Nine teams punched their tickets to the NCAA Division I final site in Waco Texas next weekend, claiming wins today at Super Regionals on host campuses.
While top seeds Wake Forest men and Georgia women cruised, posting 4-0 victories, two hosts were upset, with No. 13 seed LSU defeating No. 4 Ohio State 4-2 in Columbus and No. 10 Tennessee going into Charlottesville and beating No. 7 Virginia 4-0.
It's the LSU program's first appearance in the NCAA team quarterfinals.
The first unseeded men's team to reach the quarterfinals since 2010 is UCLA, who avenged their two losses to USC earlier this year by a 4-2 score. USC took the doubles point and first sets at lines 4, 5 and 6, but all six singles matches went to third sets, with UCLA getting wins from Emon van Loben Sels at 2 and Kaylan Bigun at 3. Alex Hoogmartens at line 4 and Spencer Johnson at line 5 came from behind to take their matches with Johnson clinching for UCLA.
Friday's results, with recaps/box scores:
MEN:
*Stanford[4] d. South Carolina[13] 4-0
*UCLA v Southern California 4-2
*Wake Forest[1] d. Texas A&M[16] 4-0
*host school
WOMEN:
*Texas A&M[2] d. UCLA 4-2
*Georgia[1] d. Cal 4-0
LSU[13] d. *Ohio State[4] 4-2
Tennessee[10] d. *Virginia[7] 4-0
*North Carolina[5] d. NC State[12] 4-2
*Duke[8] d. Auburn[9] 4-2
*host school
The seven remaining Super Regionals will be played Saturday, with the schedule below. Cracked Racquets will have coverage with four separate streams at their
YouTube Channel.
Men's draws are
here; women's draws are
here.
Saturday May 10
MEN:
*Ohio State[5] v Mississippi State[12] noon Eastern
*TCU[2] v Central Florida[15] 1pm Eastern
*Virginia[7] v Arizona[10] 1pm Eastern
*Columbia[8] v NC State[9] 1pm Eastern
*Texas[3] v Tennessee[14] 1pm Eastern
WOMEN:
*Michigan[3] v Texas[14] 1pm Eastern
*Oklahoma State v Stanford 2pm Eastern
*host school
Two teenagers have advanced to the semifinals at the two women's USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Florida, with 18-year-old Monika Ekstrand making the final four at the
W35 in Boca Raton and 15-year-old Kristina Liutova of Russia reaching her first Pro Circuit semifinal at the W50 in Indian Harbour Beach.
Stanford recruit Ekstrand, who won her first title last month at the W35 in Mississippi, defeated unseeded Allura Zamarippa(Texas) 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-1 in today's quarterfinal. She will play unseeded Jada Robinson, who beat Ekstrand last year in the first round at the W35 in Boca Raton. Robinson defeated No. 3 seed Kayla Day 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) avenged her loss last week in Boca Raton to No. 6 seed Luisina Giovannini of Argentina, when she won just one game. Today Akli defeated Giovannini 6-2, 7-5 to reach her third consecutive semifinal in the past three weeks. Akli will play No. 4 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria, who defeated No. 8 seed Alana Smith(NC State) 6-3, 6-4.
Liutova, who trains in the United States, defeated No. 8 seed Ana Sofia Sanchez of Mexico 6-4, 6-3 to earn a contest with top seed Arina Rodionova of Australia, who at 35, is more than twice as old as Liutova.
1 comments:
Seems like you should also refer to UCLA as the Big Ten Champs. If you’re going to emphasize that UCLA is the first unseeded to reach the Quarters in 15 years, also include that it’s not a fluke. This accomplishment needs an asterisk. When was the last time the Big Ten Champs did not make the quarterfinals? Even the ITA rankings would have had them seeded. The point is that UCLA has played high quality, top 10 level tennis for a number of weeks now. Nothing surprising about their accomplishment, especially with their pedigree
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