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NCAA Doubles Round of 32
Alabama’s Bencheikh and Hiser Set to Compete in NCAA Doubles Championships
5/20/2024 2:44:00 PM | Women's Tennis
The doubles duo will face Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig of North Carolina in the Round of 32 on Tuesday
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –– The Alabama women's tennis team's No. 1 doubles pairing, Loudmilla Bencheikh and Anne Marie Hiser will open competition in the NCAA Doubles Championships Round of 32 on Tuesday at the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Okla. The duo will face North Carolina's Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig at 6 p.m. CT.
Bencheikh and Hiser tallied a team-high 15 doubles victories on the season, which included 12 wins as the Tide's No. 1 doubles team. The pair currently rank No. 20 nationally according to the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings and will face the sixth-ranked duo Crawley and Tanguilig in the opening round on Tuesday.
Bencheikh and Hiser become the first Alabama doubles team to appear in the event since 2017 and the first student-athletes sent to the NCAA doubles draw under first-year head coach Jonatan Berhane. The two are the Tide's 15th and 16th players to be sent to the event with UA tallying a total of 16 selections.
Match Information
- Date: Tuesday, May 21-Saturday, May 25
- Opening Round Match Time: 6 p.m. CT
- Location: Stillwater, Okla.
- Venue: Greenwood Tennis Center
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A Look at the Tournament
- Alabama's Loudmilla Bencheikh and Anne Marie Hiser for the NCAA Doubles Championships, which runs May 21-25
- The tournament will be held at the Michael & Anne Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Okla.
- The doubles championships will feature 32 teams with a champion crowned for both on May 25
- All doubles matches are the best-of-three sets with a 10-point match tiebreaker played in lieu of a third set
Alabama at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
- Alabama will send two athletes to the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships for the second time in the last three seasons
- Alabama qualified a doubles team for the first time since Erin Routliffe and Maddie Pothoff appeared in the tournament in 2017
- Hiser and Bencheikh became the Tide's 15th and 16th student-athletes to be sent to the women's NCAA doubles draw with UA tallying a total of 16 selections at the event
- The two become the first Alabama athletes to make the NCAA singles and doubles event under head coach Jonatan Berhane
Loudmilla Bencheikh and Anne Marie Hiser
- Currently ranks No. 20 nationally according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's latest rankings and have held a national ranking in all bi-weekly polls since March of 2023
- Earned their highest ITA Doubles ranking after being ranked seventh on March 19 of this year
- The No. 7 national ranking marked the first time since 2015 Alabama had a doubles team ranked in the top-10
- Played at the No. 1 spot in the doubles lineup for the team for all but two matches this season and collected 15 victories overall, including earning 12 of those wins during the spring
- In the fall, defeated Georgia's No. 1 doubles duo Aysegul Mert and Dasha Vidmanova, who currently rank No. 12 nationally
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