The Emory University women's tennis team opened competition at the ITA Cup on Thursday with the doubles tandem of Yanire Marte and Devin Gilroy advancing to the quarterfinal round with a comeback victory.

Marte and Gilroy highlighted the Eagles as the tandem defeated MIT's Sophia Yang and Claire Zhou in three sets to move on in the draw. Emory's pairing dropped the opening set 1-6 before storming back to claim the win 7-6 (5), 10-6 and will play Redlands Maegan Deng and Lindsey Whelan at 4:30pm on Friday for a spot in Saturday's semifinals.

The day started with singles action with sophomores Holyn Karp and Audrey Pogue representing the Eagles in the 16-person Division III field. Both Eagles fell in straight sets in the opening round of the match draw to fall into the consolation matches with Karp dropping a decision to Carnegie Mellon's Shelly Zinchenko 6-3, 6-4 and Pogue against CMS' Rebecca Kong 6-3, 6-4.

Karp also took part in the doubles draw with classmate Visnja Gusavac as the tandem went against UChicago's Clara Zou and Rosalyn Chan. The Eagles took set one 6-3 but the Maroons rallied to upend the draw's No. 4 overall seed 6-1 and 10-4 in the final two sets to bounce the Emory pair from the main draw and into the consolation rounds.

Friday's action from the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Georgia is set to start at 12:00 PM.