CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 15 Virginia women’s tennis team is set to compete in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship beginning this weekend in Evanston, Ill.
ITA Indoors is a five day tournament comprised of 16 of the top women's teams in the country competing for an indoor national championship. Preliminary and consolation matches are held Friday through Sunday (Feb. 6-8) in Evanston and Champaign, Ill. The semifinals will be played on Monday, Feb. 9, and the championship match will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at the Combe Tennis Center in Evanston.
The Cavaliers (6-2) open play on Friday (Feb. 6) against No. 1 Georgia (1-1) at 1 p.m.
Virginia will then face either No. 14 Tennessee or No. 5 LSU on Saturday.
VIRGINIA AT ITA INDOORS
- The Cavaliers punched their ticket to ITA Indoors by picking up a 4-0 win over Rice and a 4-0 victory over USC at ITA Kickoff Weekend matches in Charlottesville in January.
- The Cavaliers are looking for their first ITA National Team Indoor Championship.
- This is UVA’s 14th appearance in the tournament.
- Last season, No. 5 Virginia went 2-1 in the tournament, falling in the semifinals to No. 1 Georgia after notching wins over No. 13 Tennessee in the round of 16 and No. 8 North Carolina in the quarterfinals.
VIRGINIA NOTES
- The Cavaliers are ranked No. 15 in the latest ITA Team Rankings.
- Virginia enters the tournament coming off a mixed weekend. The Cavaliers picked up a 4-2 win over No. 13 Michigan on Friday (Jan. 30), then fell 4-0 at No. 10 Ohio State on Sunday (Feb. 1).
- The Cavaliers have five players appearing in the latest ITA singles rankings: senior Annabelle Xu at 26, junior Vivian Yang at 34, sophomore Isabelle Lacy at 69, sophomore Martina Genis Salas at 75 and freshman Kaitlyn Rolls making her rankings debut at 108.
- Virginia also has three ranked doubles pairings: fifth year Melodie Collard and Yang at four, Xu and Genis Salas at 21 and freshman Blair Gill and Rolls at 90.
- No. 69 Lacy leads the team with a perfect 6-0 mark in singles dual match play.
- No. 4 Collard and Yang lead the team's doubles effort with a 15-4 record.
