ORLANDO, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 The University of Richmond women’s tennis team has earned the No. 3 seed for the 2026 Atlantic 10 Women’s Tennis Championship and will open postseason play Thursday, April 23 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Spiders will face the winner of No. 6 Rhode Island and No. 11 George Mason, slated for Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m., in the quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n
Richmond enters the championship with a 10-10 overall record and a 3-1 mark in Atlantic 10 play, closing the regular season with a narrow 3-4 setback at No. 59 Old Dominion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After opening the spring against a challenging non-conference slate that featured two nationally ranked opponents, the Spiders surged late in the season, winning six of their final eight matches prior to the regular-season finale. Richmond secured conference victories over Rhode Island, Davidson and George Mason, including a 4-0 road sweep of the Patriots to cap league play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Individually,\u00a0Lucy Webber<\/a> leads the team with an 11-7 record in dual singles, while Abby Lee<\/a> has added a 10-9 mark and a perfect 3-0 record in Atlantic 10 matches. Lee and Webber each enter the tournament on a five-match win streak in singles play.<\/p>\n Lainey O’Neil<\/a> has posted a 9-7 record in dual singles, highlighted by wins in three of her last four completed matches, while Beatriz Guerra<\/a> has been dominant in conference play with a 3-0 mark, including four straight-set victories.\u00a0<\/p>\n In doubles, the pairing of Guerra and Lee enters postseason play on a three-match win streak and holds a 3-2 overall record together, including a 2-1 mark in Atlantic 10 competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n The No. 3 seed marks the second consecutive season the Spiders have earned a top-three seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship after advancing to the title match in 2025 and in 2024 as an eight seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 The University of Richmond women’s tennis team has earned the No. 3 seed for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-239876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239876","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=239876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}