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2018 WAC WOMEN'S TENNIS TOURNAMENT BRACKET RELEASED
The Western Athletic Conference has announced the bracket for the 2018 WAC Women's Tennis Tournament on April 27-29 at the Mesa Tennis Center in Mesa, Ariz.
UT Rio Grande Valley enters the tournament as the top seed this year after finishing first in the regular season standings with a perfect 5-0 record. This is the first time they are going into the tournament as the first seed and will be enjoying the first round bye before they take on the winner between the No. 4 and No. 5 seed.
Kansas City is joining UT Rio Grande Valley with a ticket straight to the semifinals as the No. 2 seed going into the tournament. Kansas City finished conference play with a 4-1 record. They will have to wait until the quarterfinal match up between seeds No. 3 and No. 6 finishes before they know who they will be playing.
Taking the third seed position is NM State as they finished the season with a 2-3 conference record and will be competing April 27th in the quarterfinals.
As the host institution, Grand Canyon enters the tournament as the fourth seed with a conference record of 2-3 and will take on the fifth seeded Chicago State (1-4) in the first match in the quarterfinals that Friday.
Rounding out the seeding is Seattle U who went 1-4 in the two conference clusters and will take on NM State in the second match of the quarterfinals.
The tournament begins Friday, April 27th with both of the first round matches beginning at 9 a.m. local time. Admission and parking is free for this event.
2018 WAC Women's Tennis Tournament
Mesa Tennis Center | Mesa, Ariz
Friday, April 27
Match One: No. 4 Grand Canyon vs. No. 5 Chicago State, 9 a.m.
Match Two: No. 3 NM State vs. No. 6 Seattle U, 9 a.m.
Saturday, April 28
Match Three: No. 1 UT Rio Grande Valley vs. Winner Match One, 9 a.m.
Match Four: No. 2 Kansas City vs. Winner Match Two, 9 a.m.
Sunday, April 29
Match Five: Winner Match Three vs. Winner Match Four, 9 a.m.
Tournament Location Change (AGAIN)
The tournament will still be hosted by Grand Canyon, but it will be held at the Mesa Tennis Center instead of competing at the Phoenix Tennis Center.
Players of the Week- April 2-8
Kansas City's singles players Airam Castellano and Aliona Ladutska, and Seattle U's doubles team Matt Alderson and Colton Weeldreyer and Grand Canyon's doubles team Lana Rinaldi and Emilia Occhipinti have been named the Western Athletic Conference Tennis Players of the Week, respectively, for April 2-8.
Castellano, a senior from Gran Canaria, Spain, extended his six match winning streak with a victory over Drake's top flight opponent this past weekend. With the 7-6, 6-3 win, Castellano also extended his school record with 75 career singles win.
Ladutska, a senior from Minsk, Belarus, pushed her winning streak to nine straight with a 2-0 performance over the weekend. She took down the top flight from Grand Canyon 6-2, 6-4 before defeating NM State's No. 1 7-5, 6-2. Ladutska finished WAC play with a perfect 5-0 record as the top flight for Kansas City.
Alderson, a senior from Bainbridge Island, Wash., and teammate Weeldreyer, a freshman from Auburn, Wash., paired up to defeat North Dakota's top doubles team 6-4 to lead Seattle U to a 5-2 win on senior day.
Rinaldi, a senior from Belgium, and partner Occhipinti, a sophomore from Ragusa, Italy, went 2-0 on the weekend as the first flight duo. At the beginning of the weekend, the pair matched up against Kansas City's duo and defeated them 6-4. For the final match of conference play, they defeated Seattle U's top pair 6-2. Rinaldi and Occhipinti finished with a 4-1 record as they have won the last three matches.
Other male singles nominees: Seattle U's Arshak Ghazaryan defeated North Dakota's second flight 6-3, 6-0… UT Rio Grande Valley's Dennis Boisseau defeated Laredo Community College's top competitor 7-5, 6-4.
Other female singles nominees: Chicago State's Katarina Drazic defeated both UT Rio Grande Valley's (6-0, 6-3) and Seattle U's (6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (4)) fifth flight and clinched the team victory against Seattle U… Grand Canyon's Kylie Waschuk was victorious over Kansas City's sixth flight 6-3, 6-3 and clinched the team victory over Seattle U as she took down her opponent 2-6, 6-1, 6-4… Seattle U's Hannah Gianan went 3-0 as the second flight as she defeated opponents from NM State (6-4, 6-2), Chicago State (7-5, 6-3) and Grand Canyon (2-6, 6-2, 6-2)… UT Rio Grande Valley's Anastasia Belyaeva helped her team clinch the regular season title and the number one seed in the tournament as she took down Chicago State's fourth flight 6-1, 6-4 and NM State's fourth flight 7-5, 6-4.
Other male doubles nominees: UT Rio Grande Valley's Yehonatan Kaufman/ Elliot Johnston were victorious over Laredo Community College's second flight 6-2.
Other female doubles nominees: Chicago State's Mariya Kostyuk/Katarina Drazic paired as the top flight as they defeated opponents from UT Rio Grande Valley (7-5) and Seattle U (7-5)… Kansas City's Aliona Ladutska/Grace Ball defeated Grand Canyon's second flight duo 6-0 and NM State's duo 6-3… Seattle U's Hannah Gianan/Kyra Jung went 2-1 as they defeated NM State's second flight duo 6-3 before losing to Chicago State's pair 7-5 but bounced back with a 6-2 victory over Grand Canyon's competitors… UT Rio Grande Valley's Lasya Patnaik/Anastasia Belyaeva competed as the third flight and defeated both Chicago State's pair (7-6) and NM State's duo 6-0.
2018 WAC Tournament
The 2018 WAC Men's and Women's Tennis Tournaments will be hosted by Grand Canyon on April 27-29 in Phoenix. All six teams will compete in the Tournament as the first round will be No. 4 seed against No. 5 seed and No. 3 seed takes on No. 6 seed. No. 1 and No. 2 seeds earn a ticket straight to the semifinals. The winner of the tournament will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as the WAC representative. The reigning tournament champion for the men and women is Kansas City as they defeated NM State 4-3 in men's and 4-1 in women's in the Championship match last year.
2017 ITA REGIONALS
The ITA Regional Championships will feature some of the top men's and women's players across the country. Over 8,000 student-athletes from NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, Junior and Community Colleges compete across 85 ITA Regional Championships around the country.
Region/Host
Northwest: Pacific
Southwest: Pepperdine
Mountain: BYU
Texas: Texas A&M
Central: Minnesota
Midwest: Michigan
Northeast: Yale
Ohio Valley: Tennessee
Atlantic: Liberty
Carolina: Duke
Southern: LSU
Southeast: Georgia Tech
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS - The 2018 Tennis National Championships will take place in Winston Salem, N.C at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Wake Forest will be the host May 17-28.
May 17-28
Location: Winston Salem, N.C
Host: Wake Forest