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SAN DIEGO — San Diego women’s tennis will send three Toreros to the ITA West Sectional Championships in Los Angeles and four to the SDSU Invitational in San Diego this weekend.

Vilma Krebs Hyllested, Hannah Read and Emily Deming will compete at the West Sectionals hosted by USC at the Marks Tennis Stadium, Nov. 5-8. Anni Moll, Charlotte Keitel, Maria Shmakova and Lila Bachour will play in the SDSU Invitational hosted by SDSU at the Aztec Tennis Center, Nov. 6-8.

For more information and results on the ITA West Sectional Championships in Los Angeles, click here. For the live scoring and watch link, click here.

For more information and results on the SDSU Invitational, click here.

ITA WEST SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: MARKS TENNIS STADIUM, LOS ANGELES
Three Toreros will compete in the ITA Sectional Championships at Marks Tennis Stadium in Los Angeles from Nov. 5-8. The schedule link will be here.

Emily Deming: Deming has reached the singles quarterfinals in each of the Toreros’ last two tournament events. In addition to the Regional run, she beat players from BYU, ASU and Nevada at the USTA SoCal Intercollegiates on Sept. 24-27 before falling to ASU in the quarterfinals.

Hannah Read: Read teamed with Krebs Hyllested at the ITA Women’s All-American Championships in Cary, N.C., Sept. 19-23, winning four straight doubles matches through prequalifying and qualifying to reach the main draw. She also won a singles consolation match over Colorado 7-6 (7-5) in Cary. Read has since won two doubles matches and three singles matches at the Regional.

Vilma Krebs Hyllested: Krebs Hyllested and Read won their way through the All-American Championships doubles qualifying bracket with wins over Virginia, LSU and Georgia among others. They lost the main-draw round of 32 to Duke 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. In singles, she lost a three-set consolation match to Cal, 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6).

SDSU INVITATIONAL: AZTEC TENNIS CENTER, SAN DIEGO
Four Toreros will compete in the SDSU Invitational at the Aztec Tennis Center in San Diego from Nov. 6-8. The schedule link will be here.

Anni Moll: Moll and Ines Leon won the doubles title at the USTA SoCal Intercollegiates on Sept. 27, winning four matches, including a 7-5 final over ASU. Moll also won her singles opener 6-1, 7-5 over Nevada.

Charlotte Keitel: Keitel reached the singles round of 16 at the Regional with wins over Larsson and Ishikawa. At the All-American Championships, she won a consolation match over Washington 6-3, 6-2.

Maria Shmakova: Shmakova won her first two singles matches at the SoCal Intercollegiates, including a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 comeback over ASU, and then won her singles opener at the Regional. She also won doubles matches with Keitel and with Deming at the SoCal Intercollegiates.

Lila Bachour: Bachour beat Utah and Stanford in straight sets at the SoCal Intercollegiates to reach the round of 16. She later swept Nevada 6-0, 6-1. At the San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic on Oct. 2-4, she won her singles opener 6-2, 6-1 over Fresno State and teamed with Akira Roy for a 7-5 doubles win.

LAST TIME OUT: DEMING REACHES SINGLES QUARTERFINALS AT ITA REGIONAL
Deming won three straight singles matches at the ITA Regional Championships (Oct. 15-19 in San Diego) to reach the quarterfinals. She beat Long Beach State 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), Arizona State 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 and SDSU 6-3, 6-1 before Pepperdine ended the run 7-6 (8-6), 7-5.

Read won three of her four singles matches, beating UCSB 6-2, 6-2 in the round of 64 and then had consolation wins over another UCSB foe 6-2, 6-2 and USC 6-3, 6-3. She and Deming also won two doubles matches, 8-5 over Hawaii and 6-4 over Arizona, before falling 8-5 to ASU.

Keitel beat Cal State Fullerton 6-1, 6-1 and Cal State Northridge 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 before falling in the round of 16. Shmakova won her opening match 6-1, 6-2 over UC Irvine before falling to UCSB in the round of 32. Keitel and Bachour opened with an 8-4 doubles win over Hawaii before losing 8-6 to Cal Poly.