ORLANDO, Fla. – Four members of the Virginia women’s tennis team are competing in the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, being held Nov. 18-23 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
Annabelle Xu, Martina Genis Salas, Melodie Collard and Vivian Yang have advanced to the Round of 16 of doubles.
Xu partnered with Genis Salas in doubles with Yang playing alongside Melodie Collard. Both teams are 5-8 seeds. Xu and Genis Salas opened play with a 6-4, 6-4 win against a tandem from Fordham. Collard and Yang topped a pair from Florida in their opener to advance to second round.
Xu and Yang also competed in the singles draw, with both players upset in their openers. Xu, a 9-16 seed, dropped her first set 6-3 against Stephanie Yakoff of Harvard, but won her second set 6-3. Yakoff took the third set 6-3 to eliminate Yu.
Yang, also a 9-16 seed in the singles draw, won her first set 6-1 agains Carolina Gomez Alonso of Arkansas, but the Razorback came back to take the final two sets to eliminate Yang.
SCHEDULE/RESULTS
Doubles
R32 [5-8] #9 Melodie Collard/Vivian Yang (VA) vs #45 Xinyi Nong/Nikola Daubnerova (FLA) 6-4, 6-3
R16 [5-8] #9 Melodie Collard/Vivian Yang (VA) vs #10 Victoria Osuigwe/Gabriella Broadfoot (NCST), Thursday 4 pm
R32 [5-8] #26 Annabelle Xu/Martina Genis Salas (VA) def. Nevan Kolarevic/Julianne Nguyen (FORD) 6-4, 6-4
R16 [5-8] #26 Annabelle Xu/Martina Genis Salas (VA) vs Krisha Mahendran/Jana Hossam Salah (USC), Thursday 3 pm
Singles
R64 #39 Carolina Gomez Alonso (ARK) def. [9-16] #114 Vivian Yang (VA) 1-6, 6-2, 6-2
R64 Stephanie Yakoff (HARV) def. [9-16] #23 Annabelle Xu (VA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
