2018 WAC Women's Tennis Tournament Bracket | Official Release
DENVER- 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.