Guillermo Opens Play at #NationalIndoors on Thursday
11/5/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL | TOURNAMENT NOTES 
MALIBU, Calif. - Lorraine Guillermo of the Pepperdine women's tennis team wraps up the fall portion of the season this week with the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, held at the home of the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y. This is the third consecutive year Guillermo has earned a bid to the indoor national championship.
TOURNAMENT 5: Pepperdine at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships | Nov. 6-9 | Flushing, N.Y.
MATCH SCHEDULE: Round of 32 - #20 Lorraine Guillermo vs. #78 Blair Shankle (Baylor) | Nov. 6 | 7:30 a.m. (PT) ... Round of 16 and quarterfinals scheduled for Nov. 7 ... Semifinals contested on Nov. 8 ... Finals scheduled for Nov. 9.
COVERAGE: Recaps and results will be posted on PepperdineSports.com daily ... Score updates will be posted on Twitter at @PeppWTEN ... A Tournament Central, including draws, links to live scores and chat, is available at ITATennis.com ... Follow @ITATennis and the hashtag #NationalIndoors for more tweets on the event.
EVENT INFO: The annual national indoor championship tournament will take place at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. ... The venue is also home to the U.S. Open ... A consolation draw will also be contested.
PEPPERDINE AT NATIONAL INDOORS: Lorraine Guillermo, ranked #20 in the ITA preseason singles rankings, is making her third appearance at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships ... She reached the semifinals of the doubles draw in 2012 alongside Khunpak Issara ... Guillermo lost in the opening round last year as a junior ... Ginger Helgeson won the national indoor singles title in 1990 ... Paola Palencia and Ipek Senoglu earned the top seed in doubles draw in 2001, and finished as runner-up champions.
THE FIELD: The USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships singles draw consists of 32 players ... The field includes USTA/ITA Regional champions, USTA/ITA National Small College Super Bowl champions, consolation champions and semifinalists from the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, and handful of at-large and wildcard entries.
GUILLERMO NOTES: Senior Lorraine Guillermo is 9-1 this fall entering the national indoor championship ... She boasts career singles record of 82-35 (.701) ... 2014 winner of the ITA Southwest Region Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship ... 2013 ITA Southwest Regional Player to Watch ... Three-time All-WCC first team performer in doubles, two-time All-WCC first team singles selection, All-WCC second team doubles performer as a freshman ... 2012 WCC Freshman of the Year ... 2012 ITA All-American in doubles.
LOOKING BACK: Pepperdine competed at the Jack Kramer Collegiate Invitational last week ... Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai topped #27 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) 6-1, 7-6 (5) in the round of 16 before bowing out in the quarterfinals ... Both Wave duos competing, Runglerdkriangkrai/Christine Maddox and Michaela Capannolo/Danielle Feneridis advanced to the quarterfinals.
LOOKING FURTHER BACK: The Waves had a successful run at the USTA/ITA Southwest Regional Championships ... Lorraine Guillermo, seeded second in singles, reached the finals but was unable to compete due to illness ... She also reached the doubles final alongside Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai ... The duo delivered a solid performance, despite Guillermo's untimely bout with the flu, but lost 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1) to USC's Giuliana Olmos/Gabby Smith ... Michaela Capannolo/Danielle Feneridis reached also reached the doubles quarterfinal ... Runglerdkriangkrai reached the round of 32 in singles.
LOOKING AHEAD: The Waves go on hiatus until opening the dual season on January 24 against Wichita State during the ITA Kick-Off Weekend.
Per Nilsson: Per Nilsson returned to Pepperdine in June 2014 to succeed Gualberto Escudero as head coach of the women's tennis team ... He was an assistant coach for the Pepperdine men's tennis team from 2003-07 under head coach Adam Steinberg, where the Waves went 119-38 in those five seasons ... Pepperdine won the NCAA team championship in 2006 with Nilsson on the sidelines ... He was the head men's coach at Mississippi State, his alma mater, for seven seasons from 2008-2014 ... Nilsson compiled a record of 95-76 during his time at MSU.
Gualberto Escudero - Gualberto Escudero ended the 2013-14 campaign with a career record of 651-334 (.661) in his final season as head coach ... He ranks second among all NCAA Div. I women's tennis coaches -- active or inactive -- for his win total, and is just one of three coaches to reach the 600 wins milestone ... He stepped down at the end of the 2014 season and now serves as associate head coach ... Escudero took over as head coach in 1977-78 after a decorated career as a student-athlete at Pepperdine ... On the court, he was a finalist at the 1969 WCAC singles tournament and won the doubles title with John Lovelace ... Pepperdine won conference titles in 1969 and 1970 and finished second the next two seasons ... His transition from player to coach was a successful one as Escudero has tutored 31 All-Americans, and was honored as WCC Coach of the Year on four occasions ... Escudero was inducted into the Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Oct. 20 , 2013.
2014 SEASON RECAP: The Pepperdine women's tennis team went 19-5 in 2014, winning both the West Coast Conference regular-season and tournament championships ... The Waves set a new program record with 15 consecutive wins ... The previous record was set at 14 consecutive dual match victories in 1999 ... Pepperdine ended the 2014 regular-season with a 9-0 record at home, marking just the second season in program history the Waves have gone undefeated at home in single year ... Lorraine Guillermo was an All-WCC first team selection in both singles and doubles ... Ale Granillo and Matea Cutura were All-WCC second team picks in singles and together in doubles ... Guillermo was joined by Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai as a first-team doubles honoree ... Michaela Capannolo and Yuki Chiang were also voted to the All-WCC second team in doubles and went on to reach the second round of the NCAA Doubles Championship.
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