Tennis Begins ITA All-American Championship
September 26, 2014 | Women's Tennis
Riviera/ITA Home | Pre-Qualifying Singles
Women’s Tennis will travel to southern California today to compete in the Riviera/ITA All-American Championship for the next week. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) ranked sophomore Lexi Borr and senior Jessica Wacnik as the #21 doubles team in the country. Freshman Assiya Dair was ranked #10 in the country on the ITA Newcomer/Freshman rankings. Dair was also accepted into the pre-qualifer singles round at the All-American Championships. Junior Katya Vasilyev was ranked #27 on the alternate pre-qualifier list and will compete as well.
This is the first time a doubles team has been selected as a Qualifer and Dair is the first BC women’s player to be in the Newcomer/Freshman rankings.
The 31st Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships will be hosted by The Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, CA. The national championship begins Saturday, Sept. 27, with pre-qualifying singles and doubles matches hosted by UCLA. Main draw action is slated for Thursday, Oct. 2-Sunday, Oct. 5 at the Riviera Tennis Club.
64 players from around the nation comprise the qualifying round of the singles draw, while 32 players make up the doubles draw.
Borr and Wacnik’s doubles team was chosen as qualifiers, therefore skipping the pre-qualifier round. Each of the four student-athletes were also chosen as pre-qualifying singles and will compete beginning on Saturday. Vasilyev takes on New Mexico’s Otero, Borr will face Northwestern’s Leung, Wacnik will face Johnson of Drake and Dair will face off against Parajove from TCU.
The pre-qualifying round leads to the qualifying round which then leads to main draw, the round which holds the possibility of winning the tournament.
Main draw singles semifinalists, main draw doubles finalists and main draw consolation champions will receive automatic entry into the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, Nov. 6-9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.
The ITA Women's All-American Championships were first inaugurated in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and have been hosted by the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, California since 1986. Today, the Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships continue to bring together the finest returning singles and doubles competitors from the previous season with the superior members of the incoming freshman class for a riveting week of college tennis.
