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COLLEGE PARK, MD – This week, the University of Maryland’s Women’s Tennis team will travel to Blacksburg, Virginia, where they will compete in the ITA Atlantic Regionals Tournament. The event, hosted by Virginia Tech, will take place from Thursday, October 16th, to Tuesday, October 21st.
This will be the second ITA tournament the Terps have competed in, the last one being the ITA All-American Championship, where only three members participated (Emma Ghiradato, Oliwia Orlinska, and Ema Kovacevic).
This upcoming tournament will feature all members of the active roster, including newcomers Lucia Donnelly, Magdalena Baniak, and Emma Ghirardato. All three have had terrific starts to their Terps careers, going a collective 8-1 in singles and 5-3 in doubles matches to start the fall season.
Freshman Lucia Donnelly and Magdalena Baniak will participate in the Qualifying Draw, with Baniak coming in as the #2 Seed and Donnelly as the #11 Seed. Juniors Aida Eissa and Katherine Hung are also competing in the Qualifying draw beginning Thursday. The Terps will need to win 2 matches to advance to the Main Draw. Matches begin tomorrow at 9:00 AM Eastern.
Other than Lucia Donnelly, who will only participate in singles matches, the doubles pairings are as follows:
#3 Seed Emma Ghirardato and Ema Kovacevic
#9 Seed Oliwia Orlinska and Tamari Gagoshidze
Diya Challa and Magdalena Baniak
More information and the updated stats for the ITA Regionals can be found here:
https://colleges.wearecollegetennis.com/Competitions/VirginiaTechW/Tournaments/Overview/c9c9455c-2407-4e61-b5b9-e11636bb206a
Scoring updates will be posted throughout the week on the team’s X account.
https://x.com/TerpTennis
This will be the last tournament the Terps will be participating in October, leading up to November, where they will compete in the ITA Sectionals Championship in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from November 6th to November 9th, and the UNF Fall invite in Jacksonville, FL November 7th-9th.