Women's tennis prepares for Wilson/ITA Regional Championships
10/18/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Oct. 18, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas - The TCU women's tennis team will compete at the 2007 Wilson/ITA Regional Championships in Lubbock, Texas, beginning Friday, Oct. 19 thru Tuesday, Oct. 23.
Twenty regional teams will compete in the event, including Baylor, Houston, Lamar, LSU, Louisiana-Lafayette, North Texas, Rice, Sam Houston State, SMU, Stephen F. Austin, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, TCU, Texas State, Texas Tech, Texas-Arlington, Texas-El Paso, Texas-Pan American, and Texas-San Antonio.
The tournament consists of a 64-player singles qualifying draw, a 64-player singles main draw and a 64-team doubles draw. The singles qualifying draw and doubles draw will begin on Friday, followed by singles main draw action beginning at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Macall Harkins, Idunn Hertzberg, Nina Munch-Soegaard, Kewa Nichols and Anna Sydorska will all compete in the singles main draw for the Horned Frogs. Harkins, Sydorska and Munch-Soegaard are seeded No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5, respectively.
TCU freshman Maria Babanova will begin in the singles qualifying draw on Friday as the No. 3 seed. The doubles teams of Harkins and Sydorska, Hertzberg and Andrea Morgado, and Munch-Soegaard and Nichols will also begin play on Friday. The duo of Harkins and Sydorska is the top seed in the draw.
TCU highlighted the Wilson/ITA Regional Championships last year in Fort Worth, as the tandem of Ana Cetnik and Sydorska captured the doubles title. Cetnik also won the singles consolation championship.
For complete results of this weekend's action, visit www.gofrogs.com.
Friday's Schedule
Singles Qualifying Draw (Round of 64)
No. 3 Maria Babanova (TCU) vs. Megan Pritchard (UTEP)
Doubles Main Draw (Round of 64)
No. 1 Harkins/Sydorska (TCU) - bye
Hertzberg/Morgado (TCU) vs. Starratt/Wasson (Houston)
Munch-Soegaard/Nichols (TCU) vs. Franca/Moreton (North Texas)
Saturday's Schedule
Singles Main Draw (Round of 64)
No. 3 Macall Harkins (TCU) vs. Zuzana Chmelarova (Baylor)
No. 4 Anna Sydorska (TCU) vs. qualifier
No. 5 Nina Munch-Soegaard (TCU) vs. Sarah Lancaster (Texas)
Idunn Hertzberg (TCU) vs. Pavi Francis (SMU)
Kewa Nichols (TCU) vs. Nas Dubova (LSU)
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