SAN DIEGO – Top seed Fiona Crawley continued her winning ways on Friday with a straight-set victory to reach the main draw singles semifinals at the 2022 ITA Fall National Championships from Barnes Tennis Center.
Crawley has yet to drop a set in three matches this week. Friday it was 6-3, 6-3, victory over No. 58 Mary Stoiana of Texas A&M. The San Antonio native will face ACC foe Carol Lee of Georgia Tech on Saturday with the winner advancing to Sunday’s championship match.
At the other end of the bracket, Carolina’s Abbey Forbes and Carson Tanguilig were upended in their quarterfinal matches against Princeton’s No. 3 Daria Frayman and Stanford’s second seeded Connie Ma, respectively.
In the singles consolation bracket, Anika Yarlagadda cruised past UCLA’s Kimmi Hance, 6-0, 6-2, and will now take on Marlee Zein of Texas in a semifinals match on Saturday.
In doubles, No. 2 seed Crawley and Tanguilig will face Delaware’s Adel-Byanu Abidullina and Eliza Askarova in a doubles match that is scheduled for Friday at 5 p.m. ET.
Crawley is now two wins shy of adding her name to an impressive list of previous winners from Carolina’s program. Jamie Loeb was the first to capture the singles championship back in 2013 and was later joined in consecutive seasons by title winners Sara Daavettila in 2019 and Alexa Graham in 2020.
Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay won the doubles event in 2015 and last fall Crawley and Elizabeth Scotty brought the trophy back to Chapel Hill in 2021.
All of the action from the 2022 ITA Fall National Championships will be streamed on the Cracked Racquets YouTube Page. Links to the live streams can be found on the Event Page.
ITA Fall National Championships
Singles Main Draw
Round of 32 – Wednesday, Nov. 2
[1] #21 Fiona Crawley (UNC) def. Daria Kuczer (TENN) 6-2, 6-3
[5-8] #16 Carol Lee (GT) def. Anika Yarlagadda (UNC) 6-7 (1), 7-6 (4), 6-4
[3] #15 Abbey Forbes (UNC) def. #74 Malaika Rapolu (Texas) 6-2, 7-5
[5-8] #28 Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. Lillian Gabrielsen (MISS) 6-3, 6-0
Round of 16 – Thursday, Nov. 3
[1] #21 Fiona Crawley (UNC) def. Taylor Melville (Denver) 6-3, 6-0
[3] #15 Abbey Forbes (UNC) def. Sydni Ratliff (OSU) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
[5-8] #28 Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. Deniz Khazan (Barry) 3-6, 6-3, 6-0
Quarterfinals – Friday, Nov. 4
[1] #21 Fiona Crawley (UNC) def. #58 Mary Stoiana (TAMU)…
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