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Women's Tennis Falls at Miami, 5-2
OXFORD, OH - The University at Buffalo women's tennis team finished a weekend roadtrip with a 5-2 loss at Miami (OH) on Saturday afternoon at the Hepburn Varsity Courts. The Bulls are now 7-6 overall and 3-5 in Mid-American Conference play while the RedHawks improve to 14-6, 5-2 MAC. UB picked up a victory in the opening doubles competition, but was unable to clinch a second win to take the point. The lone UB win came at number two as Andreea Novaceanu (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) and Tina Jacob (Singapore/Raffles JC) combined to down Leda Pesatova and Kelly Douple, 8-4. Miami took the point with wins at numbers one and three. At number one, UB's Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) and Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) dropped an 8-6 decision to Linda Jirouskova and Katrina Lomidze. UB's third doubles team of Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg) and Sabrina Carmona (Sao Paulo, Brazil/MMDC) fell to Victoria Pulido and Remy Swain, 8-3.
UB dropped tough three-set matches at third and fourth singles. Ortman won the first set of the number three match against Douple, 6-2, but lost the next two sets, 6-4, 6-0. At number four, Fischer picked up an opening set win over Pesatova, 6-3. Pesatova then rallied to win the second set, 6-3 and the deciding set by a 6-0 score. Carmona, playing fifth singles, fell to Pulido, 6-1, 6-0 and Jacob, at the sixth spot, lost to Swain, 6-3, 6-1. The Bulls conclude the regular season on Friday, April 22 at Akron.
Miami (OH) 5, Buffalo 2 Doubles 1 Linda Jirouskova/Katrina Lomidze (MIA) d. Kristen Ortman/Miglena Nenova (UB), 8-6 2 Andreea Novaceanu/Tina Jacob (UB) d. Leda Pesatova/Kelly Douple (MIA), 8-4 3 Victoria Pulido/Remy Swain (MIA) d. Katrin Fischer/Sabrina Carmona (UB), 8-3 Singles 1 Andreea Novaceanu (UB) d. Linda Jirouskova (MIA) , 6-2, 6-2 2 Miglena Nenova (UB) d. Katrina Lomidze (MIA), 6-2, 6-2 3 Kelly Douple (MIA) d. Kristen Ortman (UB), 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 4 Leda Pesatova (MIA) d. Katrin Fischer (UB), 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 5 Victoria Pulido (MIA) d. Sabrina Carmona (UB), 6-1, 6-0 6 Remy Swain (MIA) d. Tina Jacob (UB), 6-3, 6-1 |
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