1987 NCAA Division I women's tennis championships

The 1987 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the sixth annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were held in Los Angeles, California, hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

1987 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
DateJune 1987
Edition6th
LocationLos Angeles, California
VenueLos Angeles Tennis Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Champions
Women's singles
United States Patty Fendick
(Stanford)
Women's doubles
United States Katrina Adams / United States Diane Donnelly
(Northwestern)

The women's team championship was won by Stanford, their third, and second consecutive, team national title. The Cardinal defeated Georgia in the final round, 5–1.

Stanford's Patty Fendick repeated as the women's singles national champion, the first to accomplish this feat. It would not happen again until Lisa Raymond won back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993.

The women's doubles title was won by Katrina Adams and Diane Donnelly from Northwestern.

Format changes
  • The women's team tournament eliminated its third-place match, just as the men's team tournament did in 1986.

Host site

The tournaments were hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.

Team tournament
First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship
            
Stanford 9
USC 0
Stanford 5
UCLA 1
UCLA 8
Kentucky 1
Stanford 5
Florida 1
Northwestern 5
Indiana 4
Northwestern 1
Florida 5
Florida 8
Harvard 1
Stanford 5
Georgia 1
SMU 6
BYU 3
SMU 6
California 3
California 7
Oklahoma State 2
SMU 2
Georgia 5
Trinity (TX) 5
Texas 4
Trinity (TX) 4
Georgia 5
Georgia 5
Miami (FL) 4

See also

References
  1. "NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
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