Kanapatskaya NCAA Championship Bound!

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse freshman Viktoriya Kanapatskaya has been selected by the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Subcommittee to compete in the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships as part of the singles competition. The event will be held at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida from May 23-28.

Kanapatskaya will be seeded between nine and 16 in the competition, joining a group of 11 ACC student-athletes that make up the top-16 competitors at the event. She was ranked No. 11 in the latest ITA rankings released on May 5.

Her selection into the event marks the 11th time that Syracuse has sent a student-athlete to the singles competition, joining Kathy Bradford (1987), Erica O'Neill (1994 & 1995), Jana Strnadova (1994-1996), Nicole Strnadova (1995 & 1996), Anna Shkudun (2016), and Gabriela Knutsun (2018 & 2019) as the only Orange to qualify for the singles championship.

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, Kanapatskaya was named a member of the All-ACC First Team this season, one of two freshmen to be selected to the first team in a vote by the league's head coaches. She last competed on May 7 against Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Women's Tennis Team Championship, where she defeated No. 28 Akvilė Paražinskaitė in straight sets. She has a 12-5 record this season playing predominantly at the No. 1 spot.

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