ROME, Ga. - Xavier Women's Tennis stars Maja Brnic and Asadah Ma'at are in the Peach State this week for the ITA Cup, a premier collegiate tournament that brings together the top-ranked players in the nation.

The cup is a four-day tournament in which student-athletes from the NAIA, NCAA Division III, and junior college ranks compete in 16-entry, single-elimination brackets. 

Brnic entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Women's Open Singles bracket, while Ma'at and Brnic were seeded No. 3 in the Women's Open Doubles bracket.

In Women's Open Singles play, Brnic bested Javiera Verdugo of Lindsey Wilson in straight sets, 7-6(1) and 6-2. Verdugo recently finished as runner-up in the ITA Southeast Regional Championship. 

William Carey's Isabella Lechuaga Franco awaits Brnic in the quarterfinals on Friday at 8 a.m. CST. 

Ma'at and Brnic were even stronger in their opening-round match, defeating the Stanton (Calif.) duo of Romi Pols and Claudia Coombes, recent winners of the ITA's West Regional Championship, 6-2 and 6-1. 

Up next, the XULA pair will take on Tennessee Wesleyan's Ivet Prat and Ruslana Kovalenko in Friday's quarterfinal action.

Live stats for all Cup matches are available on the ITA website.