Pepperdine University sophomore Anastasiia Grechkina will compete in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Singles Championship, which takes place November 18-23 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.
Grechkina is scheduled to play her opening round match on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET against Georgia’s Anastasiia Lopata. The event will be available for live streaming on ESPN+, and live scoring updates will be provided on pepperdinewaves.com as they become available.
Grechkina secured her spot in the tournament by winning the singles title at the ITA Southwest Regionals last month. She has achieved a 16-2 singles record this fall and enters the championship as the No. 6 seed overall. Of her victories this season, six were against ranked opponents, and she was listed at No. 37 in the preseason ITA rankings released in August.
Her opponent, Lopata from Georgia, holds a No. 9 ranking according to ITA and qualified after being co-champion with teammate Anastasiia Gureva at the ITA Southeast Regionals. The winner of their match will face either Auburn’s Ava Esposito or USC’s Krisha Mahendran in Wednesday’s round of 32.
The championship is hosted by the University of Central Florida and USTA. This year marks the second year of a two-year pilot program where singles and doubles championships are held in the fall rather than after the spring dual season. Team championships remain scheduled for spring. Matches follow a best-of-three sets format with no-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker at six-games-all.
Players who reach at least the singles round of 16 or doubles quarterfinals earn ITA All-American honors after the tournament.
The schedule for singles competition is as follows:
– Tuesday, Nov. 18: Round of 64
– Wednesday, Nov. 19: Round of 32
– Thursday, Nov. 20: Round of 16
– Friday, Nov. 21: Quarterfinals
– Saturday, Nov. 22: Semifinals
– Sunday, Nov. 23: National Championship
This is also Pepperdine’s second consecutive year with a singles qualifier; last season Savannah Broadus advanced to the round of 16 and received All-American status.
Pepperdine women’s tennis has participated in every NCAA Tournament since its first appearance in 1982 except for one year and has made eight NCAA Regional appearances as a team over nine recent tournaments while claiming an active streak of eleven straight West Coast Conference titles.
