They play their home matches in Linder Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida, campus, and are currently led by head coach Roland Thornqvist.

Led by their fourth-year coach, Andy Brandi, the Florida Gators women's tennis team made its first appearance in the NCAA championship tournament finals in Los Angeles, California in 1988.

[5] The Lady Gators hosted the NCAA national championship tournament on their home courts at Linder Stadium in Gainesville for the first time in 1990.

[3][6] Led by their top singles players, freshman Andrea Farley and junior Nicole Arendt,[6] the second-seeded Gators battled to the championship finals before falling to the top-seeded Stanford Cardinal women, five matches to one.

[3][7] Led by star freshman Lisa Raymond, the Gators beat the Texas Longhorns women's tennis team five matches to three.

[7] In 1995, for the fourth time in eight seasons, the Lady Gators reached the championship finals of the NCAA tournament, held in Malibu, California.

[8] The top-seeded Gators reached the championship finals of the NCAA tournament for the third straight year in 1997, before falling to the Stanford Cardinal, five matches to one, in Palo Alto.

[10] At the 1999 NCAA tournament held in Gaiensville, the top-seeded Gators women's tennis team returned to the championship finals for the fifth consecutive season, but lost to its national rival, the Stanford Cardinal, five matches to two, for the fourth time since 1988.

During Brandi's seventeen-year tenure, three individual Gators won four NCAA singles championships: Shaun Stafford in 1988; Lisa Raymond in 1992 and 1993; and Jill Craybas in 1996.

[11] The Cardinal women had previously beaten the Gators to win the NCAA team championships in the two preceding seasons.