[ColoradoTree]

Ugh, sorry, I made a mistake earlier in the thread when I said Ma would have to beat 5th-seeded Kajuru of Oklahoma State to book her place at the NCAA singles championship later this fall, but that's not true--just making it to that match will be enough, as it would be a quarterfinal. 

For Ma to book her place, she'll need to beat the winner of UNC's Tatum Evans (unranked sophomore, but was a top recruit coming into last year and played on the 4-6 lines for the Heels last year) and #49 Katie Codd of Duke.

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And FWIW, Eleana Yu dropped her first round consolation match, 6-0, 6-4 to #63 Esha Velaga of Penn. I would imagine Yu came into this tournament hoping to make a splash and show that she was unfairly treated while at Stanford and she's exactly the player you would expect one of the top couple of US-based recruits in her class. She did not make such a splash. Looking at our current roster, I'd pencil her in as our #7 if Yepifanova participates or our #6 (above Houghton) if she doesn't, though most of you know my thoughts that I would have had her playing above Xu, so perhaps this would've been the year that Yu broke through. (Always tough to drop a senior from the lineup, though.) Entirely possible that she doesn't end up playing above #6 at Duke.

[ColoradoTree]

Ugh, sorry, I made a mistake earlier in the thread when I said Ma would have to beat 5th-seeded Kajuru of Oklahoma State to book her place at the NCAA singles championship later this fall, but that's not true--just making it to that match will be enough, as it would be a quarterfinal. 

For Ma to book her place, she'll need to beat the winner of UNC's Tatum Evans (unranked sophomore, but was a top recruit coming into last year and played on the 4-6 lines for the Heels last year) and #49 Katie Codd of Duke.

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And FWIW, Eleana Yu dropped her first round consolation match, 6-0, 6-4 to #63 Esha Velaga of Penn. I would imagine Yu came into this tournament hoping to make a splash and show that she was unfairly treated while at Stanford and she's exactly the player you would expect one of the top couple of US-based recruits in her class. She did not make such a splash. Looking at our current roster, I'd pencil her in as our #7 if Yepifanova participates or our #6 (above Houghton) if she doesn't, though most of you know my thoughts that I would have had her playing above Xu, so perhaps this would've been the year that Yu broke through. (Always tough to drop a senior from the lineup, though.) Entirely possible that she doesn't end up playing above #6 at Duke.