UCLA to Host First and Second Round NCAA Matches
May 01, 2018 | Women's Tennis
LOS ANGELES โ The UCLA women's tennis team has been selected as the No. 12 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will host first and second round matches at Los Angeles Tennis Center on May 11-12, it was announced by the NCAA Selection Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
The Bruins, who are hosting a regional for the first time since 2015, are making their 37th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament dating back to the inaugural year of the tourney in 1982. UCLA is one of just three women's tennis programs to have competed in every NCAA tournament.
First and second-round competition takes place May 11-12 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 17-22. The event will be hosted by Wake Forest University.ย ย
UCLA will face off against Fresno State in the first round on May 11 at 1:00 p.m. The Bulldogs have posted a 12-12 record to this point in the season and enter NCAA play on a three-match winning streak after claiming the Mountain West Tournament Championship for the second time in program history.
The other two teams in the regional include No. 26 Baylor (17-13, 14th straight NCAA appearance) and No. 38 NC State (17-14). The second round matchup at LATC is slated for a 3:00 p.m. start on Saturday, May 12.
The Bruins enter the tourney with a 20-5 overall record, the squad's seventh 20-win year since 2007. UCLA won its final nine matches of the regular season and finished runner-up in the Pac-12 Conference.
The matches will be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket.
During the championships, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches. The complete list of teams and sites is included on the official bracket, which is available at www.ncaa.com.
Thirty-one conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships. UCLA was one of 31 teams to receive an at-large bid into the tournament.
For more information on the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, click here. ย
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— UCLA Women's Tennis (@uclawtennis) May 1, 2018
