ORLANDO, Fla. – The 2026 Atlantic 10 Women’s Tennis Championship continued on Thursday night with the closing two quarterfinal matches at the USTA National Campus.  Second-seeded VCU matched up with seventh-seeded Saint Louis, and No. 3 seed Richmond met No. 6 seed Rhode Island.

Match 7: No. 2 VCU def. No. 7 Saint Louis, 4-0
The second-seed VCU Rams earned a strong 4-0 win over No. 7 Saint Louis in the A-10 Women’s Tennis Championship Quarterfinals on Thursday night. VCU won the doubles point with a pair of 6-4 victories on Courts 2 and 3. Andrea Magallanes kept the momentum going with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Saint Louis’ Naima Luthra at the No. 4 singles position. VCU’s Sara Alba took down Aryn Walker 6-2, 6-4 on Court 6, before Sofia Jane Thorne bested Saint Louis’ Emmerson White 6-2, 6-2 at the top position moments later to clinch the match.

SINGLES
1. Sofia Jane Thorne (VCU) def. Emmerson White (SLU) 6-2, 6-2
2. Tania Isabel Andrade Sabando (VCU) vs. Fiorella Duran (SLU) 6-4, 4-2, DNF
3. Madison Hill (SLU) vs. Mariam Ibrahim (VCU) 7-6 (3), 0-1, DNF
4. Andrea Magallanes (VCU) def. Naima Luthra (SLU) 6-3, 6-0
5. Elicia Kim (VCU) vs. Nicolly Ferreira (SLU) 6-3, 2-1, DNF
6. Sara Alba (VCU) def. Aryn Walker (SLU) 6-2, 6-4
DOUBLES:
1. Mariam Ibrahim/Tania Isabel Andrade Sabando (VCU) vs. Emmerson White/Madison Hill (SLU) 4-4, DNF
2. Sofia Jane Thorne/Andrea Magallanes (VCU) def. Aryn Walker/Naima Luthra (SLU) 6-4
3. Sara Alba/Viktoria Lackova (VCU) def. Nicolly Ferreira/Fiorella Duran (SLU) 6-4
 
Match 8: No. 3 Richmond No. 6 Rhode Island
The No. 4 seed Davidson Wildcats put together a dominant 4-0 win over No. 5 seed George Washington in Thursday’s A-10 Women’s Tennis Championship Quarterfinals. Rhode Island won the doubles point in narrow fashion, overcoming a loss on Court 1 to win 6-4 on Court 3 and 7-6 (2) on Court 2. The Spiders took control from there, starting with Laney O’Neil’s 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 6 singles followed by Abby Lee’s 6-1, 6-1 triumph at the No. 4 position. Richmond’s Lara Bakhaya defeated Rhode Island’s Nikki Fernando 6-4, 6-3, before Sofia Barbulescu clinched the match for the Spiders with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Grace Darcy at the top position.

SINGLES:
1. Sofia Barbulescu (UR) def. Grace Darcy (URI) 7-5, 6-2
2. Lara Bakhaya (UR) def. Nikki Fernando (URI) 6-4, 6-3
3. Elizabeth Novak (UR) vs. Sophie Herrman (URI) 6-4, 4-3, DNF
4. Abby Lee (UR) def. Kajsa Helgesen (URI) 6-1, 6-1
5. Lucy Webber (UR) vs. Miruna Scarlat (URI) 6-2, 1-6, 3-2, DNF
6. Lainey O’Neil (UR) def. Anastasia Pettersson (URI) 6-1, 6-1
DOUBLES:
1. Sofia Barbulescu/Lara Bakhaya (UR) def. Nikki Fernando/Kajsa Helgesen (URI) 7-5
2. Grace Darcy/Anastasia Pettersson (URI) def. Lucy Webber/Elizabeth Novak (UR) 7-6 (2)
3. Sophie Herrman/Ava Grnja (URI) def. Beatriz Guerra/Abby Lee (UR) 6-4