Oct. 16, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas - The TCU women's tennis team will begin the 2009 Wilson/ITA Texas Regional Championships this weekend at the Baylor Tennis Center in Waco. The regional champions will also automatically qualify for the National Indoor Championships that will be held Nov. 5-8 in New Haven, Conn.
The Frogs will have five singles players and a pair of doubles teams participating in the event. In singles play, No. 111 Megan Alexander and Kayla Duncan are listed as No. 9-16 seeds, while Maria Babanova, Idunn Hertzberg and Katariina Tuohimaa will also participate in the main draw, beginning Friday.
TCU will have two doubles squads kick-off the tournament in the first round of main draw doubles as the pairings of Alexander/Babanova and Duncan/Tuohimaa will open competition Friday.
The 2009 ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the nation's premier collegiate indoor tennis tournament, is the second of three national championship events for college tennis this season. The first events - the Riviera/ITA Women's and D'Novo Men's All-American Championships - were held earlier this month, and the third event is season-ending NCAA Championships in May.
The ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships feature a 32-player singles field and 16-team doubles field for men and women, including: qualifiers from these Wilson/ITA Regional Championships held across the country, the ITA National Small College champions, top performers from the ITA All-American Championships and at-large card selections made by the ITA National Tournament Committee. Overall, more than 7,000 players from nearly 600 schools participate annually in the ITA Regional and National Intercollegiate Championships.
Results from the tournament will be posted following the conclusion of each day at GoFrogs.com, the official Web site of TCU Athletics.
Wilson/ITA Texas Regional Championships Field
Baylor
Houston
Lamar
North Texas
Rice
Sam Houston State
SMU
Stephen F. Austin
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
TAMU-Corpus Christi
Texas State
Texas Tech
UT Arlington
UT El Paso
UT Pan American
UT San Antonio
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