BLACKSBURG, Va. - For the second
straight season, William and Mary women's tennis juniors
Jeltje Loomans and
Maria Belaya advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Atlantic Region Doubles
Championship on Monday morning. The semifinals and championship match of the
main doubles draw will be on Tuesday at the Burrows-Burelson Tennis Center.
Belaya and Loomans, who are seeded No.
3 at the regional event, upended Virginia Tech's Raluca Mita and Kelly
Williford, who was a 9-16 seed, in a tiebreaker, 9-8 (3), to remain perfect on
the season. The duo is 6-0 with its trio of wins at the region championship and
will meet the No. 2-seeded Virginia pair of Stephanie Nauta and Li Xi, who
is also ranked No. 41 nationally, in the semifinals on Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. The championship doubles match will follow the championship singles tilt.
The Tribe pair of senior
Anik Cepeda and freshman
Leeza Nemchinov saw its run at the ITA Atlantic Region Championship come to a close
in the quarterfinals on Monday morning. After upsets the No. 5 seed in the
round of 16, Cepeda and Nemchinov fell to the No. 4-seeded Marshall team of Maria
Voscekova and Dominika Zaprazna, 8-5. The Tribe pair dropped to 4-2 on the
season following the setback.
W&M was one of only two teams,
along with Virginia, in the Atlantic Region to advance two doubles teams to the
quarterfinals. Virginia Tech is the host of the ITA Atlantic Region
Championship, which runs through Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Burrows-Burelson
Tennis Center. The singles and doubles winners of the ITA Atlantic Regional
will earn a spot in the exclusion USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships
at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., Nov.
8-11. The National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship is the second fall
national championship event in college tennis and includes a 32-player singles
draw and 20-team doubles bracket for both men and women.
W&M Results from the ITA Atlantic
Region Championship
Main Doubles Draw Quarterfinals
#4 Voscekova/Zaprazna (Marshall) def.
#9-16 Cepeda/Nemchinov (W&M) - 8-5
#3 Belaya/Loomans (W&M) [12] def.
#9-16 Mita/Williford (Va. Tech) - 9-8 (3)
