CARY, N.C. – The University of Notre Dame women’s tennis team saw five student-athletes head to Cary, North Carolina to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s All-American Championships last week. The Fighting Irish sent two doubles teams, as well as placing a competitor in the Qualifying Tournament of singles. Page Freeman was the Irish representative in singles action. The doubles pairings consisted of Julia Andreach and Carrie Beckman in the Main Draw and Rylie Hanford and Yashna Yellayi in Qualifying Doubles.
Andreach and Beckman were part of the Main Draw doubles tournament. The Irish defeated Eryn Cayetano and Emma Charney from USC, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-6 and advanced to take on a pair from NC State. Notre Dame’s duo would come up short, falling 6-4, 6-4 to Anna Zyryanova and Sophie Abrams.
Hanford and Yellayi took the court in the Qualifying Doubles round. The duo defeated Millie Bissett and Anna Arkadianou 8-2, before falling to Taylor Cataldi and Maria Sholokhova of Wisconsin, 8-6.
In singles, Freeman fell to North Carolina’s Elizabeth Scotty, 6-0, 6-3 in the qualifying singles round. Freeman couldn’t quite find her footing in Cary, falling to Miami’s Isabella Pfennig 7-5, 6-3 in the consolation round.