{"id":203893,"date":"2025-10-11T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203893\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:00:09","slug":"womens-tennis-off-to-strong-start-at-ita-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203893\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Tennis Off To Strong Start at ITA Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ITA_New_Logo_F8Sgm.png\" alt=\"ITA Regionals Day 3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>vs. ITA Regionals Day 3<\/p>\n<p>10\/11\/2025 | 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Stretch Internet  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Oct. 11 (Sat) \/ 9:00 a.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ITA_New_Logo_F8Sgm.png\" alt=\"ITA Regionals Day 3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0ITA Regionals Day 3&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/opponent-history\/ita-regionals-day-3\/4673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    NEW HAVEN, Conn. &#8212; Four individuals and two doubles teams advanced in their brackets as the Cornell women&#8217;s tennis team opened competition at the 2025 ITA Northeast Regional Championships with several strong early results through two days of play at Yale&#8217;s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/dylan-gelber\/80937\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"80937\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Gelber<\/a> advanced through the qualifying draw with convincing wins over Rhode Island&#8217;s Kajsa Helgesen (6-1, 6-1) and Dartmouth&#8217;s Lauren Han (6-2, 6-1) before carrying that momentum into the main draw, where she defeated Boston College&#8217;s Leyden Games 6-4, 6-4. In doubles, Gelber and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/emma-baker\/79841\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79841\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Baker<\/a> teamed up for an 8-5 first-round victory over Syracuse&#8217;s Constance Levivier and Haram Kim.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/andrea-martinez-de-los-rios\/79846\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79846\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Martinez De Los Rios<\/a> also made a strong run in singles, topping Fairfield&#8217;s Sarah Liu (6-1, 6-1) and Rhode Island&#8217;s Anastasi Pettersson (6-4, 1-6, 6-3) to reach the main draw before falling to Dartmouth&#8217;s Alexandra Orlins in three sets. Cornell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tanya-fan\/79842\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79842\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Fan<\/a> earned a three-set win in the qualifying round before bowing out in consolation play, while senior <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/gia-graziano\/79843\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79843\" target=\"_blank\">Gia Graziano<\/a> and Baker each fell to seeded opponents in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>In main draw singles, <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/michelle-ryndin\/79847\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79847\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Ryndin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sage-loudon\/79844\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79844\" target=\"_blank\">Sage Loudon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/victoria-zhao\/79848\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79848\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Zhao<\/a> each opened with straight-set victories. Ryndin downed Brown&#8217;s Daniella Benbaraham 6-3, 6-4; Loudon defeated Lehigh&#8217;s Emma Sanchez 6-4, 6-2; and Zhao edged Binghamton&#8217;s Lauren Kettlewell 6-4, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Loudon and Martinez cruised past Providence&#8217;s Flora Eidson and Allison Root 8\u20130, while Ryndin and Zhao fell in their opener to Syracuse&#8217;s Nelly Knezkova and Anastasia Sysoeva.<\/p>\n<p>Competition continues Saturday with main draw singles and doubles action.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: vs. ITA Regionals Day 3 10\/11\/2025 | 9:00 a.m. &#13; Stretch Internet &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-203893","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\/203893","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=203893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}