Women's tennis to host Annual Thunderbird Tournament

The ASU Women's Tennis Team will hit the home courts for the first time this season as they set to host the 14th Annual Thunderbird Invitational November 7-9 in Tempe at the ASU Whiteman Tennis Center. Teams included in this weekend's tournament are: Stanford, Cal, USC, UCLA, Michigan, Utah, San Diego, Fresno State and Armstrong Atlantic.

The tournament begins on Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. with doubles play before entering bracketed singles play at 9:30 a.m.

The entire weekend schedule is as follows:

Friday, November 7

  8:30 am      Doubles

  9:30 am      Singles – Main Draw/Top Half (1st Round)

11:00 am      Singles – Main Draw/Bottom Half (1st Round)

12:30 pm     Singles – Main Draw/Top Half (2nd Round)

                   Singles – Consolation/Top Half (1st Round)

  2:00 pm     Singles – Main Draw/Bottom Half (2nd Round)

                   Singles – Consolation/Bottom Half (1st Round)

Saturday, November 8

  8:30 am      Doubles

  9:30 am      Singles – Main Draw (Quarterfinals)

                   Singles – Consolation (Quarterfinals)

11:00 am      Singles – Back Draw Matches

                                   (1st Round Consolation & 2nd Round Main Draw)

12:30 pm     Singles – Main Draw (Semifinals)

                   Singles – Consolation (Semifinals)

Sunday, November 9

  8:30 am      Doubles

  9:30 am      Singles – Main Draw (Final)

                   Singles – Consolation (Final)

                   Singles – Back Draw Matches (TBA)

11:00 am      Singles – Back Draw Matches

In addition, the entire ASU roster will not be participating in the ASU Thunderbird as three Sun Devils have traveled to Charlottesville, VA for the National Indoor Championships. Representing in singles will be sophomore Kelcy McKenna and in doubles the Abdala sisters, Laila and Nadia.