CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Fighting Illini women's tennis saw its duo of Megan Heuser and Kate Duong selected to the NCAA Doubles Championship, announced on Tuesday by the NCAA. The Illinois tandem is one of 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2023 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships.

Heuser and Duong have compiled a 24-5 across the 2022-23 campaign when working together. The duo climbed as high as No. 7 in the ITA Doubles rankings and are No. 20 in the latest rankings. Heuser and Duong own a 4-2 record against ranked opponents already on the campaign.

The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 17- 20. This year's event will be conducted jointly with the NCAA Divisions II and III Men's and Women's Tennis Championships and hosted by the University of Central Florida and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission.

Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, with a minimum of four matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

Heuser and Duong are the fifth doubles duo in Illinois program history to earn a bid into the NCAA Doubles Championships. The last Illini duo to make the NCAA Doubles Championship was Melissa Kopinski and Rachael White in 2013. This season, the tandem became the highest ranked doubles duo in Illini history.