TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women tennis team will send juniors Cassie Alcala and Shalini Tallamraju as well as seniors Sloane Teske and Mariona Perez to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Midwest Regional Championships starting on Oct. 20 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Tallamraju, Teske and Perez will begin competition on Thursday morning starting at 8:00 a.m. Alcala prequalified for the main draw and will begin her run in the tournament on Friday afternoon.

The University of Michigan will host the event at the Varsity Tennis Center. The winners of the singles and doubles main draws will automatically earn a berth into the ITA National Fall Championships. The tentative schedule can be found below.

At the 2021 ITA Midwest Regionals, Alcala and Teske became the first Rockets to make it to the super regional round of an ITA event. They competed as doubles partners and took the first round from an Illinois team before falling to an Ohio State tandem in the quarterfinals match.

ITA Midwest Regional Championships
Ann Arbor, Mich. | Varsity Tennis Center
Oct. 20-25

Participating teams: Michigan, Bowling Green, Chicago State, Cleveland State, DePaul, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Illinois State, Illinois-Chicago, Illinois, Marquette, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Toledo, Western Michigan, Wisconsin, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Youngstown State.

Thursday, Oct. 20
8:00 a.m. – Qualifying Singles First Round

Friday, Oct. 21
8:00 a.m. – Doubles Main Draw First Round
Doubles Main Draw Second Round
Singles Main Draw First Round

Saturday, Oct. 22
8:00 a.m. – Doubles Main Draw Round of 16
Singles Main Draw Round of 32
Singles Main Draw Round of 16

Sunday, Oct. 23
9:00 a.m. – Doubles Main Draw Quarterfinals
Doubles Main Draw Semifinals
Singles Main Draw Quarterfinals

Monday, Oct. 24
10:00 a.m. – Doubles Main Draw Final
Singles Semifinals

Tuesday, Oct. 25
10:00 a.m. – Singles Main Draw Final