ITA All-American Tournaments Kick Off

If you search the image library for “Vanderbilt tennis,” the first result is indeed VU tennis...from 1972. No, seriously.The ITA All-American Championships for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams start this weekend, running through October 9th. The men’s tournament is in Tulsa, while the women are playing in Cary, North Carolina. Being a fall tennis competition, these tournaments are individual events, rather than team events.

For some reason I don’t know, the men’s event is a lot bigger than the women’s. There are 412 singles players in the men’s tournament, compared to 176 on the women’s side. Since Vanderbilt’s men team is much weaker than the women’s, this is actually beneficial. It…