FLUSHING, N.Y. – Fourth-year head women's tennis coach Hannah Fetters has announced that five players will be competing this weekend at the International Tennis Association (ITA) regionals in New York. The annual tournament will be held at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center just five days after the venue concluded its hosting of the U.S. Open last week.
The five-player group includes senior Nicole Mika (Staten Island, N.Y./Laurel Springs), freshman Karim Carreras (Asuncion, Paraguay/Colegio Bautista de Villa Morra), and a trio of graduate students in Ivana Andric (Griesheim, Germany), Gaayatri Shankar (Kochi, India/TocH Public School), and Lilia Rodriguez (Bayamon, Puerto Rico/Colegio Marista). With just two games played thus far, these five Chargers will use the ITA regionals to gain practice against some of the top competition in the Northeast and battle for spots to advance in the single-elimination tournament. A full recap of the weekend will be available at NewHavenChargers.com at the conclusion of the tournament.
THE FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
The Blue and Gold will play a 13-match schedule in the fall of 2021, their championship season in the NE10, hosting seven of those matches at the New Haven Tennis Courts. Having played a non-traditional spring schedule in 2021, the Chargers will return to a true regular season schedule in the fall with 10 conference matches before the NE10 playoffs in late October. The spring 2022 slate of games will be announced later this fall.
CHARGERS TABBED TO FINISH SIXTH IN NE10 PRESEASON POLL
Upon the release of the 2021 Preseason Coaches' Poll, New Haven was selected to finish sixth amongst the 11 teams in the conference receiving 56 points in the poll, just behind Southern New Hampshire (SNHU), who did not compete during the adjusted spring 2021 season due to limitations caused by the CoVID-19 Pandemic.
ANDRIC NAMED PROGRAMS FIRST ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA
Following the conclusion of the 2020-21 academic year, graduate Ivana Andric (Griesheim, Germany) was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team accolades in the at-large division. Andric, majoring in engineering and operations management, is the first women's tennis player to earn Academic All-America distinction in program history, while she is 20th player to earn the national academic accolade among all Charger teams.
UP NEXT
Following ITA's women's tennis will return to action Wednesday, hosting Post at the New Haven Tennis Courts, with first serve scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
