{"id":1260,"date":"2015-05-21T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2015-05-21T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T01:01:00","slug":"three-tigers-advance-to-ncaa-sweet-16-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/2015\/05\/21\/three-tigers-advance-to-ncaa-sweet-16-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tigers Advance to NCAA Sweet 16 Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

WACO, Texas \u2013 With wins on Thursday, singles player Joana Eidukonyte<\/a> and the doubles team of Beatrice Gumulya<\/a> and Jessy Rompies<\/a> clinched spots in the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships held on the Baylor University campus.<\/p>\n

Eidukonyte, a 9-16 national seed in the tournament, defeated No. 33 Catherine Harrison of UCLA in Thursday\u2019s second round 6-2, 6-3. Eidukonyte has won both of her matches in NCAA Singles Championship play in straight sets and has not lost a match since April 10. With the win, she moves to 37-6 on the season. Yesterday, Eidukonyte moved into a tie for seventh in Clemson history for most singles wins in a season and with today\u2019s win she is now tied for sixth place all-time. The junior from Vilnius, Lithuania faces No. 7 Jamie Loeb of North Carolina on Friday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The doubles tournament kicked off on Thursday as 32 teams vied for spots in the Sweet 16. Clemson\u2019s duo of Rompies and Gumulya, ranked and seeded No. 4, punched their ticket with a 7-6(5), 6-0 win over Vanderbilt\u2019s Colton and Campbell. The two teams met up last Friday in the Sweet 16 of the Team Championships with the Commodore duo claiming an 8-6 victory. The pair, 27-5 on the season, will matchup Friday with Southern Cal’s duo of\u00a0Giuliana Olmos and Zo\u00eb Scandalis, ranked 19th nationally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gumulya\u2019s singles career at Clemson came to an end on Thursday as the senior fell 6-2, 6-4 to No. 11 and 9-16 seed Stephanie Wagner of Miami. The native of Jakarta, Indonesia finished the 2014-15 season with a 29-10 record in singles play. Gumulya earned All-ACC honors her sophomore, junior and senior seasons at Clemson.<\/p>\n

Eidukonyte returns to action Friday in the NCAA Singles Round of 16, while Gumulya and Rompies also play Friday in the Round of 16 of the doubles draw. The time or Friday\u2019s matches have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

NCAA Singles Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

RESULTS
<\/strong>Wednesday, May 20 \u2013 First Round (64)
<\/em>#12\u00a0Joana Eidukonyte<\/a>\u00a0def. #29 Joana Vale Costa (LSU), 6-2, 6-1
#60\u00a0Beatrice Gumulya<\/a>\u00a0def. #95 Cindy Nguyen (Hawaii), 6-1, 6-4
#85 Sophie Watts (Fresno State) def. #36\u00a0Romy Koelzer<\/a>, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 21 \u2013 Second Round (32)
<\/em>#12 Joana Eidukonyte<\/a> def. #33 Catherine Harrison (UCLA) 6-2, 6-3
#11 Stephanie Wagner (Miami) def. #60 Beatrice Gumulya<\/a> 6-2, 6-4<\/p>\n

SCHEDULE<\/strong>
<\/strong> Friday, May 22 \u2013 Third Round (16)<\/em>
<\/em> #12\u00a0Joana Eidukonyte<\/a>\u00a0vs. #7 Jamie Loeb (UNC), 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

NCAA Doubles Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

RESULTS
<\/strong>Thursday, May 21 \u2013 First Round (32)
<\/em>#4\u00a0Beatrice Gumulya<\/a>\/Jessy Rompies<\/a>\u00a0def. #20 Sydney Campbell\/Courtney Colton (Vanderbilt), 7-6 (5), 6-0<\/p>\n

SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, May 22- Second Round (16)
<\/em><\/strong>#4 Beatrice Gumulya<\/a>\/Jessy Rompies<\/a> vs. #19 Giuliana Olmos\/Zo\u00eb Scandalis (Southern Cal), Time TBA<\/p>\n

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\nSource: Clemson Football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WACO, Texas \u2013 With wins on Thursday, singles player Joana Eidukonyte and the doubles team of Beatrice Gumulya and Jessy Rompies clinched spots in the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships held on the Baylor University campus. Eidukonyte, a 9-16 national seed in the tournament, defeated No. 33 Catherine Harrison of UCLA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}