ATLANTA - The University of the South women's tennis team had a memorable weekend at the 2022 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) South Regional Championships. The event was hosted by Emory University.
Over the three-day event, the Purple and White finished 25-11 in singles and 18-5 in doubles. Four Tigers,
Brooke Despriet,
Katherine Petty,
Alice Hall and
Ansley Carpenter all qualified to participate in the ITA Cup, also known as the Small College National Championships, for Division III on Oct. 13-16 in Rome, Ga.
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SINGLES MAIN DRAW HIGHLIGHTS
-Ten Tigers participated in the main draw, with five advancing to the Round of 16. However, the highlight of the draw was sophomore
Alice Hall, who won four straight matches to make it to the final.
-After breezing through her opponents in the first three rounds, she suffered a set defeat for the first time in the tourney in the semifinals. Iris Berman of Emory forced a tie-break in the opening set and defeated Hall, 7-6 (3).
-Following the defeat, Hall rallied to knock off Berman, 6-3, 6-1, to advance to the final of the main draw.
-Stephanie Shulman of Emory would defeat Hall in the championship, 6-1, 6-1.
-Also in the main draw,
Emma Smith made it the quarters after defeating Alexa Goetz of Emory, 6-1, 7-6 (7).
B1 HIGHLIGHTS
-In the B1 Draw,
CiCi Hardin won all four of her matches to win the flight. The sophomore won three straight contests over Oglethorpe opponents.
B2 HIGHLIGHTS
-
Madeline Cummings and
Bradley Tyer Jones both advanced to the final in the B2 Singles flight.
-Cummings won three matches over Millsaps, Piedmont and Oglethorpe, while Tyer Jones knocked off Agnes Scott, Birmingham-Southern and Oglethorpe.
DOUBLES MAIN DRAW HIGHLIGHTS
-Four doubles teams qualified for the main doubles draw, and three made it to the semifinals. Probably the most impressive is
Nicole Nowak and
Emma Smith, who started in the round of 32 with an 8-5 win over Piedmont. In the next round, the duo would defeat the No. 2 seeded team in Ilayda Baykan and Izabele Antanavicius, 8-2.
-Nowak/Smith would advance to the quarterfinals with a win over N.C. Wesleyan, 8-2.
-Meanwhile, two other doubles teams from Sewanee also made some noise in the main draw. The top team in the region,
Brooke Despriet and
Katherine Petty, started the weekend with an 8-3 win over Alexa Goetz and Stephanie Shulman. Following an 8-1 win over Rhodes, the duo would play another Emory team in Alessia Martinez and Ana Cristina Perez in the semifinals, but that did not phase Despriet/Petty, as they shut out the Emory team to advance to the final.
-On the other side of the bracket,
Ansley Carpenter and
Alice Hall breezes past Emma McHale/Cami Lowry of Rhodes, 8-1, to qualify for the quarterfinals. Next, the team would eliminate Emily Kantrovitz and Eliza McPherron of Emory, 8-5, to make it back to the semifinals.
-With Nowak/Smith also making it to the semis on the same side of the bracket, the duo would play each other in the semifinals, making three of the four semifinal spots from the University of the South.
-Ranked as the No. 3 doubles team in the region, Carpenter/Hall advanced to the final round, 8-2.
-With both doubles teams making it to the championship, it would be Despriet and Petty who won the event, 6-1, 6-2 as they qualify for the ITA Cup in October.
-Despriet and Petty become the third doubles team from the University of the South since 1999 to win the regional championship, joining Mary Missbach/Sarah Cameron (1999) and Gabriela Carvalho (2006). Additionally, the duo will earn ITA All-America honors.
-In addition, Sewanee ended a run of 14 consecutive years that Emory has won the regional doubles championship.
B DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
-In the "B" Draw,
Gracie Hughes/
Madeline Cummings and
Bradley Tyer Jones/
Eliza Dieck both advanced to the semifinals. Each team won their Round of 16 and quarterfinal matchups, and they would meet in the semifinals. Hughes/Cummings advanced to the final with an 8-2 score.
-In the final round, Hughes/Cummings posted an 8-4 win over N.C. Wesleyan.
UP NEXT
Despriet and Petty will advance to the ITA Cup on Oct. 13-16 from the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Ga.
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