LYNCHBURG, Va. – William & Mary women's tennis competed at the ITA Atlantic Region Championship over the weekend.
 
Graduate student Yu Chen and junior Hedda Gurholt advanced to the second round of the main singles draw before falling to seeded players. In doubles, juniors Alessandra Anghel and Emma Fernald won their first match, but fell in a competitive second-round contest with a nationally-ranked team.
 
Fernald opened the tournament by splitting her matches in the qualifying singles draw. She defeated George Mason's Lauren Splett, 6-1, 6-2, before falling to Delaware's Maryia Hrynashka in three sets.
 
In doubles, Anghel and Fernald knocked off the Howard team of Selah Stibbins and Sifa Butcher, 8-4, in the opening round. The Green and Gold tandem battled tough with the No. 50-ranked team in the country of ODU's Alexandra Viktorovich and Sofia Johnson before falling 8-5.
 
Gurholt and Chen notched straight-sets, opening-round wins in the main singles draw. Gurholt downed Liberty's Maria Tuchetto, 6-3, 6-1, while Chen upended Virginia Tech's Tamara Barad Itzhaki, 7-5, 6-2. It was Gurholt's team-leading sixth win and Chen's third of the fall.
 
Chen's run came to an end against No. 3 seed Natasha Subhash of Virginia, who is also ranked No. 43 nationally. Gurholt dropped a tough three-set contest with No. 10-seeded Kallista Liu of Maryland.
 
After dropping her opening-round match in the main singles draw, Anghel posted a consolation victory over VCU's Yelizaveta Karlova, 6-3, 6-4, for her fifth win of the fall.

Up Next
The Tribe wraps up the fall season at the Liberty Invitational, Nov. 3-5.
 
W&M Results from the ITA Atlantic Region Championship
Main Doubles Draw First Round (64)
Bendetti/Garofolo-Ro (Georgetown) def. #11 Gurholt/Chen (W&M) – 8-2
Anghel/Fernald (W&M) def. Stibbins/Butcher (Howard) – 8-4
 
Main Doubles Draw Second Round (32)
#4 Viktorovich/Johnson (ODU) [50] def. Anghel/Fernald (W&M) – 8-5
 
Qualifying Singles First Round (64)
#6 Emma Fernald (W&M) def. Lauren Splett (Mason) – 6-1, 6-2
 
Qualifying Singles Second Round (32)
Maryia Hrynashka (Delaware) def. #6 Emma Fernald (W&M) – 6-2, 3-6, 10-5
 
Main Singles Draw First Round (64)
#9 Esther Lovato (Liberty) def. Alessandra Anghel (W&M) – 6-3, 6-4
Hedda Gurholt (W&M) def. Maria Tuchetto (Liberty) – 6-3, 6-1
Yu Chen (W&M) def. Tamara Barad Itzhaki (Virginia Tech) – 7-5, 6-2
 
Main Singles Draw Second Round (32)
#10 Kallista Liu (Maryland) def. Hedda Gurholt (W&M) – 6-0, 3-6, 6-2
#3 Natasha Subhash (Virginia) [43] def. Yu Chen (W&M) – 6-2, 6-0
 
Main Singles Draw Consolation
Alessandra Anghel (W&M) def. Yelizaveta Karlova (VCU) – 6-3, 6-4