TALLAHASSEE \u2013\u00a0The Florida State women’s tennis team (4-10, 0-4 ACC)\u00a0is\u00a0set to host its first home ACC matches this weekend at the Scott Speicher Memorial Tennis Center. Friday marks FSU’s Seminole Heritage match against No. 15 Virginia (11-4, 4-0) at 4 p.m. with the weekend concluding on Sunday for a Paint It Pink match against Virginia Tech (3-9, 0-4) at noon.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles are 28-18 all-time against the Cavaliers dating back to 1978. FSU defeated Virginia at Speicher in 2021 in a top-10\u00a0matchup and earned a 4-3 victory. Florida State also holds a 23-4 all-time lead over the Hokies, defeating them 5-2 in their last matchup at Speicher, and have won five consecutive matches in the series.<\/p>\n
Florida State has shown strength in doubles play, posting a 20-15 dual match record. Eva Shaw<\/a> and Tina Li<\/a> lead the way with a 5-2 record, including three ACC victories.<\/p>\n In singles, Mary Boyce Deatherage<\/a> and Shaw both have 11 singles victories.\u00a0 Shaw enters the weekend 2-1 in ACC play. Freshman Abby Kelliher<\/a> has added depth with a 2-1 dual match record.<\/p>\n Florida State will look to carry momentum from its last home outing, where it earned a pair of 4-0 victories over Georgia State and Alabama State. The Seminoles are 3-1 at home this season and will look to bring that success into conference play.<\/p>\n Admission is free to all FSU home tennis matches. Live stats and video will be available on seminoles.com.<\/p>\n For more information on the Florida State women’s tennis program, check Seminoles.com and follow us on social media at FSUWTennis (IG) and @FSU_WTennis (X).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2013\u00a0The Florida State women’s tennis team (4-10, 0-4 ACC)\u00a0is\u00a0set to host its first home ACC matches this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-199281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}