No.2 Stanford University women’s tennis team beat Maryland 4-0 at the ITA Kickoff Weekend, earning a spot at the ITA National Championships in February, which will be held in Seattle.
Stanford, which has won 103 of its last 109 matches at Taube Family Tennis Stadium, secured its third consecutive appearance at the ITA Indoors and will seek its first tournament title since 2011
🎟️👊#GoStanford x #ITAKickoff pic.twitter.com/spmcjcbkJA
— Stanford Women’s Tennis (@StanfordWTennis) January 28, 2024
Cardinals won five first sets in singles and its lead jumped from 1-0 to 3-0 in short order, with Yepifanova winning 6-1, 6-0 on three and Hui winning 6-0, 6 -2 out of five. Needing just one more win to close out the match, Alexis Blokhina played on court four, resulting in a 6-3, 6-2 victory.
Stanford defeated Terps in doubles, with Connie Ma and Alexandra Yepifanova winning on court two, 6-0, and Katherine Hui and Valenxia Xu on court three, 6-1.
Another Win 🔥
Stanford is headed to the 2024 ITA Division I Women’s Team Indoor Championships! #WeAreCollegeTennis | #ITAKickoff pic.twitter.com/nlkGcx4jaU
— ITA (@ITA_Tennis) January 28, 2024
Women’s singles
1) Minorka Miranda (UMD) led the no. 48 Angelica Blake (STAN) 7-5, 2-2, disqualified2) No. 11 Connie Ma (STAN) beat Kallista Liu (UMD) 6-2, 3-3, disqualified3) No. 49 Alexandra Yepifanova (STAN) d. Mary Brumfield (UMD) 6-1, 6-04) No. 64 Alexis Blokhina (STAN) d. Maria Budin (UMD) 6-3, 6-25) Katherine Hui (STAN) d. Diya Challa (UMD) 6-3, 6-26) Number 50 Valencia Xu (STAN) preceded Ela Platenikova (UMD) 6-2, 5-2, disqualified
Women’s doubles
1) Number 27 Angelica Blake/Alexis Blokhina (STAN) preceded Maria Budin/Minorka Miranda (UMD) 4-3, disqualified2) No. 28 Connie Ma/Alexandra Yepifanova (STAN) d. Ela Platenikova/Diya Challa 6-03) Katherine Hui/Valencia Xu (STAN) d. Mary Brumfield/Kallista Liu 6-1
We recall Stanford is a private university located in California, in the county of Santa Clara, about sixty kilometers south of San Francisco, close to the city of Palo Alto. Stanford University opened its doors in 1891, after six years of planning, by the will of benefactors Jane and Leland Stanford who had decided to found a university to educate California boys in memory of their son, who died of typhus in Florence.The university is also home to the SLAC particle accelerator.Stanford hosts Stanford Stadium on its campus and has sports teams, called Varsity.