UGA Women's Tennis Wins 3rd National Title | Slams A&M in NCAA Finals
WACO — The No. 1 Georgia women's tennis team (29-3, 13-2 SEC) secured its third NCAA National Championship after producing a dominant 4-0 sweep over No. 2 Texas A&M (30-4, 14-1 SEC) in the NCAA title match at the Hurd Tennis Center on Sunday.
Fast Facts
Georgia earns its third NCAA national championship and first since 2000, bringing in the program's eighth overall national title (five USTA/ITA national titles).
Head coach Drake Bernstein becomes the fastest head coach in program history to win an NCAA, ITA, SEC Tournament and SEC regular season title in program history (62 matches coached through two seasons).
Senior Dasha Vidmanova became the third women's tennis player to win an NCAA team, singles and doubles national championship during her collegiate career.
Georgia finishes the season undefeated in tournament-style competition this spring, producing a 13-0 record between winning the 2025 ITA National Team Indoor Championships (four wins), the 2025 SEC Tournament (three wins) and the NCAA Tournament (six wins).
The Bulldogs earned their 19th sweep of the season and fifth of the NCAA Tournament, outscoring opponents 24-1 through six rounds while also winning seven of nine postseason matches via sweep.
Georgia improves to 23-6 all-time against Texas A&M, avenging an NCAA Championship loss in the 2024 title match. The Bulldogs are now 3-1 this season against the Aggies, earning all three wins in a tournament final (ITA National Team Indoors, SEC Tournament and NCAA Championships).
The Bulldogs opened the match winning doubles point for the 28th time this season. On court two, the tandem of #68 Guillermina Grant and Anastasiia Lopata struck first as they cruised past Daria Smetannikov and Lexington Reed, 6-2. With courts one and three racing for the clinch, the duo of Aysegul Mert and Hayden Mulberry came through late to hold off Nicole Khirin and Lucciana Perez for a 7-5 victory to put the Bulldogs on the board first.
In singles, the battle of the top 2 ITA ranked singles players came to a result as #2 Dasha Vidmanova was stellar on the day against #1 Mary Stoiana, earning a 6-4, 6-4 victory in straight sets to double Georgia's lead at 2-0.
Despite dropping a first set, #17 Lopata bounced back in tremendous fashion to flip the match and secure a 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over #13 Nicole Khirin to put the Bulldogs one point away from a title.
With battle across all four remaining courts in play, Sofia Rojas delivered the finishing blow to Texas A&M's comeback bid as she also came back from a set down to defeat Reed, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, on court six for the sweep and the title-clinching victory.