TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013\u00a0The defending national champion Texas A&M women’s tennis team was selected as one of 14 hosts for the 2027 ITA Kickoff Weekend, the organization announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Aggies will be joined by Rice, Boise State and Elon at Mitchell Tennis Center January 23-24.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M locked up the No. 1 overall seed to host the ITA Kickoff Weekend following their NCAA title campaign. In 2025-26, the Maroon & White advanced to the NCAA Championship final for the third consecutive season, winning their second national title. They also claimed their fifth-straight SEC regular season crown.<\/p>\n
The Aggies face the site’s No. 4 seed Elon in the opening round. If they advance, they play the winner of No. 2 seed Rice and No. 3 seed Boise State<\/p>\n
The Kickoff Weekend is used to determine which teams advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship which will be contested at Michigan and Ohio State. Texas A&M is hosting the ITA Kickoff Weekend for the sixth consecutive year. The Aggies are 9-0 in the event over that span, outscoring opponents 36-3.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Maroon & White did not face an opening round opponent as Michigan State withdrew from the tournament due to inclement weather. They claimed the ITA Indoor spot with a 4-0 victory over Arizona State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013\u00a0The defending national champion Texas A&M women’s tennis team was selected as one of 14 hosts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-743512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743512","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=743512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}