 AM CT
Norman, Okla. | Headington Family Tennis Center

WICHITA STATE (0-0) AT #6 OKLAHOMA (2-0)
Saturday, January 17 | 1:00 PM CT
Norman, Okla. | Headington Family Tennis Center
 
A New Era

• Wichita State women's tennis is beginning its first year under head coach Jacob Eddins, who was named the ninth head coach in program history on September 15, 2025.
• Eddins came to Wichita from Illinois, where he served as associate head coach for two seasons, accruing 32 dual-match wins and earning two bids to the NCAA Tournament.
• Eddins' stint with Wichita State is his first as a head coach.
• In their head coaching debuts, Wichita State women's tennis head coaches are 4-4 all-time and 2-2 when beginning their stints away from Wichita.
• Wichita State has a team Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) of 57.76, which ranks 65^th nationally and is fourth-highest in the American Conference, behind Charlotte (No. 63), Florida Atlantic (No. 49), and Rice (No. 37).

Fall Notes

• Wichita State earned 24 singles wins and 21 doubles wins during the 2025 fall season.
• Giorgia Roselli's 5-3 singles record was the most among all Shockers, and she paired with Xin Tong Wang to earn 10 doubles victories, the most of any Shocker tandem.
• Kristina Kudryavtseva and Theodora Chantava posted the best winning percentage among WSU doubles teams in the fall at .833.

Doubles Champions

• Wang and Roselli won the 2025 American Conference Doubles Championship on October 26, earning a bid to the 2025 ITA Conference Masters Championship, where they finished fourth.
• The pair faced a total of nine ranked opponents in the fall season, posting a 4-5 record.
• For their fall efforts, Wang and Roselli earned an ITA doubles ranking of No. 24, up seven spots from their preseason ranking of No. 31.
• The ranking is the fifth-highest achieved by a Shocker doubles pair in program history.

Last Year's Leaders

• Chantava's 28 total dual match wins across singles and doubles led the Shockers during the 2025 spring season.
• Chantava led Wichita State in wins in both singles and doubles, recording 14 of each.
• Four Shockers, Chantava, Roselli, Wang, and Anne Knuettel, earned double-digit singles win totals last season.
• Knuettel's 12-3 singles record (.800 winning percentage) was the best on the team.

Remnants of the Past

• Wichita State finished 13-10 last season, reaching a national ranking as high as No. 47, and ending the year ranked No. 60.
• The Shockers return 95.1% of their dual match win production from last season and added an experienced transfer in Vichitraporn Vimuktananda.
• Seven Shockers have at least two years of playing experience. Five are academic seniors or graduate students.
• The five Wichita State seniors are the most on a roster for the Shockers since the 2019-20 season, when they had seven.

Doubles is the Key

• In matches where Wichita State won the doubles point last season, the Shockers won 11 of 13 matches, with the only losses coming against No. 47/46 Charlotte and Washington State.
• When they lost the doubles point, Wichita State went just 2-8.

Additional Snippets

• In program history, the Shockers are 28-22 all-time in season openers.
• The Shockers have never defeated an opponent ranked in the ITA top 15.
• WSU went 4-6 last year against ranked opponents and 2-3 against ranked teams on the road.
• The Shockers lost their final four matches against ranked teams last season.
• Wichita State went 10-4 against unranked teams last season and 2-1 against unranked teams at neutral sites.
• WSU won its final five matches against unranked opponents last season and won nine of its final ten against unranked opponents.
• Wichita State went 2-1 playing in Saturday matches last season, 3-6 in morning matches, and 10-4 playing in afternoon matches.

Texas State Notes

• The Bobcats are in their fourth season under head coach Kendall Brooks.
• Texas State went 16-6 last season, going 2-1 playing teams at neutral sites.
• The Bobcats have a preseason team Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) of 52.15, ranking No. 160 nationally.

Series History vs. Texas State

• The teams have never met.

Oklahoma Notes

• Audra Cohen enters her 10^th season as Oklahoma's head coach during the 2026 spring season.
• Cohen has led the Sooners to a record of 162-66 in her tenure.
• The Sooners are ranked No. 6 in the ITA Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• OU defeated Tarleton State and Wyoming in their first matches of the season.
• Oklahoma has a preseason team UTR of 63.98, which is the eighth highest in the nation.
• Last season, the Sooners went 20-7, reaching the NCAA Tournament Round of 32, before falling to No. 20 Oklahoma State, 4-2.
• The Sooners ended last year ranked No. 10.

Series History vs. Oklahoma

• Oklahoma leads the all-time series with Wichita State, 39-6.
• The Sooners have won the last five matchups.
• Wichita State's last win came on April 1, 2018, in Norman, by a score of 5-2.
• The Shockers are 4-21 all-time against the Sooners in Norman.
• OU has won eight of the last ten meetings.

Next Up
Wichita State hosts SMU on Monday, January 19, at 11:00 AM at Genesis Rock Road. This will be the Mustangs' first trip to Wichita since 2020.