URBANA, Ill. - William and Mary juniors Maria Belaya and Jeltje Loomans recorded a win over a national top-10 foe in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tennis Doubles Championship on Thursday evening. Belaya and Loomans, who will have a chance to earn All-America honors with a win on Friday, downed the No. 10-ranked Auburn duo of Pleun Burgmans and Plamena Kurteva, 6-3, 6-4, at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Urbana, Ill.

The No. 13 nationally ranked Green and Gold duo raced out to a 3-0 advantage with a break in the second game of the opening set. The Auburn pair closed to within 4-3, before Belaya and Loomans took the final two games and the first set, 6-3. The Tribe tandem jumped out to an early break in the second set as well and road it to the 6-4 victory as Belaya served out the set.

Belaya and Loomans, who are competing in their second straight NCAA Doubles Championship, improved to 23-4 overall on the season and are an impressive 43-10 over the last two campaigns. The victory also marked the Green and Gold duo's eighth over nationally-ranked competition this season.

The Tribe pair will face the event's No. 3 seed Patricia Veresova and Mary Weatherholt from Nebraska, who are also ranked No. 3 nationally, in the round of 16 on Friday at 4 PM ET. Veresova and Weatherholt defeated the No. 34-ranked Georgia State team of Masa Grgan and Abigail Tere-Apisah in three sets, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (6), on Thursday to earn a spot in the next round.

The 2013 NCAA Championships are being hosted by the University of Illinois at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Urbana, Ill. Live scoring and video doubles event will be available on the Web at FightingIllini.com.