Women’s Tennis Rolls into ITA Southern Regional

Thursday, October 10

Auburn, Ala.

Troy University

ITA Southern Regional

Women’s Tennis Rolls into ITA Southern Regional

10/9/2024 11:12:00 AM | Tennis (W)

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By: Troy Athletics Communications

TROY, Ala. – The fall schedule continues for Troy women's tennis at the ITA Southern Regional. The event starts on Thursday, Oct. 10, and runs through Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Yarbrough Tennis Center.

"The ITA Regional is always a special tournament and a great opportunity for the girls to compete at the highest level and against ranked players in our regional," head coach Rawia Elsisi said. "It's a great challenge, especially after finishing a very successful weekend at Samford."

The Trojans are set to square off against opponents from around the Southeast, including five SEC teams and familiar faces from the Sun Belt Conference in Louisiana, ULM, Southern Miss and South Alabama. Troy finished the 2023-24 season ranked seventh in the ITA Southern Regional rankings. Emilia Namyslo opens the regional in singles play at 9 a.m. on Thursday in the qualifying round.

Tournament Information
What: ITA Southern Regional
Where: Auburn, Ala. – Yarbrough Tennis Center
When: Thursday, Oct. 10 – Tuesday, Oct. 15
Who: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Louisiana, ULM, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, Southeastern Louisiana, North Alabama, Samford, McNeese State, Jacksonville State, Tulane, South Alabama

Lineup
Singles: Gabrielle Leslie, Leena Metwally, Hagar Ramadan-Amin, Maria Guirguis, Valeriia Avdeeva (alternate/qualifying), Emilia Namyslo (qualifying)

Doubles: Hagar Ramadan-Amin/Leena Metwally, Valeriia Avdeeva/Maria Guirguis, Gabrielle Leslie/Emilia Namyslo

Fresh Off Samford
The Trojans opened the season last weekend in Birmingham for the Samford Fall Invitational. In three days of competition, Troy went 13-4 in singles matches and 4-3 in doubles.

Gabrielle Leslie (3-0), Leena Metwally (3-0) and Valeriia Avdeeva (2-0) all went undefeated in singles play. Metwally went 5-0 overall in the invitational to lead the program, going 3-0 in singles with victories over Samford (6-2, 2-6, 10-3), Jacksonville State (6-2, 6-2) and Central Arkansas (6-1, 2-6, 10-4) and 2-0 in doubles. Leslie also won all three matches after an excellent spring, where she went 18-1 from line six.

Metwally and Hagar Ramadan-Amin went undefeated in doubles, building on a 2023-24 campaign in which they went undefeated in Sun Belt Conference doubles play. The pair routed Central Arkansas, 6-2, before battling to a 7-6 victory over Samford.