ELON – The Elon women's tennis team heads south to compete at ITA Carolina Regionals from Oct.15-19. South Carolina will host the tournament at the Carolina Tennis Center in Columbia.
 
ITA Carolina Regionals Briefing 
Tournament Details: Oct. 15-19, 2026 | Columbia, S.C. | Carolina Tennis Center
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Tournament Information 

• Play will begin on Thursday with the qualifying singles draw. Main draw action for both singles and doubles will start Friday and continue through Monday. 
• Eight Phoenix will compete Thursday in the qualifying singles draw. Cornelia Kack will begin her singles tournament Friday in the main draw.
• The Phoenix will have four doubles teams compete in the main draw.
• The main draw singles finalists and doubles champion at ITA Carolina Regionals will secure spots in next month's NCAA Individual Championships.

About the Phoenix 

• Elon has won back-to-back CAA championships after defending its conference crown in the spring. 
• The Phoenix returns five players from last year's championship team – Simone Bergeron, Cornelia Kack, Lisa Kranec, Alexis Nyborg and Mariana Reding. 
• Kack was named CAA Player of the Year in the spring after winning 13 dual singles matches at the Nos. 1 and 2 spots. Kack won all four of her completed singles matches against conference opponents, including against William & Mary in the championship match.  
• Bergeron and Reding both return after winning 13 dual doubles matches together a season ago to earn First-Team All CAA honors. Bergeron added 11 wins in singles to earn all-conference recognition, while Reding led the Phoenix with 15 singles victories, including a 12-match winning streak, and earned CAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors after going 4-0 in the conference tournament across singles and doubles. 
• Bergeron represented the Phoenix last fall at ITA Conference Masters, becoming the first Elon player to compete in the event. She won a pair of consolation singles matches at the tournament.  
• Kranec is back for Elon after securing the clinching point in Elon's 4-3 CAA championship match victory against William & Mary. She won 10 dual singles contests and paced the Phoenix alongside Kack with 14 victories in doubles to earn All-CAA recognition. 
• Nyborg picked up 12 dual wins in the spring playing the Nos. 4 and 5 positions, the third most singles wins on the Phoenix. She earned CAA Player of the Week honors after securing Elon's regular season victory against William & Mary.  
• The Phoenix welcomes four newcomers to this year's roster. Iga Piotrowska and Alexandria Warsing come to Elon as freshmen, while Lisa Dierick (Rider) and Sonja Rooth (Stephen F. Austin) are transfer additions.  
• Elon is led by two-time reigning CAA Coach of the Year Elizabeth Anderson, who is entering her 23rd season leading the Phoenix. She is joined by first-year assistant coach Carl Gedlitschka, who played college tennis at Cleveland State.  

 
Fall Recap

• Elon opened its fall season Sept. 12-13 in Chapel Hill at the Kitty Harrison Invitational. 
• The Phoenix tallied 16 victories over the three-day tournament with eight wins apiece in doubles and singles. Seven of the 16 wins came against Power Four opponents. 
• Kack and Piotrowska won the Navy Doubles draw, defeating the top-seeded pairing from Virginia in the semifinals, 7-6 (3).  
• Elon also defeated opponents from Charlotte, Duke, James Madison and Kansas State during the tournament.  
• All nine Phoenix played in the tournament, with Dierick, Piotrowska, Rooth and Warsing all making their Elon debuts. 
• Four Phoenix competed at the ITA All-American Championships in Cary from Sept. 19-22.
• Bergeron and Reding advanced to the qualifying draw at ITA All-Americans after defeating seeded pairs from Illinois and SMU. Kack and Kranec added another Power Four doubles victory, defeating Oklahoma in the prequalifying consolation draw.
• Kack earned entry into the prequalifying singles draw at the ITA All-Americans, playing a hard-fought main draw singles match against Tulsa.
• Elon hosted its first of two fall tournaments, the Jimmy Powell Invitational, from Oct. 2-3.
• Kack won the Jimmy Powell Invitational singles title, finishing the tournament with a 3-0 record. Kranec (3-0), Nyborg (3-0), Rooth (3-0), Piotrowska (3-0), Bergeron (2-0) and Warsing (2-0) also went unbeaten in singles at the tournament.
• Elon ended the Jimmy Powell Invitational 23-2 in singles, with all 23 singles wins coming in straight sets.
• Rooth and Dierick highlighted the doubles tournament for the Phoenix, finishing 3-0 as a pair for the weekend.

 
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