MATCH INFORMATION
 
SMU (2-0) AT WICHITA STATE (1-1)
Monday, Jan. 19 | 12 p.m. CT
Wichita, Kan. | Genesis Rock Road
 
A New Era

• Wichita State women's tennis began its first dual season under head coach Jacob Eddins, who was named the ninth head coach in program history on Sept. 15, 2025, with a season-opening match on Jan. 17 in Norman, Okla.
• 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.
• Eddins became the fifth Shocker head coach to earn a win in his debut all-time and improved the record of Shocker head coaching debuts to 5-4.
• Wichita State has a preseason 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).

Saturday Recap

• Wichita State split its season-opening slate on Saturday, Jan. 17, beating Texas State 4-0 and losing to No. 6 Oklahoma 4-1.
• The Shockers crushed Texas State, not losing a set in doubles or singles en route to the victory. 
• Against Oklahoma, the Shockers competed well, becoming the first team to record a point on the Sooners this season, thanks to a win by Theodora Chantava at No. 3 singles.
• Chantava's 7-5, 6-3 win was the first Shocker singles win against Oklahoma outside of a super tiebreak since 2019.
• Kristina Kudryavtseva and Xin Tong Wang also took the first set from their Sooner opponents, but their matches each went unfinished.

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 best 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 Oct. 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.
• The Shockers are 1-0 this season when they win the doubles point and 0-1 when they don't.

Additional Snippets

• In program history, the Shockers are 290-134 playing at home, a winning percentage of .684
• Wichita State went 4-2 playing at home last season, their fifth-straight year posting a winning record at home and the 20th time in the last 21 seasons with a winning record in Wichita.
• The Shockers were 8-7 last year playing nonconference opponents.
• Playing unranked opponents at home last year, the Shockers were 4-1.
• WSU won its final five matches against unranked opponents last season and won nine of its final 10 against unranked opponents.

SMU Notes

• SMU is 2-0 on the year with a pair of 6-1 wins over Abilene Christian and Air Force

• Kelcy McKenna is in her first year as the head coach of the Mustangs.
• McKenna came to SMU after serving as the head coach at Wisconsin for the past nine seasons.
• Under McKenna, the Badgers turned from a Big Ten basement dweller into a perennial power, regularly making trips to the NCAA Tournament from 2019 to 2025.
• Last season under former head coach Jeff Nevolo, the Mustangs went 12-14 and 4-8 in ACC play, with four top 50-ranked wins over No. 31 Virginia Tech, No. 50 Miami, No. 49 Wichita State, and No. 28 Georgia Tech.

Series History vs. SMU

• SMU leads the series with Wichita State 7-5.
• The Mustangs have won the last five meetings with the Shockers.
• The last Wichita State win in the series came on Feb. 22, 2019, in Wichita, 4-3.
• WSU is 2-3 against SMU in Wichita all-time, but the Mustangs won the last meeting in Wichita, 4-0, on Feb. 27, 2020.

 
Next Up
The Shockers travel to Lubbock, Texas, to take on No. 10 Oklahoma State in the first round of the ITA 
Kickoff Weekend on Friday, Jan. 23.