The Florida Gators are set to play in a series of road tournaments this fall and will host 13 times throughout the season. The challenging slate comes to the Gators after a significant run in the 2022-23 postseason.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COMMUNICATIONS
MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2023
BY: Meg Christenson
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 15th, 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 home matches 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 Alabama (Mar. 17). The Gators will get back on the road and head to Arkansas (Mar. 22), and Missouri (Mar. 24). Closing out the month of March, Florida will see two more opponents at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex: Mississippi State (Mar. 29), and Ole Miss (Mar. 31).
Florida will start April by traveling to Vanderbilt (Apr. 5) and Kentucky (Apr. 7) before closing conference play at home on April 12 against South Carolina. The SEC Tournament will be hosted by Georgia at the end of April with official dates announced at a later date.
The Florida women’s tennis program qualified for its 35th-straight NCAA Tennis Championships in 2023 and hosted the tournament’s first and second rounds for the 22nd time in a possible 23 chances since the field expanded to 64 in 1999. The Gators have claimed seven NCAA National Championships, the second-most in the history of the sport.
Women’s Tennis 2022-23 Schedule
DATE
OPPONENT
LOCATION
SEPTEMBER
Fri. 15 – Sun. 17
Kitty Harrison Invitational
Chapel Hill, NC
Mon. 18‐Sun. 24
Lubbock 15K
Lubbock, TX
TBA
Bedford Cup
Sat. 30‐Sun. Oct. 1
ITA All-Americans Pre-Qualifying
Cary, NC
OCTOBER
Mon. 2 – Tues. 3
ITA All-Americans Qualifying
Cary, NC
Wed. 4 – Sun. 8
ITA All-Americans Main Draw
Cary, NC
Mon. 9 – Sun. 15
Florence 25K
Florence, SC
Thurs. 19 – Mon. 23
ITA Regional Championships
Gainesville, FL
Mon. 30 – Sun. Nov. 5
Norman 15K
Norman, OK
NOVEMBER
Wed. 1 – Sun. 5
ITA National Fall Championships
San Diego, CA
Sat. 11 – Sun. 12
UNF Invitational
Jacksonville, FL
JANUARY
Thurs. 11 – Mon. 15
Freeman Memorial
Las Vegas, NV
Sun. 21
Baylor
Gainesville, FL
Sat. 27 – Sun. 28
ITA Kickoff Weekend
Gainesville, FL
FEBRUARY
Sat. 3
FSU
Lake Nona, FL
Tue. 6
Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Fri. 9 – Mon. 12
ITA National Indoors
Seattle, WA
Sat. 24
Pepperdine
MARCH
Fri. 1
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA
Sun. 3
Texas A&M
College Station, TX
Fri. 8
Georgia
Gainesville, FL
Sun. 10
Tennessee
Gainesville, FL
Fri. 15
Auburn
Gainesville, FL
Sun. 17
Alabama
Gainesville, FL
Fri. 22
Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Sun. 24
Missouri
Columbia, MO
Fri. 29
Mississippi State
Gainesville, FL
Sun. 31
Ole Miss
Gainesville, FL
APRIL
Fri. 5
Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN
Sun. 7
Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Fri. 12
South Carolina
Gainesville, FL
TBA
SEC Tournament
Athens, GA
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