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10/22/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
DURHAM, N.C.?The Duke University women's tennis team resumes its fall schedule this weekend in the annual Wilson/ITA Regional Championships hosted by Wake Forest University. The Blue Devils have six players featured in the main draw singles event and two doubles teams in the main draw.
Reka Zsilinszka, Ellah Nze, Amanda Granson, Melissa Mang, Elizabeth Plotkin, and Jessi Robinson all will compete in the singles main draw. Granson and Zsilinszka and Robinson and Nze will be the two doubles pairs for the Blue Devils.
The matches kick off on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 8 a.m., at Wake Forest's Leighton Stadium and continue through Monday, Oct. 27. Results will be available on www.GoDuke.com as they become available during the weekend.
Duke looks to continue the success it in 2007 at as the team of Granson and Mang captured the doubles title and Zsilinszka and Nze advanced to the title match in the singles draw. Duke had five players overall advance to the quarterfinal round in singles in 2007.
Nze is the Blue Devils' top seeded player headed into the five-day event, earning the No. 3 spot in the bracket. The 18th-ranked player nationally, Nze is 3-2 overall this season with two of her losses coming to the No. 5 and No. 6 ranked players. She will take on Elizaveta Zaytseva of Winthrop in the opening round.
Zsilinszka is right behind her as the fourth seed and will match up against Ida Hadziselemovic of Clemson in the opening contest. Ranked 17th in the nation, she is 2-3 after the first two tournaments of the fall season.
Granson enters the weekend as the ninth seed, while Mang, Elizabeth Plotkin, and Jessi Robinson round out the Duke contingent in the main draw. Granson is 8-3 overall on the year after a successful week of play at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championship. She defeated five nationally-ranked players during her run, including No. 36 Lauren Liu of Northwestern. Mang sports a 1-3 mark, while Plotkin and Robinson are 0-2 and 1-3, respectively.
Both doubles pairs will be playing together for the first time this season. Robinson and Nze joined forces two other times in their careers, going 1-1 overall, while Granson and Zsilinszka are matched up for the first time.
Duke closes out its fall schedule in November at the ITA National Indoors on Nov. 6-9 and the Duke-UNC Invitational from Nov. 7-9.
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