Harijanto Wins Flight Title at Fall MAC Invitational

Denise Harijanto

KALAMAZOO, MI – University at Buffalo junior Denise Harijanto (Jakarta, Indonesia) won the flight three singles title at the Fall Mid-American Conference Invitational which concluded Sunday afternoon at Western Michigan. The Bulls finished the non-scoring tournament with a first, a second and four third-place finishes.

Harijanto prevented a Western Michigan sweep of the seven singles flights with her victory in flight three over the Broncos’ Rachel Denny. Harijanto won the match in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1 to finish the weekend with a perfect 3-0 record as she did not lose a set. It was Harijanto’s first action of the 2008 fall campaign, after sitting out at the Princeton Invitational last month.

Smaranda Stan (Stantu Gheorge, Romania/Economic) also competed in flight final on Sunday, falling to Western Michigan’s Amanda Moccia in three sets. Stan won the second set, 6-2, to force a third set as Moccia bookended 6-1 decisions in the first and third sets. Stan went 2-1 for the weekend.

The Bulls also scored third-place finishes in flights one, four, five and six. In flight one, Diana Popescu (Alexandria, Romania/AL. I. Cuza) defeated Martina Wodzinski of Toledo in three sets, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. In flight four, Diana Toia (Rochester, NY/Brighton) scored an easy 6-0, 6-3 win over Eastern Michigan’s Joanna Woo. In flight five, Aleksandra Petrova (Sofia, Bulgaria/Logos International) downed Akron’s Jeremie Benjamin in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. Anna Subenkova (Riga, Latvia) also picked up a straight-sets win with her victory over Toledo’s Jessica Azoulay, 6-4, 6-3, in flight six. All four players finished with 2-1 records for the weekend.

The Bulls next compete at the ITA Regionals in Philadelphia. Play begins on October 23.