ROME, Ga. - Ella Brissett and Alisha Chulani dropped the first set of the ITA Cup Women's Doubles Quarterfinals to third-seeded Slywia Mikos and Oliwia Mikos of Chicago at the Rome Tennis Center, but won a pair of tiebreakers for a dramatic comeback, earning a 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), 10-8 win to advance to tomorrow's semifinals. 

Brissett and Chulani coasted to a 6-2, 6-1 win in their opening round match yesterday, while the Mikos sisters were coming off a dramatic win in their first match, taking a 6-7, 6-3, 16-14 win over Molly Austin and Allison Szalay of Gustavus Adolphus. The Chicago duo got deep into another third-set tiebreaker, but was unable to repeat their magic against the fresher Athena team, who closed out the match with a 10-8 tiebreaker win. 

Chulani made it to the national championship match in doubles at the NCAA Division III Tournament in the spring, while playing with Nikolina Batoshvili, while Brissett and Lindsay Eisenman won the ITA West Regional. Batoshvili graduated in the spring, while Eisenman is studying abroad this fall and will re-join the Athenas in January. 

The semifinals will take place tomorrow at the Rome Tennis Center at 3:30 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. Pacific) with none of the four seeded teams remaining in the field. Brissett and Chulani will face Dakota Fordham and Emily Kantrovitz of Emory, who earned a 3-6, 6-3, 10-5 win on Friday in their quarterfinal match against Cassidy Binder and Stella Nishimura of Pacific.

Ansley Carpenter and Brooke Despriet of Sewanee will meet Caitlin Bui and Eleanor Archer of WashU in the other semifinal. Carpenter and Despriet upset the top seed, Marissa Markey and Angie Zhou of Pomona-Pitzer, in the quarterfinals.