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Emilija Tverijonaite finishes third at ITA Southwest Regionals

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Emilija Tverijonaite finishes third at ITA Southwest RegionalsEmilija Tverijonaite finishes third at ITA Southwest Regionals
ITA Tennis
by Rayne Robinson

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – For the second year in a row, junior Emilija Tverijonaite finished third at the ITA Southwest Regionals in San Diego, with a three-set win (6-0, 2-6, 10-4) over San Diego State’s Jo-Yee Chan on Tuesday. 

Ranked No. 52 at the start of the fall season, Tverijonaite earned four straight-set wins and went 5-1 over the weekend, dropping only two sets for the entire tournament. In the semifinals, Tverijonaite and Pepperdine's No. 37 Anastasiia Grechkina were tied one set apiece, but Tverijonaite ultimately fell to Grechkina after losing 6-1 in the final set. During the tournament, Tverijonaite won her 50th career singles match, becoming the 44th different Sun Devil to reach the mark. 



The junior defeated UC Santa Barbara’s Shachf Lieberman in the opening round of the tournament on Oct. 17, before moving on to beat Daniela Borrue of USC that same day in the second round. 

Tverijonaite advanced to the semifinals with a victory over UCLA’s Ahmani Guichard in the third round on Oct. 18 and another win against USC’s Imogen Haddad on Oct. 19 during the quarterfinals. 

Tverijonaite also went 2-1 in doubles play with her partner, Vivian Ovrootsky, over the weekend, falling in the quarterfinals.

Below is the full match-by-match recap of Emilija and the Sun Devils' performance at ITA Southwest Regionals this past weekend.

Emilija’s Singles Tournament performance
First Round

Results from Tuesday, Oct. 21
Third-place match

Results from Monday, Oct. 20
Singles Main Draw: Semifinals

Results from Sunday, Oct. 19
Singles Main Draw: Quarterfinals

Doubles main draw: Quarterfinals

  • West/Ho (CSUN) def. Ovrootsky/Tverijonaite (ASU) – 6-8

Singles Consolation Draw

Results from Saturday, Oct. 18
Singles Main Draw: Round of 16

Doubles main draw: Round of 32

  • Mahendran/Hossam Salah (USC) def. Taylor/Altori (ASU) – 8-6
  • Ovrootsky/Tverijonaite (ASU) def. Zahraj/Samel Druz (LMU) – 8-6 (7)

Doubles main draw: Round of 16

  • Ovrootsky/Tverijonaite (ASU) def. Guichard/Chung  (UCLA) – 8-0

Singles Consolation Draw

  • Karin Altori (ASU) def. Candela Aparisi (Cal Poly) – 6-1, 7-5

Results from Friday, Oct. 17
Singles main draw: Round of 64

  • No. 7 Vivian Ovrootsky (ASU) def. Vilma Krebs Hyllested (San Diego) – 77-65, 2-6, 6-2
  • No. 9 Lily Taylor (ASU) def. Kristina Nordikyan (San Diego) – 6-0, 6-3
  • No. 4 Emilija Tverijonaite (ASU) def. Shachf Lieberman (UCSB) – 6-3, 6-3

Singles main draw: Round of 32

Doubles main draw: Round of 64

  • Taylor/Altori (ASU) def. Mlouk/Chung (Cal Poly) – 8-2

Results from Thursday, Oct. 16 (Qualifying)

  • No. 8 Karin Altori (ASU) def. Olivia Mlouk (Cal Poly) – 6-4, 6-3
  • Emma Moratalla Sanz (CSUN) def. No. 8 Karin Altori (ASU) – 6-1, 3-6, [9-11]