Michigan Heads to Minnesota, Hosts Purdue

» Michigan will wrap up an 11-match road swing this weekend when it heads to Minnesota on Friday (March 23) before the Wolverines return home to host Purdue on Sunday (March 25). U-M's last match at home was Feb. 3.
» U-M went 2-0 last weekend, as they knocked off Iowa and Nebraska on the road to start Big Ten action.
» Junior Kate Fahey ran her singles win streak to 12 after a pair of straight-sets wins last weekend. She is 9-0 at No. 1 this season.

THIS WEEK
Friday, March 23 -- at Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.), 2 p.m. CDT | Live scoring/video
Sunday, March 25 -- vs. Purdue (Varsity Tennis Center), noon | Live scoring/video

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The University of Michigan women's tennis team (6-8, 2-0 B1G) wraps up an 11-match road swing on Friday (March 23), when they travel to Minnesota to take on the Gophers (11-6, 3-0 B1G) at 2 p.m. CT. U-M returns home to the Varsity Tennis Center on Sunday (March 25) to host Purdue (7-7, 0-2 B1G) at noon. Admission to all matches at the VTC is free.

WOLVERINE BITES

• Michigan snapped a five-match skid last weekend, when the Wolverines knocked off Iowa (6-1, March 16) and Nebraska (4-3, March 18) to start Big Ten play with a 2-0 record. U-M has won 14 consecutive Big Ten regular-season matches.

• U-M will wrap up an 11-match road swing this weekend as it travels to Minnesota on Friday (March 23). The Wolverines will host Purdue on Sunday (March 25), their first match at the Varsity Tennis Center since Feb. 3.

• Minnesota (11-6, 3-0 B1G) has won two straight after a 6-1 win over Maryland and a 7-0 shutout of Rutgers in its last action. U-M leads the all-time series against Minnesota, 30-15, and has won 16 straight after last year's 6-1 win at the VTC.

• Purdue (7-7, 0-2 B1G) will host Wisconsin on Friday (March 23) before coming to Ann Arbor. Michigan leads the all-time series against the Boilers, 40-12. The Maize and Blue came away with a 5-2 win in West Lafayette last season.

• Head coach Ronni Bernstein is closing in on career victory No. 400, as she will enter this weekend with 394 victories. Bernstein, who is in her 11th season at Michigan, is 229-69 (.768) in Ann Arbor.

• Junior Kate Fahey has continued to shine at the top of Michigan's singles lineup with a 9-0 mark at the No. 1 spot. She has won 12 straight matches to improve her overall singles mark to 18-5 and has not lost since the calendar flipped to 2018. Fahey has 85 career singles wins to tie her for 14th all-time at Michigan. Her .805 winning percentage is tops at U-M and is the only Wolverine to win at least 80 percent of their singles matches.

• Sophomore Chiara Lommer won a pair of matches in Michigan's last weekend action to move her singles record to 21-9 as the first Wolverine to hit the 20-win mark.

• As part of Black History Month, junior Brienne Minor was profiled by The Tennis Channel after she won last year's NCAA singles title. Watch the video here.

• In the latest (March 20) singles rankings, Kate Fahey comes in at No. 22 and Chiara Lommer is at No. 93. The doubles pair of Brienne Minor and Mira Ruder-Hook is in the doubles rankings for the third straight week with a No. 53 ranking.

NCAA RULES
Each team match will be a contest for the best of seven team points. Doubles action will begin immediately with no warmup, so fans are encouraged to arrive on time for matches. In addition, each doubles match will be one set to six, with a tiebreaker occurring at 6-all. The team that wins two-of-three matches will secure the doubles point. Following a five-minute intermission, singles action will begin with each match worth one point towards the team score. There will be no-ad scoring in both singles and doubles action. In addition, there is to be no noise made between first and second serves this season as part of new ITA sportsmanship guidelines.