University of Georgia Athletics
October 21, 2010 | Women's Tennis
Oct. 21, 2010
ATHENS-----The University of Georgia plays host to the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Women's Tennis Championships starting Friday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
An array of the top collegiate players from 16 schools around the state of Georgia and Florida will compete in a 64-player singles draw along with a 32-team doubles field. Action gets underway with doubles at 9 a.m. Friday followed by two rounds of singles starting at 11 a.m. The event concludes Monday.
The Bulldogs will have seven players in the singles field: Alexandra Anghelescu, Cameron Ellis, Kate Fuller, Nadja Gilchrist, Alina Jerjomina, Lilly Kimbell and Maho Kowase. In doubles, Georgia's three entries will be Kimbell/Gilchrist, Fuller/Kowase and Ellis/Anghelescu, and they will hit the court at 9 a.m.
Gilchrist, who is ranked No. 31 nationally, is the fourth seed in the singles. She is slated to play her singles match at 11 a.m. against Carolina de los Santos (Stetson). Ellis has an 11 a.m. singles match, and she will be facing Paola Garrido-Rodriguez (Georgia Southern). Fuller and Jerjomina have 11 a.m. matches too while the rest of the Bulldog contingent plays later in the day.
It is one of 12 regional championships being held this month around the country. The singles and doubles champions from each regional will advance to the 2010 USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Championships, slated for Nov. 4-7 at the USTA-Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
The complete singles and doubles draws can be found on georgiadogs.com.
