Women's Tennis - Kansas Jayhawks

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas Women’s Tennis will be back in action this weekend in a pair of locations as the Jayhawks will compete in Oklahoma at the Tulsa UTR and at the North Carolina Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C. Both events will run from Friday-Sunday, September 24-26.

The Kansas women's tennis team capped off a busy season opening weekend of tennis at the Battle in the Bay in San Francisco, California and the Wahoowa Invitational in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the Jayhawks got their first action of the fall season.

The Kansas women’s tennis team competed on opposites sides of the country, with two Jayhawks competing at the Battle in the Bay in San Francisco, while a group of Jayhawks competed at the Wahoowa Invitational in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday.

The Kansas women's tennis team opened its fall portion of the 2021 schedule at the Battle in the Bay in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, where Malkia Ngounoue and Roxana Manu competed in singles.

Kansas women’s tennis is set to open its 2021 fall schedule this week, when they split for the Battle of the Bay in San Francisco, Calif., from Sept. 16-19 and the Wahoowa Invitational in Charlottesville, Va., from Sept. 17-19.

Continuously on the cutting edge in college athletics, Kansas Athletics has officially launched Jayhawks Ascend -- a program designed to assist student-athletes in their journey of pursuing a degree from the University of Kansas.

Head coach Todd Chapman has announced the addition of Jaron Maestas as the assistant coach for the 2021-22 season.

Kansas Athletics student-athletes continued to standout in the classroom, collecting a 3.40 department grade-point average for the 2021 spring semester. Each of the 14 teams recorded a 3.00 GPA or better, with five teams establishing new program records.

The Kansas women’s tennis team concluded its Spring 2021 season, that was highlighted with top-100 rankings from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and 7-0 a shutout of Southeast Missouri State on the courts at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.

The junior duo of Malkia Ngounoue and Tiffany Lagarde earned recognition on the 2021 All-Big 12 individual women’s tennis postseason awards, as announced by the league office on Tuesday afternoon.

Julia Deming, Vasiliki Karvouni, Sonia Smagina and Carmen Roxana Manu of the Kansas women’s tennis team were named to the 2021 Academic All-Big 12 Teams as announced by the league office on Thursday morning.