TEMPE – No. 14 Sun Devil Women’s Tennis remains at home for its final two home matches of the regular season, facing Texas Tech on Friday, April 3 at 5 p.m. MST, then face Colorado on Sunday, April 5 at 12 p.m. at Whiteman Tennis Center.
Sunday’s match against Colorado is senior day, celebrating graduate Vivian Ovrootsky. This season as a Sun Devil, Ovrootsky holds a 15-0 singles record this spring and has 27 wins this year. She was a 2024 Big 12 Individual Champion at No. 5 Singles two years ago at Texas and has 97 career wins in singles play. Additionally, she was part of the 2022 national championship team at Texas and played doubles with current assistant coach Charlotte Chvatipon.
Although there will be no live stream. Live stats will be available on StatBroadcast, and fans can follow live updates on the team’s social media accounts @sundevilwtennis on Instagram and X, Sun Devil Women’s Tennis on Facebook, and on sundevils.com.
Last time out:
Arizona State won both of its conference matches this past weekend, dropping only one point between two matches. They began with a 4-1 victory over Kansas on Friday night, marking their first win against the Jayhawks as conference opponents. Vivian Ovrootsky continued her dominant season, moving to 15-0 on the dual season with a hard fought three-set victory and Lily Taylor clinched the win, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 over Meriem Ben Ezzedine.
The team continued their success into Sunday where the Sun Devils swept Iowa State 4-0. Sophomore Aiya Nupbay, clinched her fourth Big 12 match in just eight appearances, 6-4, 6-2 on court No. 4. Junior Emilija Tverijonaite improved her win streak to six straight, defeating her No. 83-ranked Mari Paz Vilar, 6-1, 6-3 for her 27th win of the year.
Sun Devil outlook:
No. 14 Arizona State (15-4, 7-2 Big 12)
- With a win on Friday, it would be ASU’s sixth straight conference win, matching the longest win streak in conference play since March 22, 2024 - April 20, 2024.
- The Sun Devils are 14-2 this season when they win a singles match from the No. 3 position.
- To add, ASU is 8-1 when they win a singles match from the No. 4 spot, and 1-3 when they drop a point from the No. 4 position in the lineup.
- Emlija Tverijonaite became the 27th Sun Devil all time to reach 70+ career singles wins on March 21st in a win against Cincinnati, and carries a 72-25 career record, winning 74.2 percent of matches as a Sun Devil.
- With one win in singles this weekend, she would enter into a tie for 20th all time with Claire Schmoyer (1972 – 1975) with 73 singles wins.
- Additionally, one win in singles would tie her for fifth most all time in a season at 29 and has the chance to be the sixth Sun Devil to win 30+ singles matches in a season.
- Tverijonaite leads the team with 28 wins in singles this season, which is tied for sixth most in a season by a Sun Devil. It’s the most by an ASU player since Desirae Krawczyk in 2016.
- Graduate Vivian Ovrootsky has 27 wins in singles this season, which is tied for seventh all time in a season. This spring, both Ovrootsky and Tverijonaite have combined for a 30-5 record in singles.
- Ovrootsky leads the team with 15 wins this dual season, including a perfect 12-0 mark from the No. 3 position. She has won 31 of her last 33 sets since the dual season began.
- ASU is 11-2 this season when Tverijonaite wins from the No. 1 spot.
- The Sun Devils are 10-0 this spring when they win the doubles point.
- Sophomore Aiya Nupbay has won six-straight singles matches entering the weekend, all earning victories in straight sets. She clinched the win against Iowa State last Sunday.
- The Sun Devils have five wins this season when they lose the doubles point.
Opponent outlook
No. 34 Texas Tech (14-7, 5-4 Big 12)
- Texas Tech’s highest ranked win this season came against then-ranked No. 36 Houston on the road earlier this month.
- Yekaterina Dmitrichenko and Hailey Murphy are currently the No. 55 ranked doubles pair in the country, according to the latest ITA rankings. The pair currently have a record of 18-4.
- Senior Hailey Murphy boasts a 11-4 record this spring with nine wins coming from the No. 1 position in the lineup. She is 3-2 against ranked opponents.
- In their meeting last season, Arizona State fell 4-2 on the road in Lubbock, Tx. The Sun Devils are 3-4 against the Red Raiders historically with both teams facing off in the Red and Blue Invite in Tucson two months ago, where ASU came away with a 4-1 win.
No. 65 Colorado (10-9, 2-7 Big 12)
- The Sun Devils are 16-0 against the Buffaloes all time, with their most recent meeting being Arizona State’s 4-1 victory in the second round of the Big 12 Tournament last season.
- The team’s two conference wins were 4-0 over Iowa State on February 27, and 4-2 against Oklahoma State on March 8.
- Lera Alexin leads the team with 10 wins in dual matches while splitting time between the No. 4 and 5 positions in the lineup.
- Alexin and Rixt Van Der Werff in doubles lead the team with a 19-8 record this season and have an 8-6 dual record. The most among all pairs.
Women’s Tennis Most Singles Wins in Season (1985-Present)
1. Kelcy McKenna - 33 (2008, 2009)
2. Adria Engel - 32 (2001)
3. Allison Bradshaw - 31 (1999)
Kori Davison - 31 (1994)
4. Adira Engel - 30 (2003)
5. Reka Cseresnyes - 29 (1995)
Kelcy McKenna - 29 (2011)
6. Mhairi Brown - 28 (2001)
Emilija Tverijonaite - 28 (2025-26)
Sabrina Capannolo - 28 (2004)
Desirae Krawczyk - 28 (2014, 2016)
Gussie O’Sullivan - 28 (2016)
Megan Yeats - 28 (2000)
7. Marianna Argyrokastriti - 27 (2022-23)
Vivian Ovrootsky - 27 (2025-26)
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