Women's Tennis Faces Tough Competition at Princeton Meet

Smaranda Stan

PRINCETON, NJ – The University at Buffalo women's tennis team is seeing some strong competition as the Bulls are facing three strong national programs in the Princeton Invitational. The Bulls are in the field with Atlantic Coast Conference representative Virginia Tech and Ivy League members Penn and Princeton.

Friday's matches were moved indoors due to rain with the Bulls falling in all seven contests, although the three matches against Penn were competitive with one match being decided by a 9-8 count and two others by 8-5 scores.

On Saturday as competition moved outdoors, the Bulls were swept in doubles play by Princeton in three contests. The Bulls then moved on to singles matches but lost all seven to Virginia Tech. UB went 1-6 in singles play against Penn. The lone singles win for the Bulls was by Smaranda Stan (Stantu Gheorge, Romania/Economic) as she defeated the Quakers' Maria Anisimova in a third-set super-tiebreaker. Stan won the opening set, 6-0, but fell in the second, 6-3. She then disposed of her opponent in the 10-point super-tiebreaker by a 10-5 margin. Stan also went to a third set with Virginia Tech's Jasmin Hamza, falling 10-7 in the super-tiebreaker

Play concludes on Sunday. Complete results follow.

Friday's results

Doubles vs. Virginia Tech

Holly Johnson/Jessica Brouwer (VT) d. Diana Popescu/Smaranda Stan (UB), 8-4

Inga Beerman/Martha Blakely (VT) d. Aleksandra Petrova/Anna Subenkova (UB), 8-4

Jasmin Hamza/Abbey Walker (VT) d. Diana Toia/Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 9-7

Shannon Betts (VT) d. Jenelle Jones-Mitchell (UB), 8-0 (singles match)

Doubles vs. Penn

Alexa Ely/Kate Kosminskaya (P) d. Diana Popescu/Smaranda Stan (UB), 8-5

Maria Anisimova/Lauren Sadaka (P) d. Aleksandra Petrova/Anna Subenkova (UB), 8-5

Emily Wolf/Jordan Schaefer (P) d. Diana Toia/Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 9-8

Saturday's results

Doubles vs. Princeton

Hilary Bartlett/Taylor Marable (P) d. Diana Popescu/Smaranda Stan (UB), 8-2

Lauren McHale/Rachel Saiontz (P) d. Aleksandra Petrova/Anna Subenkova (UB), 8-1

Kristen Scott/Kelly Stewart (P) d. Diana Toia/Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 8-1

Sarah Huah (P) d. Jenelle Jones-Mitchell (UB), 6-1 (singles match)

Singles vs. Penn

Kate Kominskaya (P) d. Diana Popescu (UB), 6-4, 6-2

Lauren Sadaka (P) d. Diana Toia (UB), 6-1, 6-3

Emily Wolf (P) d. Anna Subenkova (UB), 6-2, 6-0

Jordan Schaefer (P) d. Jenelle Jones-Mitchell (UB), 6-2, 6-2

Smaranda Stan (UB) def. Maria Anisimova (P), 6-0, 3-6, (10-5)

Alexa Ely (P) d. Aleksandra Petrova (UB), 6-4, 6-1

DePaoli (P) d. Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 7-5, 6-3

Singles vs. Virginia Tech

Inga Beermann (VT) d. Diana Popescu (UB), 6-4, 6-1

Jessica Brouwer (VT) d. Diana Toia (UB), 7-5, 6-4

Abbey Walker (VT) d. Anna Subenkova (UB), 6-2, 6-2

Katie Blow (VT) d. Jenelle Jones-Mitchell (UB), 6-0, 6-0

Jasmin Hamza (VT) d. Smaranda Stan (UB), 2-6, 6-2, (10-7)

Martha Blakely (VT) d. Aleksandra Petrova (UB), 6-2, 6-2

Holly Johnson (VT) def. Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 6-0, 6-0