Oct. 24, 2015
Singles Main Draw
Doubles Main Draw
By Joanne Norell
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Top-seeded University of Notre Dame women’s tennis senior Quinn Gleason remains in the hunt for the ITA Midwest Regional singles championship, advancing to the Round of 16 after play on Saturday.
With a first-round bye, Gleason faced DePaul’s Rebeca Mitrea in the Round of 32, coming away with a 6-0, 6-4 victory. The 93rd-ranked Gleason will play Ohio State’s Sandy Niehaus, who is a 13-16 seed, when play resumes Sunday.
Junior Mary Closs and freshman Rachel Chong also picked up Round of 64 wins Saturday, as Closs upended Eastern Illinois’ Grace Summers, 6-0, 6-1, and Chong beat Illinois’ Jaclyn Switkes, 6-2, 6-4. Both Closs and Chong fell in their Round of 32 matches.
Earlier in the day, a pair of Irish doubles duos played in the Round of 16, but both fell. Brooke Broda and Chong lost to Illinois’ third-seeded Louise Kwong and Ines Vias, 8-1, and Closs and Allison Miller fell to Ohio State’s 5-8 seed Ferny Angeles Paz and Niehaus, 8-4.
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ITA Midwest Regional Championships
October 22-27, 2015
Varsity Tennis Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Saturday
Doubles Main Draw – Round of 16
[3] Louise Kwong / Ines Vias (UI) def. Brooke Broda / Rachel Chong (ND), 8-1
[5-8] Ferny Angeles Paz / Sandy Niehaus (OSU) def. Mary Closs / Allison Miller (ND), 8-4
Singles Main Draw – Round of 64
[1] No. 93 Quinn Gleason (ND), bye
[13-16] Allison Miller (ND), bye
Mary Closs (ND) def. Grace Summers (EIU), 6-0, 6-1
Rachel Chong (ND) def. Jaclyn Switkes (UI), 6-2, 6-4
Ferny Angeles Paz (OSU) def. Brooke Broda, 6-2, 6-3
Singles Main Draw – Round of 32
[1] No. 93 Quinn Gleason def. Rebeca Mitrea (DePaul), 6-0, 6-4
Marina Cozac (DePaul) def. [13-16] Allison Miller (ND), 6-4, 6-4
[5-8] Miho Kowase (OSU) def. Mary Closs (ND), 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
[4] Yuliya Shupenia (DePaul) def. Rachel Chong (ND), 6-2, 7-5
Friday
Doubles Main Draw – Round of 64
Brooke Broda / Rachel Chong (ND), bye
Mary Closs / Allison Miller (ND), bye
Doubles Main Draw – Round of 32
Brooke Broda / Rachel Chong (ND) def. Kate Fahey / Kara Hall (UM), 8-7(4)
Mary Closs / Allison Miller (ND) def. Barbare Eristavi / Ella Perinovic (WMU), 8-1
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Joanne Norell, athletics communications assistant at the University of Notre Dame, has been part of the Fighting Irish athletics communications team since 2014 and coordinates communications efforts for the Notre Dame women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and fencing programs. Norell is a 2011 graduate of Purdue University and earned her master’s degree from Georgetown University in 2013.