Wake Forest Women’s Tennis Set to Celebrate Senior & Graduates Day

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – For the final time this season, Wake Forest (10-10, 2-6 ACC) will host a pair of home matches over the weekend. First, No. 42 Notre Dame (14-7, 4-6 ACC) comes to town on Friday afternoon. The Deacs will be looking for revenge after falling to the Irish in a pair of tightly contested matches last season, including a loss in the third round of the ACC Championships.

On April 5, Easter Sunday will double as Senior & Graduates Day as the Deacs welcome Louisville (9-9, 1-9 ACC). Wake Forest has dominated Louisville recently; the Deacs are undefeated (11-0) against the Cardinals since they joined the ACC in 2014. Nevena Carton, the lone senior for the Old Gold & Black, will be recognized.

Wake Forest remains in the ITA's top 75, coming in at No. 68 this week. The Demon Deacons are one of 12 ACC teams ranked. This is an important weekend of conference play for the Deacs. At 2-6 in the league, they currently sit in 12th (out of 17) in the ACC. Four matches remain, and with a positive record in them, the Deacs have a chance to break into the top half of the standings entering the 2026 ACC Championships.

Senior & Graduates Day

Nevena Carton will be honored on Sunday ahead of the Louisville match. She has accumulated more than 100 wins in her time as a Demon Deacon and enters the weekend on a three-match winning streak in both singles and doubles. During that win streak, she has beaten two ranked singles players and two ranked doubles pairs with partner Kady Tannenbaum. The Deacs' No. 1 is a combined 18-13 this season.

Super Sankavi

Junior Sankavi Gownder is 13-1 in singles matches this season. At .928, her win percentage is currently the highest in program history. Gownder won both of her matches last weekend in straight sets. Fellow Texan, Evie Oxford, is right behind her at 14-2, good for a .875 win percentage this year.

Home Sweet Home

Wake Forest has a chance to win double-digit matches at home for the first time since 2023. The Deacs enter the weekend 9-4 in Winston-Salem this season.

The Matches

Friday, April 3 – Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame– 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 5 – Wake Forest vs. Louisville – 12 p.m.

You can watch both matches here.

Series History

Friday, April 3 vs. Notre Dame (14-7, 4-6 ACC).

Notre Dame leads the all-time series, 19-16

Last meeting: 2025, 4-2 loss (neutral)

Current streak: Notre Dame W 2

Sunday, April 5 vs. Louisville (9-9, 1-9 ACC)

Wake Forest leads the all-time series, 11-1

Last meeting: 2025, 5-1 win (away)

Current streak: Wake Forest W 11

Last Time Out

Wake Forest went 2-1 in doubles to claim the early point last Sunday versus Boston College. Nevena Carton and Kady Tannenbaum won their third consecutive doubles match, defeating Natalie Eordekian and Seren Agar 6-2. Evie Oxford and Sankavi Gownder took care of business in second doubles, and the Deacs were in the drivers' seat entering the singles session.

Oxford, playing up in second singles for the first time this season, made quick work of Agar to put the Deacs up two. Her doubles partner, Gownder, added to the Wake Forest lead with a dominant 6-3, 6-3 victory over Leyden Games.

Tannenbaum capped off a fantastic day with a straight-set win in fifth singles over Boston College's Nadi Barteck. After an arduous battle, the junior was able to pull out a pair of tiebreak victories over Barteck to seal the match for the Deacs. Tannenbaum won three of her four matches (doubles and singles) over the course of the weekend.

Up Next

Next weekend, Wake Forest will head north for their final ACC matches of the season. The Deacs will head to Charlottesville to take on No. 9 Virginia (15-4, 8-0 ACC) on Friday, April 10, before capping off the season at Virginia Tech (4-12, 1-7 ACC) two days later.

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