Pairings Set For CAA Tennis Championships
Rob Washburn
CAA MEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET
CAA WOMEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET
RICHMOND, Va. (April 17, 2017) – The pairings are set for the 2017 CAA Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships, which will be held April 20-23 at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center on the campus of the Elon University in Elon, N.C.
The women’s championship starts on Thursday morning with first-round action as #8 Drexel faces #9 Hofstra at 10 a.m. Quarterfinal play gets underway at 9 a.m. on Friday with top-seeded William & Mary meeting the Drexel/Hofstra winner and #4 James Madison squaring off with #5 Delaware. Those matches will be followed at 1 p.m. by #2 Elon taking on #7 Towson and #3 College of Charleston battling with #6 UNCW.
The winners advance to Saturday’s 10 a.m. semifinal contests and the CAA women’s championship match is set for 10 a.m. on Sunday.
The men’s championship starts on Friday morning with four quarterfinal matches at the Burlington Tennis Center in Burlington, N.C. At 9 a.m., top-seeded UNCW takes on #8 Delaware and #4 College of Charleston goes against #5 James Madison. At 1 p.m., #2 Elon meets #7 Hofstra and #3 William & Mary faces #6 Drexel.
The winners will move on to Saturday’s 2 p.m. semifinal contests. The CAA men’s championship match is set for 2 p.m. on Sunday. All three of those matches will be played at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center on Elon’s campus.
Admission is free to all four days of the championship, with the men’s and women’s champions both earning automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. For more information, log on the Tennis Championship page on CAASports.com.