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WTEN | Kozyreva Selected for NCAA Championships
5/4/2022 9:50:00 AM | Women's Tennis
INDIANAPOLIS – Saint Mary's Women's Tennis player Mariia Kozyreva has received an at-large selection to participate in the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships May 23-28 in at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Illinois.
Kozyreva becomes the third player in SMC Women's Tennis History to reach the NCAA Tournament in the singles bracket, along with Alex Poorta (2010) and Jenny Jullien (2013 and '14).
"Masha" made the doubles tournament in 2019 with her partner Hind Abdelouahid, and would have participated in the singles competition on two different occasions if they were interrupted by COVID-19.
The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the pandemic and she wasn't able to qualify last season despite an 11-1 record in the spring since she didn't play in the fall, and thus didn't have enough wins against ranked opponents.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia native received the WCC's at-large bid after going 23-6 overall this season with wins over the #2 and #9 players in the country in Abigail Forbes of UCLA and WCC Tournament Champion Shiroi Fukuda of Pepperdine. The win over Fukuda netted her a WCC Player of the Week Award and she finished the season ranked No. 43 in the nation.
This season alone she advanced to the ITA National Fall Championship Quarterfinals, the ITA Division-I Northwest Regional Semifinals, and defeated the No. 1 seed at the KPSF Open in San Francisco, Sai-Sai Zheng from China, who was ranked No. 75 in the world at the time.
Kozyreva was again named to the All-WCC first team in singles and doubles, and was All-WCC Second Team as a freshman.
All matches at the NCAA Championships will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches.
Kozyreva becomes the third player in SMC Women's Tennis History to reach the NCAA Tournament in the singles bracket, along with Alex Poorta (2010) and Jenny Jullien (2013 and '14).
"Masha" made the doubles tournament in 2019 with her partner Hind Abdelouahid, and would have participated in the singles competition on two different occasions if they were interrupted by COVID-19.
The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the pandemic and she wasn't able to qualify last season despite an 11-1 record in the spring since she didn't play in the fall, and thus didn't have enough wins against ranked opponents.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia native received the WCC's at-large bid after going 23-6 overall this season with wins over the #2 and #9 players in the country in Abigail Forbes of UCLA and WCC Tournament Champion Shiroi Fukuda of Pepperdine. The win over Fukuda netted her a WCC Player of the Week Award and she finished the season ranked No. 43 in the nation.
This season alone she advanced to the ITA National Fall Championship Quarterfinals, the ITA Division-I Northwest Regional Semifinals, and defeated the No. 1 seed at the KPSF Open in San Francisco, Sai-Sai Zheng from China, who was ranked No. 75 in the world at the time.
Kozyreva was again named to the All-WCC first team in singles and doubles, and was All-WCC Second Team as a freshman.
All matches at the NCAA Championships will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches.
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