FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (October 8, 2021) – After battling through a three-set match against the No. 59-ranked player in the nation, sophomore
Gina Dittmann's run at the ITA Women's All-American Championships in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. came to an end Friday morning.
Facing off with Pepperdine's Shiori Fukuda, Dittmann bounced back from a 6-3 first-set loss with a 6-3 victory of her own to force the deciding set. Playing for the third time in as many days against a nationally-ranked opponent, Dittmann fell 6-2 in the final set to the sixth-year senior.
Ranked No. 85 to open the 2021-22 season, the highest ranking of her young career, Dittmann's first appearance at the All-American Championships included a straight-set victory over Washington's fifth-year senior Vanessa Wong, ranked No. 14 in the nation, and a match against Iowa's Alexa Noel. Noel, ranked No. 12 to open the season, won in two sets though Dittmann led early on in both to open the tournament.
The fall season continues on Oct. 13 at the ITA Mountain Regionals in Las Vegas, Nev. The tournament begins on Wednesday and runs through Sunday, Oct. 17. In 2019 at the Mountain Regionals, former Lumberjack Chiara Tomasetti repeated as region champion with a 6-2, 6-1 victory in the finals while
Mimi Bland also reached the finals in doubles alongside her former doubles partner Adrianna Sosnowska.
Bland and
Elinor Beazley are the lone remaining Lumberjacks to compete at the Mountain Regionals in 2019 with both finishing with a pair of singles wins.
Ellie Millard last appeared at the tournament in 2018 when she finished 3-2 in singles play and 2-2 in doubles.
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