Five Bulldogs Set to Compete in NCAA Individual Championships
Fast Facts
- No. 28 Aysegul Mert and No. 92 Anastasiia Gureva will collectively make their NCAA Singles Championships debut.
- No. 9 Anastasiia Lopata capped her second season at Georgia with a run to the 2024 NCAA Singles final, becoming the lowest-ranked player and ninth alternate ever to reach the championship match.
- Lopata and Gureva qualified for the 64-player singles field by finishing the ITA Southeast Regional as singles co-champions earlier this fall.
- Mert will also make her first appearance in the NCAA Singles Championships after taking home the ITA Conference Masters Singles Championship title last week.
- Georgia will roll out two doubles pairs for the tournament. Freshmen Deniz Dilek and Emma Dong secured their spot with a finals run at the ITA South Sectionals, while Mert and Gureva qualified by winning the ITA Southeast Regional Doubles Championship.
- Mert returns to the NCAA Doubles Championships for a third-consecutive season where she captured the 2024 national doubles title with former teammate Dasha Vidmanova in Stillwater, Oklahoma and advanced to the Round of 16 in last year’s event.
- All matches will be streamed by Cracked Racquets and will appear on ESPN+.
NCAA Individual Championships
Date: Nov. 18-23
Location: Orlando, Florida
Site: USTA National Campus
Schedule of Play
Singles (Round of 64)- Nov. 18
Doubles (Round of 32)- Nov. 19
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