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Wolverines to Head to Ole Miss for ITA Kick-Off
1/23/2019 12:53:00 PM | Women's Tennis
» No. 9-ranked Michigan begins dual-match action this weekend, heading to Ole Miss for the ITA Kick-Off with a berth to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship on the line.
» Joining U-M at the event are No. 12 Ole Miss, No. 24 Syracuse and Purdue.
» The Wolverines are looking for their 10th straight berth to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. U-M is playing on the road during the ITA Kick-Off for the first time since 2010.
THIS WEEK
Sat-Sun., Jan. 26-27 -- at ITA Kick-Off (Oxford, Miss.)
Saturday, Jan. 26 -- vs. No. 24 Syracuse, 2 p.m. CST | Live Scoring
Sunday, Jan. 27 -- vs. No. 12 Ole Miss/Purdue, 11 a.m. CST/2 p.m. CST
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The No. 9-ranked University of Michigan women's tennis team (0-0) kicks off dual-match play this weekend (Jan. 26-27), heading to Ole Miss for the ITA Kick-Off weekend. Joining U-M at the event are No. 10 Ole Miss (0-0), No. 24 Syracuse (2-0) and Purdue (2-0).
About the ITA Kick-Off Weekend
The No. 1-seeded team (Ole Miss) at each site will face the No. 4 team (Purdue). The No. 2 team (Michigan) will face the No. 3 team (Syracuse). Two matches are guaranteed -- the winners/losers will play the following day. The 15 schools that win both of their matches at these events will be invited to play in the Feb. 8-11 ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Seattle, Washington.
Ranked Singles Players
No. 3 Kate Fahey (U-M)
No. 19 Silvia Ambrosio (Purdue)
No. 27 Brienne Minor (U-M)
No. 36 Chiara Lommer (U-M)
No. 43 Gabriela Knutson (Syracuse)
No. 65 Giulia Pairone (U-M)
No. 68 Sabina Machalova (Ole Miss)
No. 92 Sofya Golubosvskaya (Syracuse)
No. 112 Tereza Janatova (Ole Miss)
No. 114 Anna Vrbenska (Ole Miss)
Ranked Doubles Teams
No. 15 Brienne Minor/Kate Fahey (U-M)
No. 16 Alexa Bortles/Isolde de Jong (Ole Miss)
No. 24 Sofya Golubosvskaya/Sofya Treshcheva (Syracuse)
No. 31 Sabina Machalova/Tea Jandric (Ole Miss)
No. 48 Anna Vrbenska/Allie Sanford (Ole Miss)
Wolverine Bites
• Michigan is looking for its 10th straight ITA National Team Indoor Championship berth, having made an appearance at the national event in every season since 2010. This year's championship (Feb. 8-11) will be held in Seattle, Washington.
• U-M is on the road for the ITA Kick-Off for the first time since the 2010 season. U-M headed to Arkansas that year, knocking off No. 16 South Carolina (4-3) in the first round and defeating No. 18 Arkansas (5-2) in the championship round. U-M erased a 3-1 deficit against South Carolina, winning the final three matches on court to advance to the championship round.
• The Wolverines enter the dual-match portion of the season ranked No. 9 by the ITA. U-M is the highest ranked Big Ten team, with Northwestern coming in at No. 19 and Illinois ranked 21st.
• The Maize and Blue is coming off a successful weekend at the Varsity Tennis Center, with senior Kate Fahey winning the Michigan Invitational singles title for the third straight season with a 3-0 record. Junior Chiara Lommer joined Fahey with a 3-0 singles mark, with senior Brienne Minor and junior Giulia Pairone each going 2-0.
• Michigan enters dual-match action with four players ranked in the top 65 in singles in No. 3 Kate Fahey, No. 27 Brienne Minor, No. 36 Chiara Lommer and No. 65 Giulia Pairone. Fahey and Minor team up to form the No. 15-ranked doubles team. U-M is one of seven teams with at least four ranked singles players (Georgia, Vanderbilt, Texas, North Carolina, Stanford, Duke).
• Senior Kate Fahey heads into the weekend with a 17-4 singles record after tournament action. Fahey swept the titles at the ITA Midwest Regional Championship and finished as the singles runner-up at the ITA Fall National Championships. Fahey is 111-27 in singles during her illustrious career, currently tying her for fifth all-time in wins with Denise Muresan. Her .804 winning percentage is tops in Michigan history.
• U-M added three newcomers to the roster this season in junior Giulia Pairone, freshman Anca Craciun and freshman Lanie Van Linge. Pairone spent the first two seasons of her collegiate career at Arkansas, where she competed in the 2017 NCAA Doubles Championship and the 2018 NCAA Singles Championship.
• Michigan has put together quite the non-conference schedule, with the slate featuring No. 24 Syracuse, possible opponent No. 12 Ole Miss, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Pepperdine, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Duke, No. 23 Virginia and No. 11 Florida. U-M will face Texas, Pepperdine, North Carolina and Virginia at the Varsity Tennis Center this season. Schedule
• The Wolverines will return to the Varsity Tennis Center next weekend, first hosting Michigan State on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. U-M will wrap the weekend against No. 6 Texas on Feb. 3 at noon. Admission to all matches at the VTC is free.
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