CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – This weekend, the Fighting Illini women's tennis team is headed to Fort Worth, Texas, for the TCU Invitational from Oct. 27-29. Action is slated to be outdoors at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
Seven Illini student-athletes are slated to compete in Texas, with Kate Duong and Kida Ferrari not making the trip.
Baylor, BYU, Kansas, Kansas State, Notre Dame, and TCU will all be represented, along with the Orange and Blue. Play will feature a hidden dual format. Doubles matches will be pro sets to 8 with tiebreakers at 7-7. Singles matches will feature super-tiebreakers for third sets.
Competition for Illinois will begin on Friday with doubles action at 1:30 against TCU and Baylor, immediately followed by seven players in singles action against a combination of TCU and Baylor athletes. At 5 p.m., one Illini doubles team will square off against Kansas State, with an Illinois individual to immediately follow facing a KSU competitor.
On Saturday at 10 a.m., Illinois will play four doubles matches against a combination of Kansas State and BYU tandems. Immediately after, all eight Illini singles players will face off against Kansas State and BYU players.
Sunday's action will commence at 9:30 a.m., when four Illinois duos face Kansas. Eight singles matches against the Jayhawks will immediately follow.
