CARY, N.C.– Four members of the Virginia women’s tennis team competed in the Fall Ranked Spotlight tournament, being held Sept. 22-25 at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
Grad student Julia Adams, juniors Hibah Shaikh and Sara Ziodato and freshman Annabelle Zu all competed as individuals in the tournament.
The tournament has two 32-player singles compass draws featuring players from Arizona State, Auburn, Duke, ETSU, Kansas, Miami, Michigan, North Carolina, NC State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Princeton, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, UCF, USC and Virginia will be competing. Each team will provide a maximum of four singles players and two doubles teams, with at least two preseason-ranked singles players and one ranked doubles team.
Adams, the No. 15 seed in the tournament, competed in the A1 singles draw.
Ziodato and Xu played in the A2 singles draw.
In singles, Adams, Ziodato, and Xu each lost their opening matches, falling into the consolation bracket of their respective draws. Ziodato and Xu closed out the tournament by winning three straight singles matches to go 3-1 on the weekend.
Adams dropped her showdown with No. 2 Sarah Hamner of South Carolina on Friday to drop into the A1 back draw. On Saturday, Adams picked up a win against No. 17 Kari Miller of…
