Cougars Into Second Spherical at ITA Sectional Championships

SEATTLE, Wash. (Nov. 6, 2025) – Washington State seniors Eva Alvarez Sande and Maxine Murphy every received their singles matches Thursday to open play on the 2025 ITA Sectional Championships, performed on the Nordstrom Tennis Center on the Washington campus.
 
Murphy was dominate in defeating Stanford’s Sein Myoung, 6-4, 6-1 within the first spherical. After an in depth first set the place Murphy broke serve at 4-4 then held to take the primary set. In the second, Murphy overpowered Myoung from the baseball to cruise to the straight-set win.
 
Alvarez Sande wanted three units to get previous Washington’s Jermine Sherif, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, to advance to the second spherical. After a powerful first set that noticed the Cougar senior in complete management, Sherif rallied to earn a pair of service breaks to occasion the match at a set every. In the third, Sherif struck first with a service break to go up 3-1, but it surely was all Alvarez Sande the remainder of the way in which, successful five-straight video games to shut out the match.
 
In doubles motion, Alvarez Sande and Murphy by no means acquired it going as they dropped a 6-3, 6-1 contest towards Washington’s Erika Matsuda and Carina Syrtveit.
 
Murphy will face Matsuda in Friday’s second spherical whereas Alvarez Sande will meet California’s Berta Passola Folch, the event’s No. 5 seed.
 
The 2025 ITA Sectional Championships consists of a 32-player singles draw and 16-team doubles draw. From these attracts, six singles gamers will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (semifinalists, two quarterfinal playoff winners). Meanwhile, three doubles groups will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship (champion, finalist, third place).