LA JOLLA -- The Big West women’s tennis singles and doubles bids to the ITA Conference Masters was contested in the conference’s fall event at UC San Diego’s Northview Tennis Courts, last Thursday to Sunday. The winners of the singles and doubles tournaments got the first rights to the league’s bids, but if they decline then the runner-up may accept. If the runner-up declines, then the right will go to third, and so on. 

The ITA Conference Masters is one of four ways to qualify for NCAAs. Since the event will be held simultaneously as the ITA Sectional Championships, another NCAA qualifying tournament, the complication of which event to participate in occurs when deciding whether or not to accept the conference’s bid. 

Singles
Long Beach State’s Pamela Badillo defeated Makeilah Nepomucino of Hawai‘i in three sets, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to win the single’s tournament. 

In the semifinals, Badillo got past Cal Poly’s Candela Apirisi 7-5(5), 6-3, while Nepomucino bested Long Beach State’s Cecilia Acosta 6-4, 7-6(9). 
 

Round	Winner	Runner-Up	Score
Final	Pamela Badillo (Long Beach State)	Makeilah Nepomucino (Hawai'i)	6-4, 1-6, 7-5
Semifinals	Pamela Badillo (Long Beach State)	Candela Apirisi (Cal Poly)	7-5(5), 6-3
Semifinals	Makeilah Nepomucino (Hawai'i)	Cecilia Acosta (Long Beach State)	6-4, 7-6(9)

Doubles
The UC Santa Barbara duo of Raphaelle Leroux and My-Anh Holmes defeated Cal Poly’s Kennedy Buntrock and Natalie Lynch 6-2, 7-6(2) to come out on top of the doubles tournament. 

In the semifinals, Leroux and Holmes took care of Sophie Rachor and Grete Gull of Hawai‘i 8-5, while Buntrock and Lynch downed Nepomucino and Hannah Galindo, also from Hawai‘i, 8-5. 
 

Round	Winner	Runner-Up	Score
Final	Raphaelle Leroux & My-Anh Holmes (UC Santa Barbara)	Kennedy Buntrock & Natalie Lynch (Cal Poly)	6-2, 7-6(2)
Semifinals	Raphaelle Leroux & My-Anh Holmes (UC Santa Barbara)	Sophie Rachor & Grete Gull (Hawai'i)	8-5
Semifinals	Kennedy Buntrock & Natalie Lynch (Cal Poly)	Makeilah Nepomucino & Hannah Galindo (Hawai'i)	8-5