Monday, May 20
Orlando, FL
1 PM
Florida Gators
vs
NCAA Individual Championships
Sophomore McCartney Kessler will compete in both singles and doubles.
Individual NCAA Championship Field Set for Women’s Tennis
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Sophomores McCartney Kessler and Victoria Emma will represent the Gators at season-ending event.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships draws were released Sunday afternoon and University of Florida women's tennis players McCartney Kessler and Victoria Emma are set to represent the Gators in the season-ending event that runs May 20-25.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. The University of Central Florida and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission will serve as hosts. Live stats will be available for all matches and live video for matches not featured on the Tennis Channel will be available.
Kessler will compete in the 64-player singles competition and pair up with Emma in the 32-team doubles tournament.
No. 30 Kessler, making her first appearance in the event, will take on UCLA's Elysia Bolton (No. 32) in the opening round on Monday, May 20 at 1 p.m. ET. In doubles, No. 25 Kessler and Emma have drawn Gabby No. 4 Andrews and Ayan Broomfield of UCLA and are set to battle the Bruin combo in first round action on Tuesday, May 21.
Singles Draw (PDF) | Doubles Draw (PDF)
Earning All-SEC status for the second time in as many seasons, Kessler finished with the second most dual match wins on the team (13) and rounded into form late, winning her last four matches overall. The Calhoun, Ga. native compiled nine wins over ranked opponents, including two in UF's NCAA Tournament appearance.
Kessler and Emma paired together to form Florida's No. 1 doubles team during the dual match season and posted seven SEC victories. The duo has appeared in the ITA top 100 on four occasions, surging to as high as No. 25 in the most recent issue. The tandem has registered four top 100 wins, including two victories against top 10 foes. The duo defeated the nation's No. 1 doubles team in Mia Horvit and Ingrid Gamarra Martins of South Carolina at the SEC Tournament.
As a freshman Emma competed in the NCAA doubles tournament a season ago alongside three-time All-American Anna Danilina. Emma and Danilina fell in a heartbreaker to No. 14 Vladica Babic and Sofia Blanco State, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Bolton, who enters the match with ITA ranking just a few spots above Kessler at No. 32, posted a 16-7 overall mark during the dual match season and was tabbed the Pac-12's Freshman/Newcomer of the Year.
Andrews and Broomfield, both seniors, tout a No. 4 ITA doubles rank and posted a 10-4 mark playing together during the dual match season. Broomfield garnered All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention acclaim earlier this month.
Kessler and Broomfield met at the Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at UNLV in January and the Florida sophomore posted a 6-3, 6-3 win.
Both UF's bids were of the at large variety.
The Gators have produced four NCAA Singles Champions (1988, 1992, 1993 and 1996) and five NCAA Doubles Champions (1991, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2016).
Note: Sophomore Ida Jarlskog was selected for the event but will not play as she returned home to compete in Sweden for the summer.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Match Info
Monday, May 20 (Singles First Round) | Tuesday, May 21 (Doubles First Round)
Live stats
Live stream
Singles Draw (PDF)
Doubles Draw (PDF)
Twitter updates
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The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. The University of Central Florida and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission will serve as hosts. Live stats will be available for all matches and live video for matches not featured on the Tennis Channel will be available.
Kessler will compete in the 64-player singles competition and pair up with Emma in the 32-team doubles tournament.
No. 30 Kessler, making her first appearance in the event, will take on UCLA's Elysia Bolton (No. 32) in the opening round on Monday, May 20 at 1 p.m. ET. In doubles, No. 25 Kessler and Emma have drawn Gabby No. 4 Andrews and Ayan Broomfield of UCLA and are set to battle the Bruin combo in first round action on Tuesday, May 21.
Singles Draw (PDF) | Doubles Draw (PDF)
Earning All-SEC status for the second time in as many seasons, Kessler finished with the second most dual match wins on the team (13) and rounded into form late, winning her last four matches overall. The Calhoun, Ga. native compiled nine wins over ranked opponents, including two in UF's NCAA Tournament appearance.
Kessler and Emma paired together to form Florida's No. 1 doubles team during the dual match season and posted seven SEC victories. The duo has appeared in the ITA top 100 on four occasions, surging to as high as No. 25 in the most recent issue. The tandem has registered four top 100 wins, including two victories against top 10 foes. The duo defeated the nation's No. 1 doubles team in Mia Horvit and Ingrid Gamarra Martins of South Carolina at the SEC Tournament.
As a freshman Emma competed in the NCAA doubles tournament a season ago alongside three-time All-American Anna Danilina. Emma and Danilina fell in a heartbreaker to No. 14 Vladica Babic and Sofia Blanco State, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Bolton, who enters the match with ITA ranking just a few spots above Kessler at No. 32, posted a 16-7 overall mark during the dual match season and was tabbed the Pac-12's Freshman/Newcomer of the Year.
Andrews and Broomfield, both seniors, tout a No. 4 ITA doubles rank and posted a 10-4 mark playing together during the dual match season. Broomfield garnered All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention acclaim earlier this month.
Kessler and Broomfield met at the Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at UNLV in January and the Florida sophomore posted a 6-3, 6-3 win.
Both UF's bids were of the at large variety.
The Gators have produced four NCAA Singles Champions (1988, 1992, 1993 and 1996) and five NCAA Doubles Champions (1991, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2016).
Note: Sophomore Ida Jarlskog was selected for the event but will not play as she returned home to compete in Sweden for the summer.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Match Info
Monday, May 20 (Singles First Round) | Tuesday, May 21 (Doubles First Round)
Live stats
Live stream
Singles Draw (PDF)
Doubles Draw (PDF)
Twitter updates
FOLLOW THE GATORS
SOCIAL: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: #GoGators
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