Four teams will advance to the semifinals after the opening round of the America East Conference Tennis Championship on Friday afternoon, at the Connecticut Tennis Center in New Haven, Conn. Boston University recieved a bye for today's matches because of their No. 1 seed.

Complete Day One Results

Juniors Jelena Koprivica and Lya Kushnirovich won both their singles and doubles matches, leading No. 2 Binghamton to a 5-0 win over No. 7 Hartford. UMBC and Stony Brook also advance to the next round after defeating New Hampshire and Hartford, respectively. UMBC’s Cornelia Carapcea and Adriana Fonseca both won their singles and doubles matches to carry the Retrievers. Stony Brook's Sandy Wijeratne, Erica Federgreen, Monica Myers and Aimee Kern all earned singles victories to carry the Seawolves.

The America East Tennis Championship utilizes a format of three doubles matches and six singles matches. Doubles matches are played first using eight-game pro sets with a 12-point tie-break at eight games all. The team winning two or more of the doubles matches receives one point in the team scoring. The doubles matches are followed by the singles matches using a best two-of-three sets format. Each singles match is worth one point. A minimum of four points is required to win the team match.