The seeds and draw for the ITA Women’s Division I Team Indoor Championships are out, with North Carolina and Auburn the top seeds at the two sites. On Friday there will be four matches at each site, with North Carolina at the top of draw in Campaign and Auburn at the top of the draw in Chicago.
After the first two rounds, the two semifinalists emerging from the University of Illinois site will take Sunday off to relocate to the Northwestern venue, with the semifinals scheduled for Monday and the final for Tuesday evening.
The complete schedule for the five days can be found here.
Women’s Team Indoor first round matches and times:
(all times Central)
Friday February 6
North Carolina[1] v Illinois[8] 3:30 pm
Duke[4] v Ohio State[5] 6:30 pm
Vanderbilt[6] v Texas A&M[3] 9:00 am
Texas[7] v Oklahoma[2] noon
Northwestern site (1st and 2nd rounds, semis and finals)
Friday February 6
Auburn[1] v Northwestern[8] 3:30 pm
Oklahoma State[4] v NC State[5] 6:30 pm
Tennessee[6] v LSU 9:00 a.m.
Virginia[7] v Georgia[2] noon
Four American teenagers qualified for the main draw today: 19-year-old Dillon Beckles, a Dartmouth recruit; 16-year-old Jerrid Gaines Jr; 15-year-old Teodor Davidov, and 18-year-old Nikolas Stoot, an LSU recruit.
All four of the wild cards played today, with Oleksandr Bielinskyi of Ukraine losting to top seed Andrew Fenty 6-4, 6-1; Liam Krall(SMU) falling to Fermin Tenti of Argentina 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and Matthew Segura losing to No. 2 seed Tommaso Compagnucci of Italy 6-2, 6-1. The only wild card to win his match was Hunter Heck(Illinois), who beat Ronit Karki 6-4, 6-4. Karki and Andy Johnson received entry via the ITF’s Junior Reserved program.
Three former American collegians qualified: Madison Sieg(USC), Eryn Cayetano(USC) and Haley Giavara(Cal). Julieta Pareja lost in the final round of qualifying to former Iowa State and Tennessee star Sofia Cabezas of Venezuela 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Whitney Osuigwe is the top seed, and will play Stanford freshman Monika Ekstrand, a wild card, in the first round Wednesday. Wild cards were given to Akasha Urhobo, who lost to Hanna Chang 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 today; Lea Ma(Georgia) and Katrina Scott, who has been announced as an addition to the Tennessee roster but has yet to compete for the Vols.
No. 2 seed Maria Carle(Georgia) of Argentina won her first round match today over Alicia Herrero Linana(Baylor) of Spain 1-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Jack Kennedy’s main draw debut didn’t go well, with the 17-year-old New Yorked failing to win a game against former Wake Forest All-American Borna Gojo of Croatia. Gojo had nine aces and Kennedy had 34 unforced errors in the 53-minute match.
Qualifier Quinn Vandecasteele(Oregon) defeated No. 5 seed Murphy Cassone(Arizona State) 7-6(2), 6-3 and Christian Langmo(Miami) beat No. 8 seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) 7-6(6), 6-3 last night.