CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Two members of the University of Miami women’s tennis team will compete in the upcoming NCAA Singles Championship, while two pairs will take part in the NCAA Doubles Championship, as announced Tuesday evening.
Fifth-year senior Estela Perez-Somarriba garnered the second overall seed in the singles tournament, while freshman Isabella Pfennig earned a No. 9-16 seed. The duo will also compete together in the doubles tournament, as will second-year freshmen Diana Khodan and Maya Tahan.
Miami is one of 12 teams with multiple singles players in the field and one of seven—all of which are in the ACC—with two doubles pairs. The only six programs on both lists are Miami, Duke, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia.
Perez-Somarriba, who claimed the national title in 2019, is set to become the sixth Hurricane to play in the NCAA Singles Championship four times. In addition, she is just the 11th player in history to be a top-two seed in the field on multiple occasions and the sixth to be a top-three seed three times, as she held the No. 1 spot in 2019 and the No. 3 position in 2018.
Pfennig is one of just four true freshmen in the nation to receive a seed in the NCAA Singles Championship, alongside Syracuse’s Viktoria Kanapatskaya, Virginia’s Emma Navarro and Iowa’s Alexa Noel. She will be the 28th Miami player to compete in the event, including the first freshman since Perez-Somarriba in 2017.
By earning seeds in the tournament, both Perez-Somarriba and Pfennig have clinched ITA All-America status. For Perez-Somarriba, it is her fifth such honor, tied for third-most in program history. Miami, Georgia Tech and Virginia are the only teams with multiple seeded players.