{"id":505938,"date":"2026-02-28T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505938\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:30:09","slug":"womens-tennis-returns-to-acc-play-sunday-at-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505938\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Returns To ACC Play Sunday At SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 3 University of North Carolina women’s tennis will return to ACC action Sunday against SMU in Dallas, Texas. The Tar Heels and Mustangs will begin play at 1 p.m. ET. This weekend’s matchup is the first road ACC match for Carolina this season.
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\nSunday marks just the second meeting between the teams. The programs have only clashed once since SMU joined the ACC two years ago. Carolina hosted SMU and collected a 4-0 sweep during the 2025 season.\u00a0
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\nIn singles competition, the Tar Heels are familiar with no. 66 Sophie Llewellyn from the Mustangs. No. 1 Reese Brantmeier<\/a> faced Llewellyn in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Singles National Championship. Brantmeier earned a three-set win en route to winning the singles national title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tar Heel Tidbits
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\n\tCarolina earned their fourth-straight sweep in a 7-0 win over NC Central.\u00a0
\n\tUNC moves to 2-0 in ACC play after sweeping Syracuse and Boston College.
\n\tUNC has earned four top-15 wins so far this season. The most recent coming against no. 6 Oklahoma.
\n\tThe Tar Heels boast a 10-0 record at home this season.
\n\tTatum Evans<\/a> 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.
\n\tReese Brantmeier<\/a>\u00a0was 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.\u00a0\u00a0
\n\tReese Brantmeier<\/a>\u00a0and doubles partner\u00a0Alanis Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0were 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.
\n\tOby Kajuru<\/a>\u00a0was tabbed ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 20 for the first time since she joined the program. No. 23\u00a0Oby Kajuru<\/a>\u00a0defeated 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.
\n\tThe Tar Heels downed no. 14 Virginia, 6-1, for their first ranked win of the 2026 campaign.
\n\tWith the team’s win over App State, head coach\u00a0Brian Kalbas<\/a>\u00a0reached 800 career wins. Kalbas remains the winningest active coach in NCAA tennis and just the third all-time to reach 800 wins.\u00a0
\n\tFreshman\u00a0Anna Frey<\/a>\u00a0has started her collegiate career 10-1 in singles and 5-1 in doubles matches with partner\u00a0Tatum Evans<\/a>.
\n\tPartners Brantmeier\/Hamilton and Kajuru\/Maltby earned All-America honors in the fall after reaching the quarterfinals at the NCAA Individual Championships.
\n\tReese Brantmeier<\/a>\u00a0won the 2025 NCAA Singles National Championship and headed into the spring ranked no. 1 in singles.
\n\tBrantmeier earned All-America honors in singles this fall making the senior eight-for-eight in All-America selections across her career.
\n\tCarolina ranked no. 3 for the fifth consecutive week in the ITA Team Rankings.
\n\tSix Tar Heels are featured in the ITA Singles Rankings (Brantmeier \u2013 1, Kajuru \u2013 6, Evans \u2013 17, Hamilton \u2013 58, Frey \u2013 70, Rabman \u2013 100).
\n\tFour doubles pairings are among the ITA Doubles Rankings (Brantmeier\/Hamilton \u2013 5, Kajuru\/Maltby \u2013 6, Rennard\/Boyce \u2013 53, Evans\/Rabman \u2013 83). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 3 University of North Carolina women’s tennis will return to ACC action Sunday against SMU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-505938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}