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Saturday, January 26
Chapel Hill, N.C.
9:00 AM
Princeton University
vs
Michigan State
Stephanie Schrage is ranked 67th in the country in singles by the ITA.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
ITA Kick-Off Weekend Sends Women's Tennis Team to North Carolina
January 21, 2019 | Women's Tennis
The ITA Kick-Off Weekend tournament at North Carolina will welcome the defending Ivy League champion Princeton women's tennis team Saturday and Sunday as the Tigers will open the spring dual-match season with a 9 a.m. match against Michigan State with a possible test looming against No. 3 North Carolina Sunday.
North Carolina-VCU at noon Saturday will follow Princeton's match, with the consolation match Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and the championship match following at 1 p.m. It will be Princeton's first participation in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend since 2015, when Princeton dropped a pair of 4-3 matches at Alabama against Virginia Tech and Syracuse.
Match video can be found here with live results available here.
Princeton counts Stephanie Schrage as an ITA-ranked player as she stands 67th in singles, while VCU has Paola Delgado 48th. UNC boasts four ranked singles players including two in the top four in second-ranked Makenna Jones and fourth-ranked Sara Daavettilla along with 18th-ranked Alexa Graham and Cameron Morra, tied for 21st. Morra and Jones are the nation's second-ranked doubles team.
Michigan State split a season-opening trip to Montana last Sunday with a 4-1 loss to Washington State before a 7-0 win over host Montana. VCU is 2-0 after wins last weekend over Drexel, 6-0, and Campbell, 7-0, and UNC is already two weeks into its spring season with wins over Elon and Charlotte and a Wednesday visit set from East Carolina.
Princeton and Michigan State have never met in a women's tennis team competition, while VCU has won five of the six all-time meetings, including the last meeting in 2011, and UNC has won six of the nine all-time meetings, including the last meeting in 2008.
Along with last year's perfect run through the Ivy League and a 4-3 loss to No. 19 Illinois in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Texas Tech, Princeton returns two players with All-Ivy honors in their career, which Schrage a second-team All-Ivy singles honoree last year and Nicole Kalhorn a first-team All-Ivy doubles honoree two years ago.
Following the North Carolina trip, Princeton will head to California for three Bay Area matches, at Santa Clara, Stanford and San Francisco next week.
North Carolina-VCU at noon Saturday will follow Princeton's match, with the consolation match Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and the championship match following at 1 p.m. It will be Princeton's first participation in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend since 2015, when Princeton dropped a pair of 4-3 matches at Alabama against Virginia Tech and Syracuse.
Match video can be found here with live results available here.
Princeton counts Stephanie Schrage as an ITA-ranked player as she stands 67th in singles, while VCU has Paola Delgado 48th. UNC boasts four ranked singles players including two in the top four in second-ranked Makenna Jones and fourth-ranked Sara Daavettilla along with 18th-ranked Alexa Graham and Cameron Morra, tied for 21st. Morra and Jones are the nation's second-ranked doubles team.
Michigan State split a season-opening trip to Montana last Sunday with a 4-1 loss to Washington State before a 7-0 win over host Montana. VCU is 2-0 after wins last weekend over Drexel, 6-0, and Campbell, 7-0, and UNC is already two weeks into its spring season with wins over Elon and Charlotte and a Wednesday visit set from East Carolina.
Princeton and Michigan State have never met in a women's tennis team competition, while VCU has won five of the six all-time meetings, including the last meeting in 2011, and UNC has won six of the nine all-time meetings, including the last meeting in 2008.
Along with last year's perfect run through the Ivy League and a 4-3 loss to No. 19 Illinois in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Texas Tech, Princeton returns two players with All-Ivy honors in their career, which Schrage a second-team All-Ivy singles honoree last year and Nicole Kalhorn a first-team All-Ivy doubles honoree two years ago.
Following the North Carolina trip, Princeton will head to California for three Bay Area matches, at Santa Clara, Stanford and San Francisco next week.
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