PHILADELPHIA – Senior Amber Chandronnait (Bow, N.H.) of the Southern New Hampshire University women's tennis team advanced to the semifinals of the A singles draw at the USTA/ITA East Regional Sunday.  Chandronnait, who has captured the singles title at the event the last two years, advanced with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Marie-Louise Klein of Goldey-Beacom and a 6-3, 6-3 win over Jessica Nunez of University of the District of Columbia in the quarterfinals.  She will face Juliana Victoria of Holy Family in Monday's semifinal round.

Alena Mukdaprakorn (Hartford, Conn.) and Catalina Echeverry (Cali, Colombia) also advanced to the quarterfinals.  Mukdaprakorn was a winner over Stonehill's Lindsay Herschel in the second round before bowing to third-seeded Laura Mocodaenu of Queens (N.Y.) in the quarterfinals.  Echeverry prevailed over Andrea Salvetova of Queens 6-1, 6-0 in the second round before falling to seventh-seeded Nastia Shcherbakova of Chestnut Hill in the quarters.  SNHU was the lone team to have three players reach the round of eight.

Chandronnait and Mukdaprakorn also reached the semifinals of the A doubles bracket, defeating Maria Ortiz and Juliana Frey of Concordia 8-1 in the quarterfinals before falling 8-1 in the semifinals to Concordia's Ola Roberts and Yuliya Plevako 8-1.

The doubles tandem of Echeverry and Kara Pease (Falmouth, Mass.) reached the finals of the B doubles draw, where they will face Leah White and Kaitlyn Martin of Stonehill Monday.  The duo defeated Paulina Sotomayor and Rachel Litton of Bentley 8-4 in the quarterfinals before topping another Stonehill tandem, Paige Frost and Chelsea Haedrich, 8-4 in the semifinals.

In B singles action, Pease, Samantha Jean (Bedford, N.H.) and Jennifer Zastrow (Rutland, Mass.) each advanced to the round of 16 before falling.