OU Tennis is heating up on the courts during this fall season. The men and women teams are each sending players to the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Indoor Championships held Nov. 5-8 at Yale University in Connecticut.

The Championships feature 32 of the nation’s top players. Junior Ana-Maria Constantinescu and freshman Teona Tsertsvadze both qualified to attend this year’s tournament. Constantinescu qualified to compete in both the Main Draw singles and doubles matches.

Tsertsvadze will join Constantinescu to compete against 15 doubles pairs.

This is Constantinescu’s second trip to the tournament after coming up short in the second round as a freshman in 2007.

Tsertsvadze also qualified for her first trip as a freshman this year. The duo qualified for the ITA National championship after claiming both the regional titles on Oct. 25 in Norman.

The OU men’s tennis team will also being sending a Sooner to compete this week in the tournament.

Senior Andrei Daescu qualified after making it to the regional finals to compete in his third appearance at the ITA Indoor Championships.

Daescu fell to 3rd ranked Daniel Vallverdu in the round of 16 during last year’s appearance. Daescu is currently ranked fourth seed for the tournament and is no. 40 nationally.

The tournament will began with singles first round Thursday.

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