No. 16 USC Women’s Tennis Heads to Seattle for ITA National Team Indoor Championships

LOS ANGELES – The No. 16 USC women's tennis team, who earned a spot in the upcoming ITA National Team Indoor Championships (Feb. 9-12), will face No. 1 seed Texas during the first round of competition on Friday, Feb. 10 at 3:30 p.m. The match will be played at the Nordstrom Tennis Center on the University of Washington's campus.

Friday's match will be live streamed here, with Cracked Racquets also providing coverage on their YouTube page. The full schedule of play and draw can be found here.

USC punched their ticket to the championships following a pair of wins at the Knoxville, Tenn. ITA Kickoff Weekend. The Women of Troy defeated No. 21 Miami (4-2) and No. 17 Tennessee (4-2), to punch their ticket to Seattle.

This marks USC's first time at the ITA Indoor Championships since 2022, when the Trojans fell to the top-seeded Longhorns 4-1 in the first round of competition.

RANKINGS:
The Women of Troy enter this week ranked No. 16 in the country (ITA Coaches Poll, Jan. 31). USC boasts five Trojans in the national singles rankings, with sophomore Emma Charney leading USC in a career best ranking of No. 20. Trojan redshirt junior Snow Han locked in the No. 52 ranking, while senior Naomi Cheong secured the No. 90 rank.   USC fifth-year Eryn Cayetano sits at No. 95, while junior Grace Piper checked in at No. 103.

The Women of Troy also boast two ranked duos in No. 15 Cayetano and Charney, and No. 52 Parker Fry and Grace Piper.

SO FAR THIS SEASON:
The Women of Troy opened the 2024 season with a pair of home dual matches, defeating LMU (7-0) and UC Irvine (4-0) during a season-opening doubleheader on January 18.

USC then hit the road for ITA Kickoff Weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., defeating No. 21 Miami (4-2) and No. 17 Tennessee (4-2).

Following a fantastic kickoff weekend, Trojan sophomore Emma Charney was named the Pac-12 Women's Tennis Player of the Week. Charney went undefeated in singles and doubles in Knoxville and delivered both clinchers.

USC traveled south on Saturday, Feb. 3, for a dual against No. 20 San Diego. The No. 16 ranked Women of Troy won three singles matches against the Toreros, but ultimately fell 4-3 to USD, dropping to 4-1 on the season.

NEW ADDITIONS:
USC welcomed two midseason additions with the arrival of freshman Immi Haddad (London, England) and Lily Fairclough(Perth, Western Australia).

Haddad has won two junior singles titles and captured five doubles titles, including one alongside Fairclough. The London native reached a career best ITF women's singles ranking of 806 on November 20, 2023. Her career best ITF Junior singles and doubles ranking is 107 (September 11, 2023). Haddad boasts a career junior's singles record of 76-55 and doubles record of 50-45.

Fairclough brings a slew of high-level tennis experience to Troy, boasting a career best ITF singles rankings of 265 and doubles ranking of 420. The freshman has also won 10 junior doubles titles (won the J100 Sousse Title with Haddad) and three women's doubles titles.

Both are sure to be instant impact additions for the Women of Troy in both singles and doubles.

SCOUTING UNC
No. 1 North Carolina is 6-0 on the season after a recent 4-0 win over Kentucky on Saturday, Jan. 27 at UNC's Cone-Kenfield Indoor Center. The Tar Heels boast eight ITA ranked singles players, with sophomore Reese Brantmeier leading at No. 2. Following Brantmeier is No. 7 Anika Yarlagadda, No. 8 Carson Tanguilig, No. 26 Elizabeth Scotty, No. 28 Fiona Crawley, No. 34 Reilly Tran, No. 45 Theadora Rabman and No. 62 Abbey Forbes. UNC also has three ranked doubles pairs. At the top of the charts is No. 1 Elizabeth Scotty/ Reese Brantmeier. No. 7 Abbey Forbes/Reilly Tran follow, along with No. 11 Fiona Crawley/Carson Tanguilig.

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Players Mentioned

Eryn Cayetano

Emma Charney

Naomi Cheong

Lily Fairclough

Parker Fry

Immi Haddad

Snow Han

Grace Piper