Rockets competing in the ITA Midwest regionals this week - Women at Michigan, Men at Illinois. Apparently, the Rockets started out strong in the singles qualifiers yesterday, where the women went 5-1 and the men 6-2.

Doubles start today as well as the singles main draws.

Have been trying to find the results from today's matches and UM's website is not good, but it looks like UT did pretty well today on the women's side:

Cassie Alcala won her singles over a player from OSU
Shalini Tallamaraju also won her singles over a player from NIU
both will continue play tomorrow.
UT's third singles player, Mariona Perez lost a 3-set match to a player from Northwestern.

In doubles, UT went 2-2, getting wins over Michigan State and EMU before losing to Northwestern and Illinois.

Haven't looked for the men's results yet.

And just after I posted that, UT releases a story on the women's performance:
https://utrockets.com/news/2022/10/21/wo...onals.aspx

According to a tweet from UT, this is the 1st time any Rocket has advanced past the 1st round in this event.

The Ladies run at the ITA event came to an end, as Tallamaraju lost to a Northwestern player, and Alcala lost a 3 set match to a player from UM.

The men Olivero and Galic lost to players from Michigan and Notre Dame respectively.

Sornlaksup had a big day though, winning two matches with ease over players from Northwestern and Illinois. He's now into the round of 16 where he plays the number 3 seed from UM this morning. Just looked at the draw and he is the only non-B10 player in the round of 16.

Women's tennis has started out the season with some solid play. They are 7-1 with two wins this weekend on the road over UIC and DePaul. Their only loss was 5-2 to Michigan State. Their top 2 players, Alcala and Teske have not lost yet. They play Purdue in a couple weeks, and then have a Florida trip before MAC play starts.

The Men are also doing well, at 5-2 with their only losses to #2 Ohio State and Indiana. Sornlaksup is undefeated so far this year - he won his match against Indiana, but his match against OSU went unfinished.

Ukrainian tennis player finds safety at University of Toledo

https://www.wtol.com/amp/article/news/lo...40eb4c3936

Men and Women both played Purdue over the weekend, with the women losing 1-6 and the men winning 5-2,

Always good to get a B10 win, but Purdue appears to be very bad on the men's side, as they had already lost to 2 other MAC schools.

Development in MAC tennis as Ball State has placed their women's tennis coach on administrative leave pending an investigation.

https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sport...949663007/

BSU has won the MAC the last 2 years, and last year squeaked by UT 4-3 in the championship match.

Ladies are ranked 74th in the nation this week! Last year, they got their 1st national ranking at #75 (75 teams make the rankings) so this is a new program high.

Men's tennis added to the historic weekend, opening MAC play by beating nationally ranked Ball State 4-3.

UT's #1 player, Pawit Sornlaksup remains undefeated on the season, at a perfect 10-0.

UT women moved up from 74 to #58 in the national rankings!!!! WOW.

On their spring break trip, they beat Louisiana Tech and (then) #70 FGCU, but lost to USF. Strangely now, UT is ranked one spot ahead of USF, and FGCU moved up to #67. They are computer rankings and I don't know the algorithm, but the win over FGCU most have really helped. The only other ranked team they have played this year is Purdue, in a match they lost 1-6.

Keep it up during MAC play, Rockets.