Virginia Tennis: Three Cavaliers Advance to Round of 16 in NCAA Singles Tournament

Three Virginia tennis gamers have superior to the Spherical of 16 of the NCAA Singles Tennis Championship. Emma Navarro and Natasha Subhash from the UVA ladies’s tennis staff and Inaki Montes from the newly-crowned nationwide champion Virginia males’s tennis staff have moved on to the Spherical of 16 of their respective tournaments. Navarro and Hibah Shaikh have additionally moved on to the second spherical of the NCAA Doubles Tennis Championship. 

Emma Navarro, the No. 1 total seed within the ladies’s singles match and the defending NCAA singles champion, cruised via her first spherical matchup in opposition to Texas Tech’s Margarita Skriabina with a 6-0, 6-0 victory on Monday. Within the Spherical of 32 on Tuesday, Navarro defeated Georgia Tech’s Carol Lee 6-4, 7-6 to advance to the Spherical of 16, the place she’s going to face one other ACC opponent in NC State’s Abigail Rencheli on Wednesday at 1:30pm. 

Natasha Subhash upset the No. 8 seed of the ladies’s singles match within the first spherical, taking down Texas A&M’s Carson Branstine in straight units, 7-5, 6-2. Subhash then defeated Oklahoma’s Carmen Corley 6-3, 7-5 within the Spherical of 32 on Tuesday. Within the Spherical of 16, Subhash will face VCU’s Paola Exposito Diaz-Delgado on Wednesday at 10am. 

On the lads’s facet, Virginia’s Inaki Montes took down USC’s Peter Makk 6-3, 6-1 within the opening spherical. Within the Spherical of 32, Montes met Tennessee’s Johannus Monday for the second time this week. After defeating Monday 7-6, 6-3 as a part of Virginia’s 5-0 sweep of Tennessee within the semifinals of the staff match on Saturday, Montes bested Monday once more within the singles match, successful 6-2, 6-1. Montes strikes on to the Spherical of 16, the place he’ll face No. 2 seed Daniel Rodriguez of South Carolina on Wednesday at 11:30am. 

Within the ladies’s doubles match, the No. 3-seeded staff of Emma Navarro and Hibah Shaikh have superior to the Spherical of 16 after defeating Arizona State’s Domenika Turkovic and Patricija Spaka 6-4, 7-5 within the opening spherical on Tuesday. 

All the matches will be streamed reside on the TennisOne app and web site. 

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