Men's Tennis | 10/22/2015 10:20:00 AM
Women's Regional Championship Site | Men's Regional Championship Site ABILENE – The best collegiate tennis players from across Texas remain in the Lone Star State this week and next for the annual USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships.
The women's championship, hosted by Texas A&M at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center, begins Thursday morning, while the men's championship will be hosted by Rice's George R. Brown Tennis Complex starting Saturday. The singles and doubles champions from each of the main draws advance to face other regional winners across the country at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, Nov. 12-15, in Flushing, N.Y.
The women's singles draw consists of 109 competitors, including eight Wildcats whose first-round opposition features players from North Texas, SMU, Texas Tech and UT Arlington in addition to Southland rivals Lamar and Sam Houston State.
There are two rounds of singles and doubles scheduled for Thursday. The rounds of 32 and 16 will be contested Friday, quarterfinals and semifinals Saturday, and the championship matches Sunday.
ACU's doubles pairings for this weekend are
Kaysie Hermsdorf /
Whitney Williams,
Leah Davis /
Jordan Henry,
Lucile Pothier /
Erin Walker, and
Ansley Boarman /
Nada Marjanovic.
Pothier is off to a good start this fall with matching 5-1 singles and doubles records recorded at the Air Force and SMU Invitationals, where her doubles partner was Williams.
Eight individuals also will represent the Wildcats' men's team during their time in Houston. Highly touted freshman Joshua Sheehy received a No. 31 seed in the 93–competitor singles draw and first-round bye, while in doubles, he and junior
Nico Agritelley were seeded 13th among 42 combinations.
Sheehy's first singles opponent will be the winner between Lamar's Jeandre Hoogenboezem and Rice's David Warren. In doubles, he and Agritelley are scheduled to play Texas A&M freshmen Oscar Janglin and Kevin Lam in the second round.
Sheehy and Agritelley are 4-2 together this fall with their losses coming against nationally ranked competition from New Mexico (L, 6-4 to No. 29 Bart Van Leijsen / Hayden Sabatka) and Northwestern (L, 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 [4] to No. 43 Sam Shropshire and Alp Horoz).
Additional regional double pairings for the Wildcats are
Hunter Holman /
Cole Lawson,
Brad Gleason /
Sebastian Langdon,
Paul Domanski /
Marco Bensley, and
Jason Proctor /
Henry Adams.
First-round singles competition for ACU will come from Rice, SMU, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, UT Arlington and Southland schools Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Incarnate Word.
