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ITA All-American Championships
Demon Deacons Primed for 2023 ITA All-American Championships
10/1/2023 4:04:00 PM | Women's Tennis
The nine-day event continues with qualifying on Monday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest women's tennis will continue fall competition this week, as a trio of Deacs are set to compete in the annual Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American Championships. The event will take place in Cary, N.C. from Monday, Oct. 2 to Monday, Oct. 8.
Qualifying play will run from Monday (Oct. 2) to Tuesday (Oct. 3) and the main draw will take place from Oct. 4-8. Pre-qualifying action began Saturday and will run through Sunday afternoon.
For the Deacs, senior Brooke Killingsworth and graduate Marcella Cruz will be competing in the doubles draw, while senior Casie Wooten will be partaking in singles play.
For the second consecutive season, this year's rendition of the ITA All-American Championships will be hosted by North Carolina, NC State, and Duke at the Cary Tennis Park.
The event can be streamed live on Playsight and you can follow along on the official ITA website.
Schedule
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Qualifying | Mon. - Tues., Oct. 2-3
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Singles Draw of 64
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Doubles Draw of 48
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Main Draw | Wed. - Sun., Oct. 4-8
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Singles Draw of 32
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Doubles Draw of 32
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Scoring Format
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Singles
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Best 2 out of 3 sets with no-ad scoring
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Qualifying Doubles
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8 game pro set with no-ad scoring
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Tiebreak at 7 games all
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Main Draw Doubles
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2 sets with a 10-point match tiebreak in lieu of a 3rd set with no-ad scoring
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Last Time Out
Wake Forest opened up fall action in Furman University's 36th annual Debbie Southern Fall Classic (Sept. 15-17), playing in multiple singles and doubles matches in a field of 14 competing schools.
Senior standout Brooke Killingsworth impressed during the weekend, picking up two solo wins, one of which included a three-set ranked victory over No. 69 Shelly Bereznyak of Ohio State. It was her first such feat over a national opponent since Oct. 2, 2022, when she downed No. 106 Laylo Bakhodirova (East Tennessee State) in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American Championships.
Heavy rainfall altered the event's schedule and format on Sunday, as Killingsworth made a morning finals appearance in the Singles Flight 2 section.
Mia Ahmad joined Killingsworth as a fellow Deac to tally two wins in the singles winner's bracket, doing so in Flight 10. Solo victories also went the way of Nevena Carton, Marcella Cruz, Sankavi Gownder and Jingyi Li on Friday (Sept. 15).
It was Wake Forest's seventh consecutive year partaking in the event.
2022 ITA All-American Championships
In this same event a year ago, Anna Brylin and Brooke Killingsworth made a round of 16 appearance in doubles.
The Deacs had a total of six players compete in the event, as Brylin, Nevena Carton, and Whitley Pate each earned singles wins during pre-qualifying play.
Up Next
The Demon Deacons will stay within the state of North Carolina, as they head to Chapel Hill for the ITA Carolina Regionals from Thursday, Oct. 19 to Monday, Oct. 23, hosted by the UNC Tar Heels.
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