LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) – One of the nation's top individual tournaments returns as players from many of the elite college programs in the United States, including host UNLV, will gather in Las Vegas this weekend for the annual Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on campus.
Individual competitors will be supplied by teams that include half of the top dozen from the season's initial ITA rankings: No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Pepperdine, No. 8 UCLA and No. 11 Florida. Host UNLV is scheduled to provide eight singles players and four doubles teams.
Action begins with doubles each day at 10 a.m. PST on Friday and Saturday with the finals scheduled for Sunday. Admission to all matches is free. The event features two flights each of both singles and doubles along with consolation rounds.
Last year's event saw UCLA's 16th-ranked Ena Shibahara down her teammate, 119th-ranked Jada Hart, 6-2, 7-6, for the singles title while that same Bruins' duo, ranked seventh playing together, defeated No. 20 Vladica Babic and Sofia Blanco of Oklahoma State, 6-4, to earn the doubles title.
SCHEDULE OF PLAY
Friday
Doubles Round of 16 10:00 a.m.
Singles Round of 32 Follow
Singles Round of 16 Follow
Saturday
Doubles Quarterfinals 10:00 a.m.
Singles Quarterfinals Follow
Singles Semifinals Follow
Sunday
Doubles Semifinals 10:00 a.m.
Doubles Final Follow
Singles Final Follow
FREEMAN MEMORIAL ALL-TIME SINGLES CHAMPIONS
YEAR PLAYER SCHOOL
2018 Ena Shibahara UCLA
2017 Melissa Lord Stanford
2016 Hayley Carter North Carolina
2015 Jennifer Brady UCLA
2014 Ellen Tsay Stanford
2013 Sabrina Santamaria USC
2012 Zoe Scandalis USC
2011 Maria Sanchez USC
2010 Stacey Tan Stanford
2009 Irini Falconi Georgia Tech
2008 Amanda Fink USC
2007 No Champion (Inclement Weather)
2006 Celia Durkin Stanford
2005 Shadisha Robinson Georgia
2004 Theresa Logar Stanford
2003 Vilmarie Castellvi Tennessee
FREEMAN MEMORIAL ALL-TIME DOUBLES CHAMPIONS
YEAR PLAYERS SCHOOL
2018 Ena Shibahara/Jada Hart UCLA
2017 Jessie Aney/Hayley Carter North Carolina
2016 Hayley Carter/Whitney Kay North Carolina
2015 Caroline Doyle/Ellen Tsay Stanford
2014 Zoe Scandalis/Giuliana Olmos USC
2013 Sabrina Santamaria/Kaitlyn Christian USC
2012 Pamela Montez/Courtney Dolehide UCLA
2011 Maria Sanchez/Kaitlyn Christian USC
2010 Stacey Tan/Mallory Burdette Stanford
2009 Renata Kucerkova/Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State
2008 Jessica Nguyen/Whitney Deason Stanford
2007 No Champion (Inclement Weather)
2006 Alice Barnes/Anne Yelsey Stanford
2005 Daniela Bercek/Riza Zalameda UCLA
2004 Boglarka Berecz/Nina Suvak Florida
2003 Vilmarie Castellvi/Melissa Schaub Tennessee
