MADISON, Wis. – Senior Ava Markham of the Wisconsin women’s tennis team has been selected as an at-large singles competitor in the NCAA Championships.
Markham is the first Badger since 2016 to compete as an individual at the NCAA Championships.
The three-time All-Big Ten honoree has posted a 16-6 record in singles matches this season at the No. 1 position. Markham has gone 7-2 in conference matchups and is 3-5 against nationally ranked opponents.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 17-20. All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
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