Three Middlebury women's tennis players participated in day one of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Tournaments on Thursday. Heather Boehm and Katherine Hughes both won twice in the singles bracket of 32 to advance to the quarterfinal round, while Hughes and Skylar Schossberger participated in the doubles draw. Matches were held at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont, California.

In the singles competition, Boehm started her day with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Emory's Bridget Harding, the tournament's No. 8 seed. During the round of 16, Boehm cruised by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Nicole Tan (6-0, 6-2). The second-year Panther will face top-seeded Eudice Chong in the quarterfinal round on Friday.

Hughes won her first-round match against second-seeded Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico in straight sets (6-2, 6-3), followed by a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 triumph over Lindsay Brown from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the round of 16. Hughes will play Wesleyan's Victoria Yu in Friday's quarterfinal. The two players squared off during Monday's team quarterfinal, with Yu taking the first set 6-2 and the second-set tiebreaker at 14-13 in favor of Yu when the match was decided.

In a bracket of 16 tandems, Hughes and Schossberger were defeated in straight sets by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Brown and Tan by scores of 6-4 and 7-6 (3). Hughes and Schossberger finished their second season with an 18-14 doubles record and the region's fourth-ranked tandem.