(St. George - Oct. 14, 2025) – Utah Tech women's tennis is set to host the 2025 WAC Women's Tennis Invitational on Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 16-18, at Trailblazer Tennis Courts.
The invite will feature singles and doubles brackets with participants from Abilene Christian, Tarleton State, UT Arlington and Utah Tech. The champions from each draw advance to the ITA Conference Masters on Nov. 6-9 in San Diego, California. Admission is free for spectators with parking available in the surrounding streets and next to the Atwood Innovation Plaza.
Play gets underway with the singles quarterfinal round at 9 a.m. on Thursday. No. 5-seeded junior
Mariana Zurita Berdecio will take on No. 4 Diana Kaibara (UTA) on court four, while No. 6 sophomore
Maya Inouye will challenge No. 3 Masha Vrsalovic (ACU) on court five.
Following singles play, doubles action will pit Utah Tech and Tarleton State against each other on court three. Doubles play will begin at 1 p.m. or an hour after the last singles match, whichever comes first.
The doubles champions will be crowned on Friday afternoon, with a third-place match taking place at the same time. After the semifinal round on Friday, the singles champion will be determined on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. on court two. Consolation singles matches will be played at 9 a.m. on both days.
Last week, Utah Tech won eight matches, including two in the main draws, at the ITA Mountain Regionals at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Zurita Berdecio took down Weber State's Jessica Hill (6-3, 6-2) to advance to the round of 32 in the singles main draw. In the second round, Zurita Berdecio fell to Boise State's Tereza Polakova (6-2, 6-2).
In singles qualifying, sophomore
Nutsa Tsintsadze picked up a win over Denver's Remy Nguyen, rallying to a victory after getting swept in the first set (0-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4). Colorado's Heidi Crncan defeated Tsintsadze in the next round (6-4, 6-1).
In the doubles main draw, Zurita Berdecio and fellow junior
Ana Gutierrez Sampere won their opening round tilt in a tightly contested match against UNLV's Kaho Oyama and Adi Bitton, 8-7 (8-6). The Trailblazer pair dropped their round of 32 match to Utah's Sara Akid and Kamea Medora, 8-4.
UT opened its fall season in September with a successful run at the Idaho State Invitational at Capell Park in Chubbuck, Idaho. Senior
Nicole Kells and freshman
Cameron Hendrix won the Bengal draw, while junior
Olivia Bustos and Inouye took second in the Black draw.
Utah Tech returns seven letter winners from last year's squad, including Inouye, a 2024-25 Second Team All-WAC selection. The rising sophomore led the Trailblazers with 10 singles wins, logging a 10-6 record during the dual season, setting the UT Division I-era record for single-season wins.
The Trailblazers also bring back seniors Kells and
Raquel Roshak; juniors Bustos, Gutierrez Sampere and Zurita Berdecio; and sophomore Tsintsadze. Hendrix is Utah Tech's lone newcomer, hailing from Midvale, Utah.
UT will wrap up its fall schedule at the UNLV-hosted Watanabe Classic on Friday-Sunday, Nov. 7-9, at the Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada.