@CanesWTennis Set for Bedford Cup, Riviera
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami women’s tennis team will have players in action from coast to coast this weekend.
Four players are set to make the drive up to Tampa, Fla., for the Bedford Cup, held at USF. Another quartet of Hurricanes will fly west for the prestigious Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Freshmen Dominika Paterova and Estela Perez-Somarriba will be joined by sophomores Ana Madcur, ranked No. 117, and Clara Tanielian at the Bedford Cup. Held Friday through Sunday, the tournament features players from 10 Division I schools in the state of Florida.
The Hurricanes were dominant at the 2015 Bedford Cup. Yolimar Ogando won the A Main Draw in both singles and doubles, while Madcur was the singles runner-up and Tanielian won the Singles A Back Draw. All four semifinalists in the Singles A Main Draw were Hurricanes, too.
Tanielian will be first on the court Miami Friday, taking on Sofia Ferding of Stetson at 10:30 a.m., in the Angelique Kerber Flight. At 1 p.m., Perez-Somarriba faces USF’s Vera Bessanova in the Steffi Graf Flight and Madcur meets FGCU’s Julia Ascua in the Billie Jean King Flight. Finally, at 3 p.m., Paterova is set to play Olivia Rolle of Florida A&M in the Lindsay Davenport Flight.
Additional information on the Bedford Cup is available on the event page HERE, including a link to the live results, which can be found HERE.
Redshirt senior Maci Epstein and junior Silvia Fuentes are in the pre-qualifying singles draw of the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships and will begin play Saturday.
Ogando, a redshirt sophomore ranked No. 32, is slotted for the qualifying singles draw and opens action Oct. 4, while junior Sinead Lohan is a main draw singles selection and will start competition Oct. 6. Overall, the tournament runs from Oct. 1-9, with a day off on Oct. 3 before the qualifying round begins.
Last year, Lohan, who is currently ranked fifth in the nation, became the second player in program history to reach the semifinals of the elite tournament and just the first to advance to the finals.
Fuentes will start the action for the Hurricanes in the Golden State, facing Old Dominion’s Borislava Botusharova Saturday at 1:30 p.m. ET. Epstein then meets No. 111 Ellyse Hamlin of Duke at 3:15 p.m. ET.
All tournament information can be found on the ITA event page HERE. Premium live video for main draw matches will be available HERE.
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FRIDAY SCHEDULE (Bedford Cup)
Angelique Kerber Flight – First Round
10:30 a.m.: Clara Tanielian (UM) vs. Sofia Ferding (STET)
Steffi Graf Flight – First Round
1 p.m.: Estela Perez-Somarriba (UM) vs. Vera Bessanova (USF)
Billie Jean King Flight – First Round
1 p.m.: No. 117 Ana Madcur (UM) vs. Julia Ascua (FGCU)
Lindsay Davenport Flight – First Round
3 p.m.: Dominika Paterova (UM) vs. Olivia Rolle (FAMU)
