{"id":444601,"date":"2026-02-02T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:32:16","slug":"womens-tennis-to-welcome-no-1-georgia-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444601\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Tennis To Welcome No. 1 Georgia On Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 3 University of North Carolina women’s tennis will welcome the defending National Champions, no. 1 Georgia, to Chewning Tennis Center Sunday at 1 p.m.
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\nCarolina opened the weekend with a win over no. 9 NC State and will look to carry that momentum over into Sunday. Reese Brantmeier<\/a> headlined the win for the Tar Heels after clinching the match for the team in singles play.\u00a0
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\nThe Tar Heels will meet familiar competition in the Bulldogs after going 6-1 against Georgia over the past five seasons.\u00a0
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\nMost recently, the teams clashed twice last season where they split the meetings 1-1. UNC topped Georgia on the road early in the 2025 season, 4-3. The Tar Heels and Bulldogs later met again in the NCAA Championship Semifinals in Waco, Texas. Georgia went on to down Carolina 4-0 en route to winning the National Championship.
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\nSunday’s match will feature talented lineups on both sides as Carolina currently has five players nationally ranked while Georgia has six.
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\nTar Heel Tidbits<\/p>\n


\n\tCarolina topped no. 9 NC State, 4-3, Friday at Cary Tennis Park.
\n\tReese Brantmeier<\/a>\u00a0was named ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 27 after picking up two ranked wins last week. The senior has started the season 4-0 in singles.\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 4-1 to start the season.
\n\tCarolina ranked no. 3 for the third consecutive week in the ITA Team Rankings.
\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 6-0 in singles and 2-0 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 heads 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\tFive Tar Heels are featured in the ITA Singles Rankings (Brantmeier \u2013 1, Kajuru \u2013 23, Evans \u2013 35, Rabman \u2013 51, Hamilton \u2013 69).
\n\tFour doubles pairings are among the ITA Doubles Rankings (Kajuru\/Maltby \u2013 3, Brantmeier\/Hamilton \u2013 11, Rennard\/Boyce \u2013 42, Evans\/Rabman \u2013 49). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 3 University of North Carolina women’s tennis will welcome the defending National Champions, no. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-444601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}