Tennis: UVA to host NCAA Regionals this weekend; Seven Hoos earn NCAA individual invites

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

For the third straight year, Virginia will be hosting the first and second rounds of both the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships. The matches will take place Friday through Sunday at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort.

The women’s team (18-6) earned an at-large bid into the field of 64 teams, earning a No. 12 seed. UVA will host Northeast Conference champion LIU (12-10) in the second match on Friday. Princeton (16-6) and Fordham (14-7) will play in the opener.

The men’s team (24-4) earned the Atlantic Coast Conference’s automatic bid into the championship and was named the No. 5 overall seed. Virginia will open play by facing Navy (23-19) as the second match on Saturday. Ole Miss (17-9) and VCU (20-5) will play in the first match of the day.

Women’s team bracket: Click here

Men’s team bracket: Click here

This is the Virginia men’s 19th-consecutive NCAA Championship bid and the 18th time that they have hosted a regional. Virginia has won five NCAA titles, including three consecutive from 2015-17.

The women are making their 22nd appearance in the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships and their fifth-consecutive appearance under head coach Sara O’Leary.

Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students with a valid ID per session.  Ages 2 and up are required to have a ticket. Tickets can be purchased beginning Tuesday by calling the Virginia Athletics ticket office at 434-924-8821, online at UVAtix.com, or on-site at Boar’s Head Resort starting one hour prior to the event.

The 16 teams advancing from the second round of the tournament will participate in two-team super regionals on the campuses of the higher-seeded teams, set to take place on May 13-14. As a top-eight seed, the men’s team is in line to host super regionals next weekend should they advance. The women’s team could also host if 5-seed Michigan fails to advance.

The eight super regional winners will then advance to the site of the finals at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida, with the quarterfinals through championship matches being contested May 17-20. NCAA Singles and Doubles will take place May 22-27.

Virginia hosted both the men’s and women’s regionals for seven consecutive years from 2010-2016 and also did so each of the last two years.

Charlottesville Regional schedule

FRIDAY (WOMEN)
1 p.m. — Princeton vs. Fordham
4 p.m. — (12) VIRGINIA vs LIU

SATURDAY (MEN)
10 a.m. — Ole Miss vs. VCU
1 p.m. — (5) VIRGINIA vs. Navy

SATURDAY (WOMEN)
4 p.m. — Second Round Match

SUNDAY (MEN)
1 p.m. — Second Round Match

NCAA Individual Championships Info

Four members of the Virginia men’s team and three members of the women’s team have earned invitations to compete in the NCAA Individuals Championships, being held May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 18-20. This year’s event will be conducted jointly with the NCAA Divisions II and III Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships and hosted by the University of Central Florida and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission.

Junior Chris Rodesch will be a 9-16 seed in the singles championship. Juniors Iñaki Montes and Jeffrey von der Schulenburg also earned at-large bids into the singles championship. Montes and grad student Ryan Goetz earned the Atlantic Coast Conference’s automatic qualification into the doubles championship as the top-ranked team in the ACC. They will be a 4-8 seed in the championship.

Men’s singles bracket: Click here

Men’s doubles bracket: Click here

On the women’s side, grad student Julia Adams earned at-large invitations to compete in both the singles and doubles championships, partnering with sophomore Mélodie Collard in the latter. Senior Natasha Subhash earned an at-large invitation to the singles championship. Additionally, Subhash and Elaine Chervinsky are the first alternates for the doubles field and could earn a spot in the championship based on withdrawals.

Women’s singles bracket: Click here

Women’s doubles bracket: Click here

Matchups and the complete singles and doubles brackets will be announced the day before the start of the tournament.

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 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

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, with a minimum of four matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.