Ng to face Texas A&M's Gavrilovska in NCAA First Round Wednesday

HANOVER, N.H. – With competition starting on Wednesday, the draws for the 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Singles Championship were released on Tuesday.

Sophomore Taylor Ng, who was ranked No. 97 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings released on May 1, will take on No. 54 Saska Gavrilovska of Texas A&M at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the First Round.

Gavrilovska, a sophomore from Vrsac, Serbia, played in a number of positions throughout the year, starting the season by playing at No. 1 and moving to No. 3 and 4 after winning only two of her seven matches in the top spot. She is 11-8 overall in singles action throughout the 2015 season, her best showing being at the No. 4 position, where she is a perfect 4-0.

The Aggies got to the third round of the NCAA Championship before being eliminated by UCLA on Friday. Gavrilovska went 1-1 at No. 2 after winning her first match against Siobhan Ryan-Bovey of Alcorn State, 6-1, 6-1, going unfinished against TCU's Simona Parajova in the second round and losing to UCLA's Chanelle Van Nguyen in the third round.

Ng, who is fresh off winning the Class of 1976 Award at the annual Celebration of Athletic Excellence for being Dartmouth's most outstanding female athlete of the year and being named the ITA Northeast Regional Player to Watch, is the first Big Green women's tennis player to ever make it to the singles championship.

She has never played anywhere but the No. 1 position, winning all but one of her 23 matches since the beginning of January. Her highest national ranking to date (No. 40) came during an 11-match winning streak that spanned the first two months of dual match competition. Last month, Ng was named the Ivy League player of the Year and a first-team All-Ivy singles and doubles selection for her performances against conference opponents.