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Kawai Set to Compete at 2019 Oracle ITA Masters
September 25, 2019 | Women's Tennis
URBANA, Ill. – Junior Asuka Kawai has been invited to compete at the 2019 Oracle ITA Masters in Malibu, Calif., from Thursday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Sept. 29, as the highest-ranked returning player in the Big Ten Conference in the Top 125 Oracle ITA Final National Rankings, as of May 29, at No. 35.
The tournament will mark the first event Kawai will compete in since her appearance in the NCAA Singles Championships, where she made a historic run to the quarterfinals. Kawai was recently ranked No. 20 in the Top 125 Oracle ITA Pre-season Rankings.
The 2019 Oracle ITA Masters provides 31 automatic bids, and one Oracle Wild Card spot into the tournament to individuals that are the highest-ranking returning player within each NCAA Division I conference, as each conference is given one entry into the singles draw per gender.
The tournament will consist of mixed doubles matches Thursday (Sept. 26) through Saturday (Sept. 28), and both men's and women's singles matches all four days.
32 men and 32 women will participate in the mandatory mixed doubles competition and matches will be played as a six-game set with no additional scoring, single elimination, with the championship as an eight game pro-set. Singles will be played best two-of-three sets with no additional scoring, with a first match consolation bracket.
Seedings for singles will be determined by a players' Universal Tennis Ranking (UTR) from Sept. 23, while the seedings for mixed doubles will be determined by the combination of the two players' UTR from Sept. 23.
The men's and women's singles champions will earn an automatic bid into the Oracle ITA Fall National Championships in Newport Beach, Calif., from Nov. 6-10.
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