ROME, Ga. – The No. 15 nationally ranked Gustavus Adolphus College women's tennis team has multiple student-athletes competing in the ITA Cup this week. On the second day of the national tournament on Friday,
Karina Elvestrom upset the No. 1 seed in the singles draw to punch her ticket to the semifinals.
Singles
Elvestrom, the three-time ITA Midwest Regional Singles Champion and No. 73 ranked singles player in the nation at the end of last year, battled Tina She of the Amherst College Mammoths, the No. 1 seed in the singles championship bracket and most recently ranked No. 4 in the nation, in the singles quarterfinals in the morning.
The Gustie junior leapt out to a 6-4 first-set win to go up 1-0 in the match. The Mammoth junior responded by taking the second set 6-1 to even the match up at one set each. In the third set, Elvestrom fought and emerged victorious with a 6-3 set win to complete the 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 upset against She to advance to the national semifinals.
Doubles
The Gustie duo of Elvestrom and
Rory Wahlstrand took on No. 3 Eleanor Archer and Caitlin Bui of the Washington University in St. Louis Bears in the afternoon.
Elvestrom and Wahlstrand dropped the first et 6-3 but rallied for a 7-5 win in set two. In the super tiebreaker, the Gusties played the Bears evenly to a 7-7 tie score, but then Archer and Bui took three points in a row to win the breaker and take the match 6-3, 5-7, (10-7).
Up Next
Day three of the ITA Cup takes place on Saturday, October 17. Elvestrom will face off against WashU's Bui, the No. 4 seed in the championship tournament, in the singles semifinals as one of the final four.
