TEMPE, Ariz. -- After a gut-wrenching loss in the round of 32 of the NCAA Team Championships, Arizona State's Desirae Krawczyk and doubles pair Ebony Panoho and Alex Osborne are preparing for the individual championships in Tulsa, Okla.
The 64 top singles' players and top 32 doubles' teams will begin the single-elimination tournament on Wednesday, May 25 following the conclusion of the team tournament.
"It's always exciting to be at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships," said head coach Sheila McInerney. "You have the best of the best here and will need to play very well to advance. At this point in the season, it's about competing hard, being tough and laying it all on the line. For Des and Ebony, this is the last time they will be representing ASU and I know they will compete hard and play as well as they can. We are excited for the girls to start."
Krawczyk, who enters the tournament ranked 35th, is coming off arguably her best season of her four years as a Sun Devil. The senior boasts a 26-12 record as the Devils' No. 1 player all year, while holding victories over then-No. 1 Francesca Di Lorenzo of Ohio State and five total victories over top-50 opponents.
Krawczyk enters the tournament needing three victories to get to 100 total wins in her Sun Devil career. In 2015, the then-junior lost in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships to Julia Jones of Ole Miss in three sets.
The Pac-12 Champion pair of Panoho and Osborne enter the NCAA Doubles Championships as the No. 15-ranked duo in the country.
While a tough loss to North Carolina State's top pair was their last finished match, the two had a 4-3 lead on No. 8 Alizee Michaud and Pleun Burgmans of Auburn before the Sun Devils clinched the doubles point.
Since the start of the season, the Australia pair have a 7-4 record against top-50 opponents, including victories over then-No. 6 Giuliana Olmos and Gabby Smith of USC, then-No. 7 Catherine Harrison and Kyle McPhillips of UCLA and then-No.5 Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle of Stanford.
Both tournaments begin on Wednesday with Krawczyk taking on No. 49 Quinn Gleason (20-13) of Notre Dame in the first round, while Panoho and Osborne match up against No. 23 Taylor Ng and Kristina Mathis (25-5) of Dartmouth.
Gleason had a tough stretch to end the season, losing seven of her final 13 matches. All came at the hands of opponents ranked No. 51 or better, including losses to No. 1 Hayley Carter of North Carolina, No. 2 Danielle Collins of Virginia and No. 17 Catherine Harrison of UCLA. In the regular season, Gleason won four of her 17 matches against ranked opponents with three of those going unfinished. Her best victory was against No. 34 Johnnise Renaud of Georgia Tech.
Ng and Mathis haven't lost a decided match since Feb. 14 with four undecided matches since that time. They've played just two ranked opponents since the start of the regular season, including a victory over preseason No. 1 Aldila Sutjiadi and Mami Adachi of Kentucky, 6-4, and an unfinished match against then-No. 36 Laura Eales and Hayley Thompson of Long Beach State. At the 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, the pair defeated current 3-seed Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan of Florida in a three-set tiebreak.