Hawkeyes Prepare for ITA Regional Championships

Memphis, Tenn. – Six University of Iowa women’s tennis student-athletes are set to compete at the ITA Division I Central Regional Championships from Oct. 14-19 at the Leftwich Tennis Center in Memphis, Tenn.

All six Hawkeyes will compete in both singles and doubles, with Ida Clement, Emerey Gross, Clare Schaefer and Sally Xu beginning singles play on Thursday in the qualifying round, and Mia Soso and Emma Tothová represented in the main draw on Friday. Doubles play will feature the pairs of Soso and Gross, Clement and Tothová, and Schaefer and Xu.

Tothová competed in the Hoosier Invite and ended the tournament with a strong 2-1 record in singles, while Clement, Gross, and Schaefer all picked up their first Hawkeye wins at the same invite.

Memphis is just one of 13 regional sites where the regional tournaments will send 26 NCAA singles qualifiers and 13 doubles qualifiers to the NCAA Individual Championships in November.