(April 11, 2025) THIS WEEK: The No. 57-ranked Washington State Tennis team (13-7 overall, 3-2 in WCC play) heads west to face Portland, Saturday, April 12. This marks the final road trip of the regular season for the Cougars. Match time in Portland is set for 10 a.m.
 
FOLLOW LIVE: Saturday's match in Portland will be streamed live HERE while live stats can be found HERE.
 
SCOUTING PORTLAND: The Pilots enter Saturday's match with a 7-8 overall record, 2-3 in West Coast Conference play. Portland is riding a two-match winning streak, defeating Santa Clara and Pacific in its last two outings. WSU leads the all-time series, 14-1.
 
COUGARS IN NATIONAL RANKINGS: In the latest ITA rankings, released April 8, WSU sits at No. 57 after reaching a season-high of No. 45 in late February. The Cougars' No. 1 doubles team of Eva Alvarez Sande and Maxine Murphy, who entered the rankings for the first time this season in late February at No. 88, skyrocketed up the charts to No. 34 nationally and enter the match at No. 44.
 
COUGARS TO PLAY IN WEST COAST CONFERENCE: For the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, the Cougars will be an affiliate member of the West Coast Conference. When conference realignment impacted the Pac-12 Conference following the 2023-24 season, Cougar Tennis was one of 10 WSU athletic programs to become WCC affiliate members. The membership status will be for two years until the Pac-12 resumes full-membership status beginning with the 2026-27 season.
 
LAST TIME OUT: WSU dropped a 4-1 decision at No. 23 Pepperdine.
 
NEXT UP: Following Saturday's match at Portland, the Cougars return home to face San Diego, Friday, April 18 at 11 a.m.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN: For the 2024-25 season, the Cougars have three freshmen to accompany the six returners. The roster consists of seniors Hania Abouelsaad and Elyse Tse, juniors Maxine Murphy, Eva Alvarez Sande, Yura Nakagawa, sophomore Martina Markov and freshman Chisato Kanemaki, Martina Puvill and Madhu Satishbabu.
 
COACH RAQUEL ATAWO: Raquel Atawo is in her fourth season as head coach of the Cougars after being named to the position July 2, 2021. Atawo arrived in Pullman having spent the 2021 season as the assistant coach at Auburn and prior to that, spent 15 years on the WTA Tour, where she reached No. 10 world ranking in doubles.
 
FOLLOW THE COUGARS: Keep up with Washington State tennis by following @WSUCougarTennis on Twitter, @wsucougartennis on Instagram, and Washington State Cougar Tennis on Facebook.