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VILLANOVA, Pa. — The Villanova women’s tennis team will conclude its fall season with ITA Regionals this weekend in Princeton, N.J. The Regional tournament will begin on Thursday, October 15, and run through Tuesday the 20th. 

The Wildcats will take part in the Northeast portion of the whole ITA competition, which is divided into 13 different sections. The Northeast portion will host teams from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland.

In the specific Northeast section, the ‘Cats will have three players compete in singles across the two brackets. Olivia Corcoran is the lone player for Villanova in the main singles, while Bella De Luise and Anne Moody enter from the qualifying singles. 

For Corcoran, she will open against Savannah Cohen from Rutgers in the Round of 64. If she advances, she will face the winner between Columbia’s Michelle Li and Penn State’s Maelie Monfils. 

In the qualifying singles, De Luise will open against Columbia’s Isabelle Sobee Oak before potentially taking on the winner of Lehigh’s Marguax Devual and Stony Brooks’s Mia Balladino. Moody will open the tournament against Fordham’s Paola Uneo Dalmonico before facing the winner of Mercyhurst’s Kateryna Kryuchkova and Penn’s Elizabeth Tkachenko match, if Moody wins.

In doubles, there is only one section, with VU fielding two pairs. Bella De Luise and Anne Moody team up for one of the pairs while Olivia Kutlova and Olivia Corcoran combine for the other pair.

Starting with De Luise and Moody, they will open the tournament in the Round of 64 against the pair of Velaga and Schlepphrost from Penn. If they win, they will then face the winner between Temple’s pair of Andreoni and Christoforidou and Penn State’s pair of Zink and Baldi.

For the duo of Olivias, they will open up against Rutgers’ duo of Case and Karki before potentially taking on the winner of Wagner’s pair of Madail Perez and Staite and Columbia’s Krishan and Lin.

Be on the lookout for individual scores on our website as well as recaps from this weekend’s action or follow along on ITA’s website.