One Singles Player, One Doubles Pair Advance Past Opening Rounds of Riviera/ITA Pre-Quals

Saturday, September 29

Malibu, Calif.

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Pepperdine University

Riviera/ITA All-American Championships

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One Singles Player, One Doubles Pair Advance Past Opening Rounds of Riviera/ITA Pre-Quals

9/29/2018 8:11:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine women's tennis team opened the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships pre-qualifying round at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center on Saturday and the Waves had one singles player and one doubles pair advance to day two of the tournament.

Adrijana Lekaj highlighted the day by winning both of her matches in the day, including a two-set win over #93 Asuka Kawai of Illinois to advance. Lekaj is now 2-1 against nationally ranked foes.

RESULTS
Pre-Qualifying Rounds
Singles
64: Adrijana Lekaj (PEPP) def. Maria Linares (Kansas State0 – 6-1, 3-0, withdraw
64: Jessica Failla (PEPP) def. Chandler Carter (Wake Forest) – 7-5, 6-4
64: #7 (new/fresh) Anastasia Iamachkine (PEPP) def. Chiara Tomasetti (NAU) – 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
64: #8 (new/fresh) Martina Capurro Taborda (Oklahoma) def. #120 Dzina Milovanovic (PEPP) – 6-3, 6-4
32: Adrijana Lekaj (PEPP) def. #93 Asuka Kawai (Illinois) – 6-3, 7-5
32: #10 (new/fresh) Emmanouela Antonakis (Miss. State) def. Jessica Failla (PEPP) – 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
32: #122 Anna Vrbenska (Ole Miss) def. Anastasia Iamachkine (PEPP) – 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

Doubles
32: Jessica Failla/Anastasia Iamachkine (PEPP) def. Michaela Haet/Linda Huang (RICE) – 8-6
32: Akanksha Bhan/Paulina Ferarri (Columbia) def. Dzina Milovanovic/Adrijana Lekaj (PEPP) – 8-5

Consolation Singles
1: #120 Dzina Milovanovic (PEPP) def. Ariana Rahmanparast (FSU) – 7-5, 6-3

TOMORROW'S MATCH-UPS
Pre-Qualifying Rounds
Singles
16: Adrijana Lekaj (PEPP) vs. #9 (new/fresh) Tijana Spasojevic (Texas) – TBD

Doubles
16: Jessica Failla/Anastasia Iamachkine (PEPP) vs. Shweta Sangwan/Julia Eshet (Oregon) – 10 a.m.

RIVIERA/ITA ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
This is the 34^th-consecutive year of the tournament that invites the nation's top Division I women's players to compete. In addition to vying for the All-American national title, players will be competing to secure a berth into the 2018 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which takes place November 7-11, in Surprise, Ariz. Singles quarterfinalists, consolations singles champion and finalist, along with doubles semifinalists and consolation doubles champion and finalist advance to the end of fall national championship.

COVERAGE
In addition to live tweets available for Pepperdine matches on Twitter, @WavesTennis, Pepperdine will be providing live stream coverages on the upper courts 1-6. Link: gowav.es/TEN1819LS.

NEXT UP
Next, the Waves will continue with the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships. After hosting the prequalifying rounds in Malibu from September 29-October 1, the Waves make the short trip to Pacific Palisades, Calif. for the qualifying round and main draw.

FOLLOW
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