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Duke to Open ITA Regional Championships Thursday
10/19/2016 4:10:00 PM | Women's Tennis
DURHAM, N.C. -- The Duke women's tennis team makes the short trip to Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday to begin competition at the ITA Regional Championships Presented by Oracle. The five-day tournament, running from Thursday, Oct. 20 through Monday, Oct. 24, will take place at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
Duke sends a full contingent of competitors to Chapel Hill, with all eight team members set to compete in the same tournament for the first time this fall.
Junior Rebecca Smaller opens the tournament with play in the qualifying singles draw. The London native is slated to face Winthrop's Alisa Soloveva beginning at 8:30 a.m. A victory against Soloveva would advance Smaller to the second round of the qualifying singles draw, where she would face the winner of the contest between Elon's Natalie Janowicz and Charlotte's Alex Lee. The winner of the second round match, which is scheduled for an 11 a.m. start, would earn a spot in the main draw.
In addition to singles, doubles play also begins Thursday, with four Blue Devil pairs in action.
Following singles play, Smaller is scheduled to resume competition in doubles. The duo of Smaller and redshirt sophomore Christina Makarova is set to face South Carolina's tandem of Silvia Chinllato and Hannah Templeton at 3 p.m.
Three additional Duke teams, including the tandem of senior Alyssa Smith and freshman Meible Chi, the duo of junior Samantha Harris and sophomore Ellyse Hamlin and the pairing of senior Chalena Scholl and sophomore Kaitlyn McCarthy, are also slated to participate Thursday, with each earning a first round bye. Scholl and McCarthy last competed alongside one another at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, where the tandem posted a 1-1 record. The other three Duke pairs taking the court Thursday are competing together for the first time this season.
Chi and Smith will face the winner of the match between Gardner Webb's Sandra Bolstad and Mary Mixon and Davidson's Gabrielle Centenari and Anne Catherine Feaster, with the contest beginning at 4 p.m., while Hamlin and Harris' opponent for their 4:30 p.m. match will be decided by the meeting between Elon's Alex Koniaev and Suzanne Zenoni and Wake Forest's Sam Asch and Courtney Meredith. Scholl and McCarthy will serve as the final Duke tandem to take the court Thursday, with their match between either Appalachian State's Megan Mullen and Heidi Swope and North Carolina Asheville's Hannah Francisco and Kylee Shipley beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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