Alabama Women’s Tennis Hosts ITA Southern Regionals

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's tennis team will host the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Southern Regionals beginning Thursday at 9 a.m. CT at the Alabama Tennis Stadium. The five-day competition will conclude on Tuesday, Oct. 19.

How to Follow

A link to live results is available at RollTide.com. Updates throughout the tournament will be provided on the team's official Twitter account, @AlabamaWTN.

Tournament Schedule

The tournament will open with qualifying singles matches on Thursday at 9 a.m. CT
Qualifying matches will conclude Friday morning at 8 a.m. CT, before the main draw of singles opens that afternoon
Friday will also open doubles action with competition beginning at 9 a.m. CT
Saturday will feature the Round of 32 and Round of 16 for both doubles and singles
Quarterfinals for both doubles and singles will be on Sunday, while semifinals will compete on Monday and finals on Tuesday
Competition will begin at 9 a.m. CT on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Play will begin at 8 a.m. CT on Friday

The ITA Southern Regional

Alabama will face members from 17 teams at the ITA Southern Regional as UA welcomes Alcorn State, Auburn, Jacksonville State, Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech, LSU, McNeese State, Mississippi State, Northwestern State, Ole Miss, Samford, South Alabama, Southern Miss, UAB, Troy and Tulane
113 athletes will compete in the singles draw while 49 doubles teams will compete in the doubles competition
Ansley Cheshire begins competition Thursday in the qualifying round, competing against Jacksonville State's Dariana Prato
In Friday's main draw, Ola Pitak will play South Alabama's Delien Klienhans at 12 p.m. CT, Loudmilla Bencheikh will play Southern Miss' Sarah Medik at 12 p.m. CT, Anna Parkhomenko will play UAB's Jana Hecking at 1:30 p.m. CT, Kasia Pitak will play LSU's Safiya Carrington at 2 p.m. CT, Anne Marie Hiser will play South Alabama's Luminita Tutunaru at 3 p.m. CT and Petra Sedlackova's first match will be against someone from the qualifying round at 3:30 p.m. CT
The Pitak sisters open doubles play for UA battling Romane Moose and Carolina Bulatovic at 9 a.m. CT on Friday
Parkhomenko and Sedlackova will compete at 10 a.m. CT Friday against McNeese State's Ariane Monlleo Sanchis and Aina Domingo-Bernabeu, while Bencheikh and Hiser compete at 10 a.m. CT against Lara van der Merwe and Otoha Aoki from South Alabama

A Look at the Fall

The Tide opened its 2021-22 season at the Ole Miss Fall Invite (Sept. 24-26)
Loudmilla Bencheikh defeated two ranked players at the tournament, topping preseason No. 27 Sabina Machalova from Ole Miss and No. 114 Karine-Marion Job from Kansas State
Anne Marie Hiser also posted a pair of singles victories, defeating Ole Miss' Kelsey Mize and Kansas State's Rosanna Maffei
Petra Sedlackova rounded out singles action with wins against Maria Linares of Kansas State and Ole Miss' Rachel Krzyzak
Bencheikh and Hiser went 2-1 in doubles play as the duo defeated opponents from Kansas State and Ole Miss

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