UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Brianna Baldi, Jordina Cegarra, Patricia Grigoras, Maelie Monfils and Maiko Uchijima will represent the Penn State women’s tennis team at ITA All-Americans in Cary, North Carolina from Saturday, Sept. 20 to Sunday, Sept. 28.
Baldi, Grigoras and Monfils will compete on the singles side while Cegarra and Uchijima will team up in the doubles tournament at Cary Tennis Park.
Saturday will begin with Baldi taking on Wake Forest’s Kady Tannenbaum at 9 a.m. Grigoras will battle UCLA’s Bianca Fernandez at 11 a.m. before Monfils concludes the opening round of singles at 1:30 p.m. against Sonya Macavei of Vanderbilt. Cegarra and Uchijima will have their first-round doubles match against Iowa State’s Ashlee Narker and Julia Camblor at 3:30 p.m.
Baldi, a sophomore transfer from Wake Forest, had a standout performance at the Debbie Southern Fall Classic, earning herself Big Ten Player of the Week Honors. The Greensboro, North Carolina native won her flight in singles with a 3-0 record, defeating Jane Dunyon (South Carolina), Marina Fudruic (Kentucky) and Heidi Bulger (Wake Forest).
Baldi and Grigoras picked up two doubles wins at the Debbie Southern Fall Classic last weekend. The team defeated Mississippi State’s Mia Robinson and Athina Pitta, 6-1, and Wake Forest's Whitley Pate and Evie Oxford, 7-5.
Monfils joined the Nittany Lions after two seasons at Florida State. Over the weekend, she won her first two matches in the Blue & White, defeating Alabama’s Amina Salibayeva and Wake Forest’s Sankavi Gownder.
It will be the fall debut for Cegarra, a junior, and Uchijima, a senior. The pair is 2-0 with their only appearance as a doubles team coming at the Cornell Invitational a season ago. They defeated teams from LeMoyne and Syracuse.
Head Coach Alexandra McIntyre enters her seventh season leading the program in 2025-26 following her winningest season at the helm a season ago. The team’s 14 wins were the most since the 2012-13 season.
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