Women's Tennis Heads To ITA Regional Championship
October 16, 2014 | Women's Tennis
Chestnut Hill, Mass. -The BC women’s tennis team will travel to New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 16-21 for the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships hosted by Yale University in the the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. The draw will be made Wednesday. The Eagles have qualified six singles players and three doubles teams, which is the maximum permitted. The only other school to earn this honor is the host school, Yale.
The final round of singles qualifying will take place on Friday starting at 9:00 a.m., with doubles main draw action to follow beginning at 1:00 p.m. In all, two rounds of doubles are slated for Friday while two rounds of main draw singles play are scheduled for Saturday. Later rounds will continue through to Tuesday, when the finals will take place.
Freshman Assiya Dair was ranked as the No. 10 Newcomer/Freshman in the country at the beginning of the season. The tandem of Jessica Wacnik and Lexi Borr were slotted at No. 21 in September. The aforementioned players and their teammates are striving to go deep into this tournament and earn a spot at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at the beginning of November.
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2014 Schedule of Play @YALE 8 Courts
Thursday
4:00 PM Round of 32 Singles Qualifying (16 matches)
Friday
9:00 AM Final Round of Singles Qualifying (8 matches)
12:00 Noon Coaches’ Meeting
1:00 PM Round of 64 Doubles (32 Matches)
Followed by Round of 32 Doubles (16 Matches)
6 Rotations is 6 hours
Saturday
8:00AM
Round of 128 singles (24 matches). Main draw is 88 players.
Round 64 singles (32 matches)
7 rotations is 10.5 hours
Round of 16 doubles
Sunday
10:00AM
Round of 32 Singles
Round of 16 Singles
Round of 1/4 doubles
Monday
10:00AM
Round of 1/4 singles and Semi singles
Semi of doubles
Tuesday
10:00AM
Final of singles
Final of doubles
Doubles will be an 8 game pro set NO-AD until the the semis. Semi and
final are supposed to be 2 sets and match breaker NO-AD
Singles will be two out of three sets NO-AD
