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Women’s Tennis Concludes Regular Season On The Road
April 9, 2026 | Women's Tennis
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – No. 5 University of North Carolina women's tennis is set to wrap up the regular season with a pair of road matches in the Sunshine State. Carolina will open the weekend at Miami April 10 at noon. The team will then take on Florida State in Tallahassee April 12 at noon.
The Tar Heels are coming off a 3-0 week including two top-25 wins. Carolina heads into the final week of the regular season with a 21-2 overall record while going 9-1 in league play. The team went undefeated at home during the regular season.
UNC last clashed with Miami in the 2025 season at home. The Tar Heels swept the Hurricanes extending their win streak to three against Miami.
Carolina and Florida State met last season where the Tar Heels picked up a sweep over the Seminoles at home. UNC has won the previous 18-straight matches against Florida State.
Tar Heel Tidbits
The Tar Heels are coming off a 3-0 week including two top-25 wins. Carolina heads into the final week of the regular season with a 21-2 overall record while going 9-1 in league play. The team went undefeated at home during the regular season.
UNC last clashed with Miami in the 2025 season at home. The Tar Heels swept the Hurricanes extending their win streak to three against Miami.
Carolina and Florida State met last season where the Tar Heels picked up a sweep over the Seminoles at home. UNC has won the previous 18-straight matches against Florida State.
Tar Heel Tidbits
- Reese Brantmeier was tabbed ACC Player of the Week for the third time this season after going 3-0 in singles and doubles last week. The senior earned three ranked wins in singles and two in doubles.
- Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton were named ACC Doubles Team of the Week for the second time this season after going 3-0 with two ranked wins.
- The Tar Heels improved to 9-1 in ACC play after going 3-0 last week including wins over no. 24 Duke and no. 20 Clemson.
- The team has earned six sweeps in conference action.
- UNC swept UNCG in the nonconference finale.
- The Tar Heels went 12-1 in nonconference play this season.
- UNC has earned four top-15 wins so far this season. The most recent coming against no. 6 Oklahoma.
- The Tar Heels boast a 15-0 record at home this season.
- Tatum Evans was tabbed ACC Player of the Week for the first time in her career Feb. 10. The junior went 3-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles including a ranked singles win during the ITA Indoor Championships.
- Reese Brantmeier was named ACC Player of the Week for the second consecutive week (Feb. 3) after having another standout weekend for the Tar Heels going 2-0 in singles and 1-1 in doubles while helping lead the team to two top-10 wins. Both of Brantmeier's singles wins clinched the team win for Carolina against no. 9 NC State and no. 1 Georgia.
- Reese Brantmeier and doubles partner Alanis Hamilton were tabbed ACC Doubles Team of the Week on Jan. 27 after topping two ranked opponents from Virginia and Charlotte. The duo has gone 5-1 to start the season.
- Oby Kajuru was tabbed ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 20 for the first time since she joined the program. No. 23 Oby Kajuru defeated no. 5 Savannah Dada-Mascoll from App State for the first ranked singles win among the Tar Heels this season. The win helped the graduate earn the weekly honor from the league.
- The Tar Heels downed no. 14 Virginia, 6-1, for their first ranked win of the 2026 campaign.
- With the team's win over App State, head coach Brian Kalbas reached 800 career wins. Kalbas remains the winningest active coach in NCAA tennis and just the third all-time to reach 800 wins.
- Partners Brantmeier/Hamilton and Kajuru/Maltby earned All-America honors in the fall after reaching the quarterfinals at the NCAA Individual Championships.
- Reese Brantmeier won the 2025 NCAA Singles National Championship and headed into the spring ranked no. 1 in singles.
- Brantmeier earned All-America honors in singles this fall making the senior eight-for-eight in All-America selections across her career.
- Carolina ranked no. 5 in the latest ITA Team Rankings.
- Four Tar Heels are featured in the ITA Singles Rankings (Brantmeier – 2, Kajuru – 11, Evans – 31, Hamilton – 93).
- Three doubles pairings are among the ITA Doubles Rankings (Brantmeier/Hamilton – 5, Kajuru/Maltby – 6, Rennard/Boyce – 64).
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