North Carolina State University Athletics
Women's Tennis to Compete in ITA Carolina Regionals
10/15/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
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RALEIGH, N.C.- The NC State women’s tennis team will make its first of two trips to Chapel Hill this fall when it competes at the ITA Carolina Regional tournament Oct. 16-20.
Earnshaw’s Input
“From a significance standpoint the ITA Regional is the most important event we will play this fall, but that being said this fall every match is of equal importance based on our goals.
“Several of our players are coming off quite a long training block and will face 3 tournaments in the next 4 weeks therefore it would certainly be nice to see that the hard work is paying off. Practice has been going well, the girls have been beating up on each other pretty good, now we need that to carry over into competition.”- Simon Earnshaw, head coach
Last Year at ITA Regionals
-The duo of Elisha Hande and Nicole Martinez advanced to the round of 16 in doubles play, defeating Campbell’s Karolina Chernava and Nell Gaigher, 8-0, in the round of 64 and South Carolina’s Katie Fosnacht and Natalie Looney, 8-2 in the round of 32.
-The No. 5 ranked Joelle Kissell advanced to the round of 32 in singles play, defeating College of Charleston’s Brooke McAmis, 6-1, 6-2.
Tournament Notables
-Eight players will represent the Wolfpack in the tournament- six in singles play four pairs in doubles play.
Wolfpack Singles:
Liza Fieldsend
Elisha Hande
Natalia Janowicz
Joanna Nalborska
Sophie Nelson
Tayla Stenta
Wolfpack Doubles:
Fieldsend/Nelson
Nalborska/Janowicz
Hande/Stenta
Capannolo/Zaytoun
-Five ACC programs will take part in the ITA Regionals; along with the Wolfpack, UNC, Duke, Wake Forest and Clemson will also compete in the tournament. This will be the first time this season NC State will face multiple ACC programs.
Day One Schedule
Play is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning with two rounds of qualifying singles, followed by two rounds of main draw doubles play at 3:00 p.m.
Last Time Out
-Four members represented the Pack at the Wake Forest Invitational Oct. 3-5. The doubles duo of Elisha Hande and Tayla Stenta won three consecutive matches to reach the championship round in their respective bracket.
-Stenta, Hande and Ashleigh Capannolo each won a singles match over the weekend tournament in their respective brackets.
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