MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee women's tennis team has earned the No. 6 seed in the Horizon League Championships and will face No. 3 Oakland Friday, April 25 at the University of Michigan's Varsity Tennis Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, set for a start time of 10 a.m. CT.

The Panthers (7-16, 1-5 Horizon League) and Golden Grizzlies (7-10, 4-2 Horizon League) last played March 29, where the Grizz pulled out a drama-filled doubles point to grab the early lead and did just enough to escape with the 4-3 victory after the home side battled valiantly throughout singles play all afternoon.
 
Milwaukee is now 13-6 all-time against Oakland (1-0 in postseason), with the decision this season breaking what was a six-match MKE win streak.
 
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The 2025 Horizon League Tennis Championships begin on Friday, April 25 at the University of Michigan's Varsity Tennis Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The University of Michigan Varsity Tennis Center is located on a 22-acre parcel of land on South State Street just south of the University of Michigan Golf Course. Completed in 1997, the $6 million indoor and outdoor complex provides the Wolverine tennis programs with a state-of-the-art on-campus training and competition site that is an excellent recruiting tool, and a premier and nationally competitive facility to nurture Michigan tennis players for many more decades to come.
 
The indoor facility -- named the Preston Robert Tisch Tennis Building after the late New York Giants owner and a prime contributor to the facility -- accommodates eight indoor courts. Each court is located 20 feet apart with 24 feet from baseline to curtain. The clean lines of the reflective ceiling and the uniformity of the lighting are textbook examples of indoor court lighting. Using 16 lights per court, the facility lighting produces an average of 165 foot-candles, more than average to host television coverage. These characteristics were key in earning the indoor courts the prestigious "Court of the Year Award" in 2000 presented by Tennis Industry magazine. The indoor building also contains coaches' offices, meeting rooms, training and locker facilities for the teams, and a museum portraying the storied history of Michigan tennis.
 
The outdoor facility is named after William Clay Ford, a Michigan alumnus and owner/president of the NFL's Detroit Lions, who helped begin the fundraising campaign for the facility with a $1 million donation. The outdoor facility consists of 12 championship caliber courts with seating for 600 spectators.
The facility has served as the host site for some of the most prestigious intercollegiate events, including the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships (2003-04), the Wilson/ITA Midwest Regional men's (2004-05, 2009) and women's (2000, 2010, 2013) championships, the women's ITA Kick-Off Weekend (2011-15) and the Big Ten Conference men's (1999, 2009) and women's (2000, 2011) tournaments. In addition to offering excellent facilities for national, regional and conference tournaments, this complex is used to host Michigan tennis camps and the state high school boys and girls championships.

Varsity Tennis Center 2250 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
OAKLAND: The Golden Grizzlies are coming off a season in which they went 5-14 overall and 1-6 in Horizon League action. The team was ranked No. 4 in the league preseason poll and is led by second-year head coach David Brown, who had served as a coach for adults and junior athletes at the Peachtree Tennis Club in Clinton Township since August 2021.
 
The team went 7-10 so far in 2025, closing out the slate with losses in its final two matchups, falling by 6-1 scores to both Youngstown State April 18 and Cleveland State April 19. The OU website does not list any current statistics from the 2024-25 campaign.
 
HORIZON HISTORY
The Panthers have claimed one regular-season Horizon League Championship in program history which came in 2013-14, going 7-1 that spring.
 
The team is 12-35 in the Horizon League Championship all-time, but did go 2-1 three years ago in reaching the championship match for the first time in program history. The team lost in the first round to Northern Kentucky a year ago.
 
UP NEXT
The winner between the Panthers and Golden Grizzlies will take on second-seeded Youngstown State who finished 5-1 in league play. Semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. CT.