GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida women’s tennis team has officially announced their 2023-24 slate with a challenging schedule that brings seven opponents to the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex in the spring.
The Spring portion of the schedule includes matches against 11 teams that qualified for the 2023 NCAA Tournament (Florida State Michigan, Pepperdine, LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina). Three of those teams made it to the 2023 championship quarterfinals (Michigan, Georgia, and Texas A&M), with Georgia advancing to the semi-finals.
The Gators will officially kick off the season on Friday, September 15, in Chapel Hill at the Kitty Harrison Invitational. The three-day tournament is traditionally an invite-only event featuring the top players in the nation from the year prior. Other events in the September slate for Florida include the Lubbock 15K (Sept. 18), the Bedford Cup (TBD), and the ITA-All Americans Pre-Qualifying (Sept. 30).
The ITA All-Americans will continue into October with the Qualifying and Main Draw spanning from October 2 to October 8 in Cary, North Carolina. The Gators will make one more stop in South Carolina for the Florence 25K (Oct. 9) before hosting the ITA Regional Championships at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex (Oct. 19). The final leg of the October slate will be at the Norman 15K (Oct. 30), in Oklahoma.
To start November, Florida will travel to San Diego for the ITA National Fall Championships (Nov. 1), followed by an in-state trip to Jacksonville for the UNF Invitational (Nov. 11). With no tournaments in December, the Gators will return to road competition in January with the Freeman Memorial in Las Vegas, before hosting the Baylor Bears in Gainesville on January 21. For the remainder of January, Florida will host the ITA Kickoff Weekend (Jan. 27).
The Spring portion of the schedule includes matches against 11 teams that qualified for the 2023 NCAA Tournament (Florida State Michigan, Pepperdine, LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina). Three of those teams made it to the 2023 championship quarterfinals (Michigan, Georgia, and Texas A&M), with Georgia advancing to the semi-finals.
The Gators will officially kick off the season on Friday, September 15, in Chapel Hill at the Kitty Harrison Invitational. The three-day tournament is traditionally an invite-only event featuring the top players in the nation from the year prior. Other events in the September slate for Florida include the Lubbock 15K (Sept. 18), the Bedford Cup (TBD), and the ITA-All Americans Pre-Qualifying (Sept. 30).
The ITA All-Americans will continue into October with the Qualifying and Main Draw spanning from October 2 to October 8 in Cary, North Carolina. The Gators will make one more stop in South Carolina for the Florence 25K (Oct. 9) before hosting the ITA Regional Championships at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex (Oct. 19). The final leg of the October slate will be at the Norman 15K (Oct. 30), in Oklahoma.
To start November, Florida will travel to San Diego for the ITA National Fall Championships (Nov. 1), followed by an in-state trip to Jacksonville for the UNF Invitational (Nov. 11). With no tournaments in December, the Gators will return to road competition in January with the Freeman Memorial in Las Vegas, before hosting the Baylor Bears in Gainesville on January 21. For the remainder of January, Florida will host the ITA Kickoff Weekend (Jan. 27).
February will mark the beginning of spring tennis with an initial matchup against rival Florida State on February 3. The Gators will then head to Ann Arbor to face the Michigan Wolverines (Feb. 6). Continuing on the road slate, the team will travel to Seattle for ITA National Indoors (Feb. 9), and head to southeast Orlando to play Pepperdine on February 24.
A two-match road trip will start SEC play for the Gators with contests against LSU (Mar. 1), and Texas A&M (Mar. 3). Florida will then have a four-match home stretch hosting: Georgia (Mar. 8), Tennessee (Mar. 10), Auburn (Mar. 15), and…
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