After playing around rough weather last weekend, the ASU women’s tennis team will ironically travel to Atlanta and play indoors for a chance to qualify for the National Indoor Championship.

The No. 29 Sun Devils (2-0) will first face off against No. 10 Georgia Tech (2-0), the 2007 national champions, on Saturday during the International Tennis Association Kick-Off Weekend.

Georgia Tech boasts the top-ranked player in women’s tennis with sophomore Irina Falconi.

A victory over the Yellow Jackets would place them against either No. 34 Kentucky (0-2) or No. 24 Alabama (2-0) Sunday for one of the 16 spots in the National Indoor Championship.

ASU coach Sheila McInerney said the team was able to choose which region it wanted to compete in over the summer.

“We wanted to certainly play those three teams that we don’t play all year,” McInerney said.

The Sun Devils are the fourth and final seed among the teams in Atlanta.

“It’s a good tournament no matter who you are playing,” McInerney said. “All these teams are ranked, so it’s positive no matter what happens.”

If victorious over the weekend, the team would travel to the National Indoor Championship that will take place in Madison, Wisc. from Feb. 12 to 15.

Last season, ASU upset Florida State 4-1 in the first round of the Indoor Championships before falling to Georgia Tech 4-2 the next day.

McInerney said her team expects to go into Atlanta and defeat both teams.

“They are certainly not any better than the schools we are going to face in our conference,” McInerney said. “We’re used to tough competition. The beauty of this is that it’s different competition.”

Indoor competition provides a different atmosphere on the court, with quicker play and a faster ball.

“It’s like playing baseball or football indoors in a dome,” McInerney said. “It’s quicker, you don’t have the sun and you don’t have the wind as an element. To expose the girls to as many different scenarios as possible is a good thing.”

The trip will be a homecoming for ASU sophomore Sianna Simmons, who graduated from Keystone National High School in Atlanta.

Simmons won the dual-clinching match against UC Davis on Saturday.

ASU goes into the weekend with six healthy players but with one switch in the lineup.

Junior Micaela Hein returns from a knee injury, and out goes junior Ashlee Brown after suffering an injury in last weekend’s dual against UC Davis.

Reach the reporter at nathan.meacham@asu.edu