Women's results
Men's results
ROME, Ga. — Xavier University of
Louisiana's
Lailaa Bashir won two singles matches Friday — including an upset of the No. 3
seed — to reach the semifinals of the ITA Cup tennis championships.
The sophomore won 6-2, 6-4 in the first round (round of 16)
against Nicole Christiansen of St. Francis (Ill.), then defeated third-seeded
Lisa Khamassi of Keiser 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
Bashir will play Georgia Gwinnett's second-seeded
Yalyzaveta Velykorodna, a freshman, at 9 a.m. EDT Saturday.
Bashir and
Angela Charles-Alfred, the defending champion
of ITA Cup NAIA and small college doubles, won 6-0, 6-1 in the round of 16 against
McPherson's Polina Khoroshevskaya and Erica Paradise. Bashir and Charles-Alfred will play
in the quarterfinals at 1 p.m. Saturday against unseeded Natasha Mesa and Maria Way of Tennessee Wesleyan.
The XULA women won 4-of-5 matches on the opening
day of the tournament.
Kyra Akinnibi was 5-all in the first set against No. 1 singles
seed Maria Genovese of Georgia Gwinnett before losing 7-5, 6-3, but Akinnibi
won 6-2, 6-0 in her first consolation match against Brenau's Peeraya Charoensirisutthikul.
The XULA men lost all three of their matches.
Third-seeded
Santiago Perez dropped both his singles matches, then Perez and
Shaikh Abdullah
lost to Georgia Gwinnett's top-seeded doubles team, Valentino Caratini and Federico Bonacia.