State Freshman Antonaki Set To Open 2019 NCAA Singles Championship Monday

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True freshman Emma Antonaki is set to open play in the 2019 NCAA Singles Championship Monday.

State Freshman Antonaki Set To Open 2019 NCAA Singles Championship Monday

May 19, 2019 | Women's Tennis

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STARKVILLE, Miss. – After a successful 2018-19 campaign, Mississippi State women's tennis player Emma Antonaki will open competition in the 2019 NCAA Singles Championship Monday at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.

The MSU true freshman, ranked 59^th nationally, will meet North Carolina State's 10^th-ranked junior Anna Rogers – a 9-16 alphabetical seed – at 1:30 p.m. ET Monday afternoon. The two players have never met. The match can be followed via live video and stats at tournament headquarters.

Antonaki was named the ITA Southern Region's Rookie of the Year on Saturday. The Athens, Greece, product is currently the highest-ranked freshman in the ITA Southern Region. Ranked as high as 55th nationally in her freshman campaign, she was named the No. 1 alternate to the 2019 NCAA Singles field on April 30 and the rookie learned this past week she had officially been entered into the 64-player field. She is only the third freshman in program history to earn a bid to the NCAA Individual Championships – just the second ever in singles.

Named 2019 All-SEC Second Team, Antonaki was also named to the 2019 All-SEC Freshman squad. She has notched eight ranked wins this year, three in the Top 25, and leads MSU in overall wins (45) this season - 25-12 in singles and 20-13 in doubles.

Rogers is 30-14 overall in singles in her third campaign in Raleigh. She was 20-8 at the No. 1 position while leading the Wolfpack to the NCAA Round of 16 as a team. She has 17 ranked wins this season, including seven against Top 40 foes.

The Stamford, Connecticut, product is also a top 8 seed in this year's NCAA Doubles draw with partner Alana Smith. With those singles and doubles seedings, Rogers and Smith will become the first All-Americans in N.C. State women's tennis program history.