Breaking: Denver will play Auburn University during ITA Kickoff Weekend…
The No. 14-ranked women’s tennis team from Auburn University is getting ready to compete in order to earn a spot in the 2024 ITA Indoor National Team Championships. ITA Kickoff Weekend will see the Tigers play on the court in Durham, North Carolina.
On Saturday, January 27, 2024, the Auburn women’s team will play two games. The first matchup is against Denver today, and the second matchup is against either Duke or Princeton. The Tigers’ game against Denver is set for 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday, after Duke and Princeton play at 2 p.m. CT on Friday. The matches on Saturday at 3 p.m. CT will pit the victors of each single encounter against one another. The whole weekend, goduke.com will have live footage and live score updates from every game. In order to earn a spot in the Seattle Indoor Championships, Auburn hosted the ITA Kickoff Weekend the previous year and triumphed against UCSB and UCF.
Denver has a 2-0 record going into the weekend. No. 15 Duke University and Princeton, who are both 1-0, will be facing off.
While Princeton has a rated doubles team and a ranked singles player, No. 93 Madeleine Jessup, the Blue Devils have four ranked players, including No. 52 Katie Codd.
The hero of the Tigers’ final match against North Carolina was Selin Ovunc, who is rated 122nd in the US in singles. He defeated No.
41 Abbey Forbes on Saturday in Chapel Hill. Ovunc has a season record of 10-3 in doubles and 6-4 in singles going into the weekend.
What took place during the weekend
Last Saturday, Auburn lost 6-1 against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in their first doubleheader of the season.
With the victory, North Carolina’s record rises to 3-0, while Auburn’s falls to 0-1. Ariana Arsenault and Angella Okutoyi defeated Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig in doubles, taking the first set firmly. North Carolina triumphed on Courts 2 and 3 to claim the doubles point, although at one time in the match, the Auburn tandem was ahead four games to two, and by the end of play, they were ahead five games to four.
When it came to singles play, the Tigers started slowly, taking the first set. 122 No. In her court five encounter, Selin Ovunc easily defeated 41st-ranked Abbey Forbes 6-3 in the opening set. The Tar Heels subsequently took a 4-0 lead and sealed the match with back-to-back wins on courts one, three, and six.
Auburn’s first point of the match came via Ovunc’s unexpected 6-3, 7-5 victory over Forbes, making the score 4-1. On court four, Okutoyi battled back to send her second set into a tiebreaker after a challenging opening set, but Tanguilig prevailed in the end.
6-2, 7-6 (5), the seventh-ranked singles player in the country. Arseneault traded games with No. 5 Reese Brantmeier when the second set was deadlocked at five games apiece, forcing a tiebreaker. Arseneault emerged victorious in the tiebreaker 7–5, but was defeated 4-6, 7–6 (5), and 8–10.
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