Women’s DI singles, doubles selections announced

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships.

The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 17-22. Wake Forest University will serve as host.

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All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.

Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players.  For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 completed singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

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Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, eight must be completed, with four of the eight matches completed in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

SINGLES

* If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

Seeds 1-8:

1. Bianca Turati, Texas
2. Makenna Jones, North Carolina
3. Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami
4. Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov, Florida Atlantic
5. Samantha Harris, Duke
6. Gabriela Knutson, Syracuse
7. Arianne Hartono, Ole Miss
8. Anastasia Rychagova, Kansas

Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name

Fernanda Contreras, Vanderbilt
Stacey Fung, Washington
Michaela Gordon, Stanford
Paige Hourigan, Georgia Tech
Katarina Jokic, Georgia
Andrea Lazaro, Florida International
Astra Sharma, Vanderbilt
Ena Shibahara, UCLA

DOUBLES

*If the withdrawing doubles team was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

Seeds 1-4

1. Paige Hourigan, Kenya Jones | Georgia Tech
2. Jessie Aney, Alexa Graham | North Carolina
3. Emily Arbuthnott, Michaela Gordon | Stanford
4. Erin Larner, Maddie Lipp | Northwestern

Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution

Samantha Harris, Kelly Chen | Duke
Ellyse Hamlin, Kaitlyn McCarthy | Duke
Arianne Hartono, Alexa Bortles | Ole Miss
Jada Hart, Terri Fleming | UCLA