SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento State doubles team of juniors Lou Baudouin and Irene Riva have been selected to represent the Big Sky Conference at the 2025 ITA Conference Masters Championships on Nov. 6-9 at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, Calif.
The duo was selected by a vote of the conference's head coaches following a round of nominations. Coaches could not vote for their own players.
Each Division I conference will send one singles player and one doubles team to the event, with the four singles semifinalists and top three doubles teams qualifying for the NCAA Division I Individual Championships hosted at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 18-23.
The ITA Conference Masters Championships are one of four qualifying tournaments that will seed the field for the NCAA Individual Championships, joining the ITA All-American Championships (10 singles, four doubles), the ITA Regional Championships (26 singles, 13 doubles), and the ITA Sectional Qualifiers (24 singles, 12 doubles). All told, 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams will vie for the NCAA Individual Championships.
Teaming up as a doubles pair for the first time in their Hornet careers, the duo is already off to an impressive start in 2025-26, highlighted by a semifinal appearance at the ITA Northwest Regionals in Berkeley, Calif., back on Oct. 10-14.
Entering the tournament as the No. 9 seed, Baudouin and Riva became the first Sacramento State doubles team to reach the semifinal round since Clarisse Baca and Maria Meliuk gained the finals in 2011, defeating opponents from Stanford, Washington (which was ranked No. 24 in the nation) and Oregon before falling to a team from California in three sets and falling just a win shy of qualifying for the NCAA Championships.
The duo also finished 2-1 at the Cal Fall Invitational, reaching the main draw semifinals of that tournament, and punctuated a 1-1 finish at the prestigious Battle in the Bay Classic with a win over the No. 53-ranked doubles team in the country from Oklahoma State.
Last spring, Baudouin was a combined 14-6 in doubles and 6-2 against Big Sky opponents while earning all-league second-team honors, while Riva was 8-5 in doubles play at the top two spots in the lineup after bouncing back from an early-season injury.
This will be the second trip to the ITA Conference Masters Championships for both players after Baudouin won a pair of singles matches and Riva joined former teammate Maddy Ferreros to reach the semifinals in doubles, eventually finishing fourth — just one win shy of an NCAA berth.
Complete information on the 2025 ITA Conference Masters Championships is available here: https://wearecollegetennis.com/ita-conference-masters-championships/.
