INDIANAPOLIS (May 3, 2017) – Sophomore
Andrea Lazaro has been selected to compete in the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships as announced by the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Subcommittee on Wednesday.
Lazaro is one of 64 singles players selected to take part in the championship, which will be conducted May 24-29 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Stanford, Georgia, following the conclusion of the team championship (May 19-23). The University of Georgia will serve as host.
This will mark Lazaro's first appearance in the NCAA Championships and the third appearance by an FIU Panther in the women's individual championship.
Named this year's Conference USA Player of the Year, Lazaro earned the league's automatic bid into the tournament. Ranked No. 44 in last week's Oracle/ITA Women's Tennis Individual Rankings, the native of Barcelona, Spain, registered an overall record of 20-4 (.833) and 14-1 (.933) mark in dual action, closing out the regular season with seven-straight wins. She went 14-1 at the No. 1 position and was 4-2 against nationally-ranked opponents. A two-time C-USA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week this season, Lazaro finished 2-0 in C-USA action, both in straight sets, defeating FAU's Laura Fabrizi (6-2, 6-1) and Middle Tennessee's Josefina Zehnder (6-0, 6-3). She recorded 17 of her 20 victories in straight sets.
All matches will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker at six-games-all will be used for all matches.
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