{"id":152940,"date":"2025-09-18T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152940\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:51:09","slug":"velaga-stojanovski-head-to-ita-all-american-championships-wten-at-ud-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152940\/","title":{"rendered":"Velaga, Stojanovski Head to ITA All-American Championships; WTEN at UD Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s tennis team hits the road this weekend, with a pair of players heading to the ITA All-American Championships and the rest of the squad playing at the University of Delaware&#8217;s UD Invite.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJunior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/esha-velaga\/25138\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25138\" target=\"_blank\">Esha Velaga<\/a> will represent the Quakers at the ITA All-American Championships in Cary, N.C., which begins on Saturday and runs through September 28. Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lara-stojanovski\/25135\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25135\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Stojanovski<\/a> will also compete, earning a spot in the pre-qualifying singles draw of the tournament. The ITA All-American Championships feature the nation&#8217;s top NCAA Division I players.<\/p>\n<p>The UD Invite will run from Friday to Sunday in Newark, Del.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nQuaker Notemeal<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*NJIT, Villanova, Syracuse, and Temple will join Penn and the host Blue Hens at the UD Invite.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*Sophomore Stojanovski was selected for the All-American pre-qualifying singles draw; she went\u00a03-0 in doubles with <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sasha-motlagh\/25134\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25134\" target=\"_blank\">Sasha Motlagh<\/a> at William &amp; Mary&#8217;s Tribe Invitational last weekend.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*Freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/joleen-saw\/25377\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25377\" target=\"_blank\">Joleen Saw<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/varsha-vedula\/25378\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25378\" target=\"_blank\">Varsha Vedula<\/a> recorded their first singles and doubles wins lsat weekend at the Tribe Invitational.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*Velaga earned the No. 78 spot\u00a0 in the ITA&#8217;s preseason national singles rankings, the highest in the Ivy League, and is the only player from the Ivy League to be selected to the main singles draw of the ITA All-American Championships.<\/p>\n<p>ITA All-American Championships Schedule<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPre-Qualifying Rounds:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, Sept.\u00a020 &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 21<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBegins at 9 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nQualifying Rounds:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMonday, Sept. 22 &#8211; Tuesday, Sept. 23<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBegins at 9 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMain Draw:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWednesday, Sept. 24 &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 28<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBegins at 9 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUD Invite Schedule<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFriday, 11 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0 Syracuse vs. Penn<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, 10:45 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0 NJIT &amp; Penn vs. Villanova<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSunday, 10:15 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0 NJIT &amp; Penn vs. Delaware<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 #FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s tennis team hits the road this weekend,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-152940","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\/152940","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=152940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}