The Chicago State men's and women's tennis teams are continuing competition at the 2022 ITA Regional Championships and Friday's action included the first round of doubles at both sites. The University of Illinois is hosting the men's regional while the University of Michigan is hosting the women.
In first round action today,
Max Sandoval and
Pedro Alvarez,
Arhaan Pahwa and
Hugo Hidalgo Vega,
Katarina Dukic and
Cali Fuller, and
Ethel Li and
Kristina Pukhaeva lost in the first round while Pukhaeva dropped a 6-1, 6-1 singles match in the singles main draw. Complete results for Chicago State from the tournament's first two days are listed below along with the remaining tournament schedule.
The ITA Regional Championships feature some of the top men's and women's players across the country with over 8,000 student-athletes from NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, Junior and Community Colleges competing across 85 ITA Regional Championships around the country. In Division I, regional doubles champions and regional singles champions and finalists qualify for the season-ending ITA National Fall Championships.
Looking ahead,
Hugo Hidalgo Vega and
Pedro Alvarez were automatic qualifiers into the main draw of the men's tournament in singles and will begin play Saturday while the women have been eliminated. Alvarez will take on Trice Pickens from Northwestern and Hidalgo Vega will face Michael Minasyan from Wisconsin.
2022 ITA Men's Regional Championships
Midwest Region Qualifying Draw
Hosted by The University of Illinois
Oct. 20-25, 2022
Chicago State Results
Thursday's Results
Qualifying Singles First Round
Matthew Halpin (Notre Dame) defeated
Max Sandoval (Chicago State), 6-3, 6-4
Jameson Corsillo (Notre Dame) defeated
Arhaan Pahwa (Chicago State), 6-3, 6-0
Consolation Singles
Hsiang Lee (Northern Illinois) defeated
Max Sandoval (Chicago State), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
Arhaan Pahwa (Chicago State) defeated Vlad Meluta (Toledo) defeated , 6-4, 6-2
Friday, October 21
Doubles Round of 64
Tyler Bowers/Nic Meister (Illinois) defeated
Arhaan Pahwa/
Hugo Hidalgo Vega (Chicago State), 8-2
Jared Pratt/Mihailo Popovich (Wisconsin) defeated
Max Sandoval/
Pedro Alvarez, (Chicago State), 8-4
Saturday, October 22
Round of 64 Main Draw - Singles
Round of 32 Main Draw - Singles
Sunday, October 23
Round of 16 Main Draw - Singles
Quarterfinals Singles
Monday, October 24
Semifinals - Singles
Finals - Singles
2022 ITA Women's Regional Championships
Midwest Region Qualifying Draw
Hosted by The University of Michigan
Oct. 20-25, 2022
Chicago State Results
Thursday's Results
Qualifying Singles First Round
Mariona Perez (Toledo) defeated
Cali Fuller (Chicago State), 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
Elisabeth Desmaris (Marquette) defeated
Ethel Li (Chicago State), 6-0, 7-5
Emily Casati (Illinois) defeated
Katarina Dukic (Chicago State), 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
Friday, Oct. 21
Doubles Main Draw First Round
Tijana Zlatanovic/Alexandra Abyasova (Illinois State) defeated
Cali Fuller/
Katarina Dukic (Chicago State), 8-2
Lili Minich/Jessica Stanmore (Youngstown State) defeated
Ethel Li/
Kristina Pukhaeva (Chicago State), 8-4
Singles Main Draw First Round
Clarissa Hand (Northwestern) defeated
Kristina Pukhaeva (Chicago State), 6-1, 6-1
Consolation Singles
Andie Wiese (Marquette) defeated
Cali Fuller (Chicago State), 5-7, 6-1, 5-10
Jessica Stanmore (Youngstown State) defeated
Ethel Li (Chicago State), 7-5, 6-0
*Schedule subject to change
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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