Three Cavaliers Earn Invitations to the NCAA Individual Championships
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Three members of the Virginia women’s tennis team have earned invitations to compete in the NCAA Individuals Championships at Oklahoma State University’s Greenwood Tennis Center May 20-25 in Stillwater, Okla.
Senior Hibah Shaikh has earned an invitation to the singles championship, while juniors Elaine Chervinsky and Mélodie Collard will play in the doubles draw.
The NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Subcommittee selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Championships.
Sophomore Annabelle Xu is the fifth alternate for the singles draw, and Shaikh and grad student Natasha Subhash are the 10th alternates for doubles.
This is Shaikh’s first time playing in the singles championship. She competed in doubles in her sophomore year. This is Collard’s second time playing in the doubles draw after advancing to the semifinals last season. This is Chervinsky’s first time playing in the doubles championship. She competed in singles during her freshman season.
Match-ups and the complete singles and doubles brackets will be announced the day before the start of the tournament.
All matches shall be the best of three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, with a minimum of four matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.