2024-25 Shocker Women's Tennis

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WTEN Preview: AAC Individual Championships

Three members of the Wichita State women's tennis team will head to Rice's George R. Brown Tennis Center in Houston, Texas to compete in the 2024 AAC Individual Championships October 24-27.

Tennis players from all 13 American Athletic Conference women's tennis teams will travel to Houston to compete in the championship. Each team is sending two players to compete in singles, as well as one doubles pairing. The Shockers are sending Kristina Kudryavtseva and Giorgia Roselli to compete in singles and Roselli will team up with Theodora Chantava to compete in doubles.

The singles and doubles champion of each bracket will represent the American Athletic Conference at the 2024 ITA Conference Masters Championship November 7-10 in Rome, Georgia.

Women's Singles - Thursday, October 24 (Top 6 seeds receive a bye)
Kristina Kudryavtseva 15.6 (WSU) vs Ekua Youri 16.1 (UTSA)
Giorgia Roselli 15.5 (WSU) vs. 16.8 Micah Pierce (Tulane)

Women's Doubles - Thursday, October 24 (Top 3 seeds receive a bye)
Giorgia Roselli 17.1/Theodora Chantava 17.4 (WSU) vs. Gresi Bajri 23.9/VanessaMellynchuk 16.3 (UAB)

The number behind each players name is their International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis Number which provides a global standard for players. It is a 40-1 scale, with 40 being a beginner player and 1 being an elite professional. Players have separate ITF World Tennis Numbers for singles and doubles.

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My guess is that the Shocks did not send XTN because the winners of the singles and doubles brackets advance to the ITA Conference Masters Championship which is another potential route to a spot in the NCAA Individual Championships which XTN has already qualified for as a result her runner-up finish at ITA Central Region Championships singles final last week.

It would be a major upset if any of the Shockers advance to the ITA Conference Masters out of this tournament but we'll see how it goes.

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Go Shockers - Chantava, Roselli Duo Advance to AAC Quarterfinals

Sophomore Giorgia Roselli shined on the opening day of the 2024 AAC Individual Championships, picking up a singles win and teaming up with Theodora Chantava to collect a doubles win on Thursday at George R. Brown Tennis Center.

The duo of Roselli and Chantava began the day with a dispatching of UAB's Gresi Bajiri and Vanessa Mellynchuk, 8-4 to advance to Friday's doubles quarterfinals.

In singles, Roselli remained dominant, crushing Tulane's Micah Pierce 6-2, 6-0 to punch her ticket into the singles round of 16 against two-seed Leonie Moeller of Memphis.

In the round of 16 match, Roselli grabbed the advantage with a swift 6-1 first set win, but Moeller responded immediately with a 6-3 victory in set two. Roselli put Moeller on the ropes in set three, jumping out to an early 5-2 lead, but the Memphis standout won four straight games to take a 6-5 advantage. Roselli would respond with a win in the next game to force a tiebreak to decide the match. Moeller took an early 4-0 lead, but would slip up, allowing Roselli to come back and even the tiebreak at 6-6. Roselli had a chance to end the match up 8-7 in the tiebreak, but a close call went the Tiger way and continued the match. The momentum then swung back to Moeller, who closed out the win in the breaker 10-8 to win the match and advance to the singles quarterfinals.

Kristina Kudryavtseva fell in her opening round singles match to Ekua Youri of UTSA, 7-5, 6-3, knocking her into the singles consolation bracket.

The Shocker doubles team of Roselli and Chantava will play tomorrow at 10am against East Carolina's Ines Bachir and Xenia Jeromin for a spot in the semifinals.

Kudryavtseva will play a consolation match tomorrow afternoon against either Lou Chalard of North Texas or Sienna Leeson of South Florida.

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Giorgia oh so close to the big upset against the No. 2 seed in the singles. Just could not close it out.

That tiebreaker in ECU doubles match was 7-5. So that match was about as close and as competitive as you could get. It will be interesting to see how they fare tomorrow against the FAU team that is the No. 1 seed. The other two teams in the semis are the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the doubles.

Kristina Kudryavtseva (15.6) was schedule to play the No. 1 singles seed, Victoria Gomez O'Hayon (12.9) of FAU, in Consolation Round of 16 but O'Hayon withdrew so Kristina moves on to the Consolation quarterfinals and will play Lou Chalard (17.8) North Texas.

Update: Kristina moved into the consolation semifinals when her opponent from North Texas retired due to injury with their match tied at 2-6, 6-3. in the semfinals Kristina lost to Tulans's Leigh Van Zyl 4-6, 5-7 to finish off her singles play.

In the doubles semifinals Gio and Theodora lost a competitive match to the No.1 seed from FAU 3-6, 6-1 and the 6-10 in the super tie-breaker in lieu of a 3rd set.

Sounds like Kristina, Geo and Theodora were pretty competitive in this tournament.