{"id":140407,"date":"2025-09-13T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:37:11","slug":"womens-tennis-off-to-a-hot-start-at-blue-gray-invitational-ole-miss-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140407\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Tennis Off to a Hot Start at Blue Gray Invitational &#8211; Ole Miss Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{10c84874-634a-4ef1-b57f-f65744376fce}{20}\" paraid=\"1360461440\">MONTGOMERY, Ala. -\u202f Ole Miss women&#8217;s tennis started its fall season in dominant fashion, after winning all six of its matches in the opening rounds of the Blue Gray Invitational on Friday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/andrea-nova\/5565\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5565\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Nova<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/ichino-horikawa\/6017\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6017\" target=\"_blank\">Ichino Horikawa<\/a>\u00a0represented Ole Miss in the Blue Draw. The duo started off the weekend\u00a0winning their doubles match\u00a08-5 against Sabella Sambola and Alba Roche of Jacksonville State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{10c84874-634a-4ef1-b57f-f65744376fce}{68}\" paraid=\"1727168445\">After their doubles win, Nova and Horikawa continued their success individually in singles. Nova defeated Sambola 6-3, 6-4, and Horikawa defeated Roche\u00a06-1, 6-1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{8808798d-fe8e-441a-bb16-a00dfd2741c6}{197}\" paraid=\"1895031668\">Nova and Horikawa\u00a0will move on to the semifinals of the Blue bracket, which will take place on Saturday at \u00a09 a.m. The pair will once again reunite for doubles as they will go up against Georgia Tech&#8217;s No. 62 pairing of Alejandra Cruz and Scarlett Nicholson. Before breaking up again to play singles.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the Gray Draw, the Ole Miss pairing of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/emily-welker\/5810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5810\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Welker<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/riley-crowder\/6016\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6016\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Crowder<\/a>\u00a0defeated the pairing of Thessy Ntondele Zinga and Chiara Di Genova of Mississippi State, 8-4. In singles,\u00a0Welker defeated Zinga, 6-2, 6-1. Crowder then won her first collegiate singles match\u00a0in her home state after defeating Genova, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{02f7c8bf-3dbe-47de-82e5-757060ff2049}{44}\" paraid=\"1005771167\">Welker and Crowder will reunite in doubles\u00a0again in the Gray bracket on Saturday at 1 p.m.\u00a0The pair will face off against the pairing of Natalie Outcalt of Auburn and Indi Patel of LSU.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>For more information on Ole Miss Women&#8217;s Tennis, follow the Rebels on Twitter at\u202f<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OleMissWTennis\">@OleMissWTennis<\/a>, on Facebook at\u202f<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OleMissWTennis\/\">OleMissWTennis<\/a>\u202fand on Instagram at\u202f<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/olemisswtennis\/\">@OleMissWTennis<\/a>. Also follow Coach Roberts on Twitter,\u202f<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gdrob91\">@gdrob91<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Doubles\u00a0<br \/>Nova and Horikawa (Ole Miss) def. Isabella Sambola and Alba Roche (JSU) 8-5\u00a0<br \/>Welker and Crowder (Ole Miss) def. Thessy Ntondele Zinga and Chiara Di Genova (MSU) 8-4\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Singles\u00a0<br \/>Nova (Ole Miss) def. Isabella Sambola (JSU) 6-3, 6-4\u00a0<br \/>Horikawa (Ole Miss) def. Alba Roche (JSU) 6-1, 6-1\u00a0<br \/>Welker (Ole Miss) def. Thessy Ntondele Zinga (MSU) 6-2, 6-1\u00a0<br \/>Crowder (Ole Miss) def Chiara Di Genova (MSU) 5-7, 6-1, 6-3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. -\u202f Ole Miss women&#8217;s tennis started its fall season in dominant fashion, after winning all six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-140407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}