SAN DIEGO – Four members of the Virginia women’s tennis team competed at the 2023 ITA National Fall Championships, being held November 1-5 at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, California.
Senior Hibah Shaikh topped No. 16 Irina Cantos Siemers of Ohio State to advance to the Round of 16 of the doubles draw, the highest-ranked win of her career, before falling on Thursday. Shaikh and grad student Natasha Subhash advanced to the second round of doubles before bowing out against the tournament’s No. 2 seed.
Junior Mélodie Collard and sophomore Annabelle Xu lost their first round doubles match but have advanced in the consolation doubles bracket.
The Championships are the grand finale to the fall collegiate tennis season and feature 64 of the nation’s top collegiate singles players (32 men and 32 women) and 64 of the nation’s top collegiate doubles teams (32 men’s teams and 32 women’s teams). The event is in its seventh and final year, having replaced the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships beginning in 2017. Next year, the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship will take its place on the tournament calendar.
Shaikh earned her spot in the singles draw as a finalist at the ITA Atlantic Regional. Shaikh and Subhash played in the…
