On Sunday, the University of Rhode Island’s women’s tennis team opened their season by taking on Siena College and securing a 6-1 victory. URI was victorious in all six singles matches: fifth-year Nadia Rajan, second-year Nikki Fernando and second-year Ava Grnja took care of their singles opponents with Rajan and Grnja winning 6-4 in both…
The University of Rhode Island tennis team competed at the Brown Classic this past weekend, falling in all four matches. URI’s first match, the only one to be played at their home courts, ended in a 4-3 loss against the University of Connecticut. Fifth-year Nadia Rajan, fourth-year Valentina Cvackova and second-year Nikki Fernando picked up…
Rhode Island headed up to Cambridge on Friday for the International Tennis Association Northeast Regionals, highlighted by second-year Sophie Herrman, who reached the round of 32. Rhode Island was also represented by second-year Nikki Fernando, graduate student Nadia Rajan, and fourth-year Valentina Cvackova in the tournament. This bracket featured 96 of the top players in…
After seventeen months worth of planning to renovate the tennis courts at the University of Rhode Island, resurfacing is finally complete. While renovations were set to be finished in July of last year, delays due to the weather and limited amount of time to let the paint set prevented work from being completed for about…
Playing on the newly-renovated University of Rhode Island Tennis Complex for the first time in over a year, the URI women’s tennis team hosted four other schools at the URI Fall Invite on Sunday. Sunday’s action saw Rhode Island pick up 11 wins from 16 total singles matches, with each of the seven competing team…
The University of Rhode Island Women’s tennis team competed against several schools this past weekend in the International Tennis Hall of Fame Women’s Collegiate Invitational in Newport, RI. There were four doubles teams representing the Rhody Rams when they stepped onto the court on Friday to begin the first of three consecutive days of matches….
In the Spring of 2022, Val Villucci announced that she would be retiring as head coach of the University of Rhode Island women’s tennis team after 25 years at the helm across three different stints. This created something that URI had not seen from the tennis program in many years: a vacancy. Fast forward to…
First-year Nikki Fernando paired with first-year Priyanka Shanker for URI’s only win of the afternoon – a 6-4 doubles victory. Photo Courtesy of: gorhody.com This past Saturday The University of Rhode Island’s women’s tennis team fought to defend their home court in a regular season finale matchup vs. the University of Massachusetts. Umass would go…
Villucci began coaching at URI in 1993. Photo Courtesy of: gorhody.com In 1975, before the introduction of Title IX, Cranston High School East did not have a girls tennis team. Determined to continue playing the sport she had grown to love from an early age, a young Val Villucci decided this would not stop her….
Third-year Valentina Cvackcova combined with first-year Sophie Herrman for URI’s only win of the day on Saturday. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com The University of Rhode Island women’s tennis team closed out their spring 2023 non-conference slate in Newport on Sunday, falling to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in a 4-0 shutout loss, their 13th loss…