Women's Tennis Weekly Release

Bulls Net Victory in Home Opener

UB’s women’s tennis team scored a 7-0 whitewashing of visiting St. Francis (PA) to open the home portion of the 2006-07 campaign on Saturday at the University Tennis Center. It was the ninth straight win for the Bulls over the Red Flash in the all-time series and fourth in a row by a 7-0 score.

Nenova Ties Ortman For Doubles Win Crown

Miglena Nenova

UB opened with a clean sweep of the doubles matches allowing just two games in the three matches. Highlighting the doubles play was Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) tying the UB record for career doubles victories with the 59th of her four-year career. She teamed with freshman Denise Harijanto (Jakarta, Indonesia) for the 8-0 win over Abigail Ball and Eva Keresztes. Nenova tied former player and current assistant coach Kristen Ortman (2002-06) on the doubles win list. She and Harijanto lead the Bulls with an 8-3 mark as a duo this season.

UB Goes 10-for-10 in Singles Play

Nenova celebrated her 21st birthday on Saturday by downing Roxy Ionescu, 6-0, 6-1, at number one, to lead the singles sweep for the Bulls. It was her 55th singles victory, second all-time behind Ortman’s 59. UB won all 10 singles contests with the top six counting in the scoring and the remainder played as exhibitions.

Tina Jacob

Five Bulls picked up 6-0, 6-0 “double-bagel” wins on Saturday. Natalie Dean (Feilding, New Zealand/Palmerston North), at number three, Harijanto, at number four, Tina Jacob (Singapore/Raffles JC), at number five, Smaranda Stan (Stantu Gheorge, Romania/Economic), at number six and Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg), in the top exhibition match, did not allow game to their Red Flash opponents.

Also scoring singles wins were Andreea Novaceanu (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) at number two and freshmen Diana Toia (Rochester, NY/Brighton), Caitlin Turner (Victor, NY/Victor) and Gabby Viens (Camden, NY/Camden) in exhibition matches.