MALIBU, California – The defending NCAA runner-up Pepperdine women's tennis team, fresh off its first fall tournament, heads to Charleston, South Carolina for the ITA All-American Championships from October 4-10.
Pepperdine will send five players to the east coast:
Victoria Flores,
Janice Tjen,
Lisa Zaar,
Taisya Pachkaleva and
Shiori Fukuda. Zaar, Fukuda and Pachkaleva will compete in the singles qualifying round on October 4-5, while Flores and Tjen begin play in the singles main draw on Wednesday, October 6. The doubles pairs of Fukuda/Pachkaleva and Tjen/Flores start with main draw play on Wednesday, October 6 as well. The main draw runs from October 6-10.
The ITA All-American Championships are one of the premiere ITA-sanctioned fall tournaments in college tennis, bringing the best players in the country together for one competition. Participants in the All-American Championships can earn berths to the ITA National Fall Championships held in November in San Diego. The Waves have had success in this event before, with
Ashley Lahey winning the singles title in 2019. Luisa Stefani, recent participant in the 2021 US Open, and Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai were runner-ups in doubles at the 2016 event. In 1997, the doubles pair of Angela Lawrence and Sophia Zsuo claimed the doubles championship.
Follow the action @WavesTennis on Twitter and stay up to date with the event through the
ITA All-American headquarters on the ITA website.
