Nitu, Matteodo Highlight SE ITA Regional Trip

EDMOND, Okla. – Southeastern women's tennis was back in action with the doubles pairing of Chiara Matteodo and Vanessa Nitu highlighting the team's trip to the ITA Central Region Championships in Edmond, Okla.
 
The duo would make a run to the double semifinals in the B draw over the weekend, just missing the finals in a tiebreaker loss.
 
Matteodo and Nitu would open their tournament with an 8-6 win over Paige Stranghoner and Angelina Gnezdilova from Emporia State.
 
The pair would follow that up with an upset win over 5-8 seeded duo of Georgia Plunkett and Reka Pesci from Harding, taking the match 8-6 again.
 
That would move them to the quarter finals where Nitu and Matteodo would face third-seeded Karina Yurchenko and Akaya Koga from Central Oklahoma, handing them a 9-8 loss with an 8-6 win in the tiebreaker set.
 
Unfortunately, the duo's run would come to an end in the semifinals where they would fall to 5-8 seeded Sandra Mari Marti and Andrea Vargas from Northeastern State.
 
Southeastern will be back in tournament action Oct. 6-7 when it travels to Wichita Falls, Texas, for the Midwestern State Invitational.