- No. 7 seed Stanford (14-7, 7-5 ACC) is in Cary, N.C. for its first ACC Championship, which begins Thursday at 9:30 a.m. PT against the winner of 10th-seeded Miami (9-12, 4-8 ACC) and 15th-seeded Virginia Tech (13-11, 2-10 ACC).
- The Cardinal picked up road victories over both schools in late March, beating the Hokies 4-2 on March 21 and the Hurricanes 4-3 on March 28.
- The Cardinal is No. 26 in the latest ITA coaches' poll released on April 15, while Miami is No. 56 and Virginia Tech is No. 67. If the Cardinal was to prevail, a quarterfinal with No. 2 seed North Carolina would await on Friday.
- Last season, Stanford swept California in Ojai, Calif. to win the final Pac-12 Tournament, its sixth championship in seven tries.
- The final Pac-12 event featured the Cardinal's third consecutive title. Beginning in 2017, the league hosted seven team tournaments and Stanford won six (no event in 2020). The Cardinal finished 19-1 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament.
- Stanford has three featured in the latest ITA singles rankings from April 15 in Valerie Glozman (#6), Connie Ma (#11) and Caroline Driscoll (#84). In doubles, Glozman and Ma are ranked a season-high 20th, while Driscoll and Valencia Xu are 86th.
- Glozman is the highest-ranked underclassman in the country.
- Stanford is the only school in the country with two, top-15 singles players.
- Driscoll is featured for the second consecutive week. She vaulted into the singles rankings for the first time this season following a straight-set victory over Duke's then-No. 20 Emma Jackson on April 5.
- Glozman was named ACC Freshman of the Week for a league-high third time on April 15 following a pair of road singles victories last weekend in North Carolina. She beat Wake Forest’s Anna Zhang 6-2, 7-6 (4) and NC State’s then-No. 89 Maddy Zampardo 7-5, 6-2 to finish up her debut regular season at Stanford.
- Glozman heads into the ACC Championship with a 28-5 overall record, a 15-3 mark this spring, and an 11-1 record against ACC opponents. She’s 13-5 against nationally-ranked foes and has won ACC Freshman of the Week honors in three of the past six weeks.
- Glozman and Ma also picked up their second ACC Doubles Team of the Week award after a perfect weekend in Winston-Salem and Raleigh. The duo beat the Demon Deacons Nevena Carton and Kady Tannenbaum 6-4 on Friday and followed that up with a big 6-3 win over the nation’s then-No. 3 pair from NC State, Gabriella Broadfoot and Maddy Zampardo.
- Glozman and Ma are 21-7 this season, 14-6 in duals, 8-4 against ACC opponents and 8-6 against ranked doubles pairs.
- Ma has been just as dominant in singles this spring with a 13-1 record. She's 25-5 overall this year, including 11-4 against nationally-ranked opponents.
- On January 8, the Cardinal announced the rare (for Stanford) midseason transfer in Caroline Driscoll. The two-time All-Summit League performer at Denver has a career singles record of 66-21, including 43-13 in duals, and is 13-3 this season.
- Moving up to court 3 singles, she picked up her first ranked win of the year on April 5 and another in the regular-season finale at NC State on Sunday, dispatching then-No. 109 Gabriella Broadfoot 6-2, 6-4.
- A late-season entrant into Stanford's lineup is two-time All-American Alexandra Yepifanova. The senior played her first match for the Cardinal in nearly 11 months last Friday at Wake Forest on court 5 after undergoing offseason surgery followed by a quarter abroad.
- Stanford's fall was highlighted by All-America performances from Glozman and Ma at the NCAA Individual Championships in Waco. This was the first year of a two-year pilot program in which the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Individual Championships are held in the fall instead of the spring.
- Glozman, seeded fifth, made a run to the quarterfinals and finished the fall with a 13-2 record, including a 7-2 mark against ranked opponents.
- The No. 6 seed, Ma advanced to the Round of 16, was 12-4 in the fall, and earned singles All-America status for the third time in her career.
- With the switch in schedule for the individual championships, All-America honors are given to those advancing to the Round of 16 at the NCAA Singles Championship in November or finishing in the Top 20 of the final ITA Singles rankings in May.
- Stanford has won 121 of its last 130 matches on The Farm, 113 of those at Taube Family Tennis Stadium, which was demolished at the conclusion of last season. Construction is ongoing on a re-imagined facility with 12 outdoor courts slated to open in 2026.
- On Feb. 4, Stanford announced its latest signing class of prep standouts Alyssa Ahn, Monika Ekstrand and Tianmei Wang.
- All three are blue-chip recruits according to the Tennis Recruiting Network and among the nation’s top five high school seniors that will enroll on college campuses this fall.
- Stanford recruiting class is ranked No. 1 nationally.
- While no stranger to The Farm, Stanford is in its first season with Frankie Brennan as the program’s Peter and Helen Bing Director of Women's Tennis. The third-generation coach was hired to replace the legendary Lele Forood on Sept. 11. Forood announced she was stepping down following 24 seasons and 10 NCAA titles as head coach on Aug. 20.
- Brennan has been on staff at Stanford for 29 seasons and a part of 12 of Stanford’s record 20 NCAA championships. The Cardinal has gone 714-78 during his tenure, including a 14-7 mark has head coach.
- On Sept. 19, Brennan hired Stanford alumna Janice Shin as his assistant coach. A two-time NCAA team champion during her playing career from 2018-21, Shin was a key contributor on Stanford’s 2018 and 2019 NCAA title teams, going a perfect 8-0 in postseason matches and earning NCAA All-Tournament Team recognition at No. 5 singles both years.
Cardinal in Cary for ACC Championship
Stanford starts Thursday at 9:30 a.m. PT against the winner of Miami and Virginia Tech