Collegiate tennis is again south of the border!
The autumn a part of the NCAA tennis schedule is all about tournaments, so the format extra carefully resembles the skilled circuit with gamers going from place to position, competing in normal knockout attracts.
Let’s meet up with the newest information from Canadians competing within the NCAA.
Regional Championships
Among the many tournaments on the calendar are the regional championships, which is the place the Canadians in NCAA noticed a few of their finest outcomes.
Mélodie Collard of the College of Virginia had the strongest exhibiting on the DI Girls’s Atlantic Regional Championships, profitable the doubles title with Elaine Chervinsky. The pair misplaced simply 19 video games in 5 matches, together with an 8-0 bagel within the quarter-finals (doubles matches within the pre-semifinal rounds have been only a single set, first to eight video games), and capped off their run with a 6-4, 6-1 over their teammates at Virginia, second seeds Margaret Navarro and Sara Ziodato, within the ultimate.
Annabelle Xu, additionally of Virginia, was the highest seed within the singles and reached the semis, the place she misplaced to eighth seed Ozlem Uslu of Virginia Tech.
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Throughout the continent on the DI Northwest Regional Championships, a pair of Canadians on the College of Washington went on spectacular runs.
Reece Carter, who entered the 2024-2025 season ranked No. 60 in ladies’s singles, reached the semifinals. She did it the arduous approach, profitable three-setters in her second-round, third-round, and quarter-finals matches, with two of these wins coming from a set down. She lastly ran out of gasoline within the ultimate 4 in opposition to high seed Connie Ma of Stanford.
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In doubles, Carter teamed up with fellow Canadian Alexia Jacobs to type the top-seeded tandem. They cruised into the semifinals with the lack of simply six video games (in three professional units) earlier than falling 10-7 in a match tiebreak within the ultimate 4 to the fourth seeds.
All-American Championships
The primary main occasion on the calendar came about on the finish of September, the 2024 ITA All-American Championships.
Canada’s finest outcomes as soon as once more got here within the doubles, the place Jessica Alsola of the College of California, Berkeley, reached the semifinal with companion Mao Mushika. The pair upset the third seeds from Ohio State within the first spherical in straight units.
They picked up three extra wins, two in straight units, earlier than falling to Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle of UCLA.
Hance and Wagle have been Canadian slayers on the All-American championships as they took out Carter and Jacobs within the quarter-finals earlier than beating Alsola within the semis.
The College of Washington’s Canadian duo kicked off their event by upsetting the highest seeds from Oklahoma State within the first spherical after which snuck previous a crew from the College of South Carolina within the second spherical earlier than bowing out within the final eight.
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Collard and her companion Elaine Chervinsky have been the second seeds however misplaced in spherical two
Singles was not as profitable for the Canadians. Six have been in the principle draw however solely two, Collard and Xu, managed a match win. Each misplaced within the second spherical.
The spotlight on the lads’s facet got here courtesy of Jaden Weekes. Regardless of going out within the second spherical of singles, he really picked up six match wins on the occasion. The Kentucky Wildcat got here via prequalifying and qualifying with out dropping a set in 5 matches simply to get into the principle draw.
Weekes then rallied from a set all the way down to beat Pedro Rodenas, a 9-16 seed (seeds above eight aren’t given a particular quantity), of Duke earlier than lastly falling to Craig Corey of Florida State.
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