Women's Tennis: Feb. 22 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
New Orleans 5, Louisiana-Lafayette 2
UTSA 5, Northwestern State 2
No. 35 Tulsa 7, Stephen F. Austin 0
UAB 4, Lamar 0
Central Arkansas at Louisiana Tech, Postponed (Weather)
Nicholls vs. Tennessee-Martin, Cancelled (Weather)
Southeastern Louisiana at Jackson State, Postponed (Weather)
New Orleans 5, Louisiana-Lafayette 2
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The New Orleans Privateers women's tennis team (6-4, 0-1) had just five available players in singles, but were still able to pull a 5-2 victory over the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns (2-4) on Sunday at the University Tennis Center.
The Privateers had Anna Segarra Rius available in doubles where they swept through the Cajuns at the top two positions. However, Segarra could not play in singles due to an illness. She did partner with Anja Luethi for an easy 8-1 win at the 2 spot in doubles.
In singles, the Privateers came out on the right side of a pair of three-set matches. Yasmine Rashad was bumped up to the 4 spot with Segarra out, and came through with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Alex Way. At #5 singles, Hafsa Laraibi rebounded from dropping the first set to defeat Abby Johnson 6-2, 6-2 over the next two sets. Both Laraibi and Rashad claimed their sixth singles wins of the spring.
"They were magnificent in doubles and singles. Hopefully this will spring us into our conference match against Nicholls on Friday," said Kanga about his team who defeated the Cajuns for the first time since 2005.
Soledad Calderon Arroyo and Luethi also earned singles victories in straight sets for the Privateers. Calderon teamed up with Marta Sans to top the Cajuns' #1 duo of Nelo Phiri and Kelly Drew at 8-1. The duo of Calderon and Sans is 5-1 on the season.
New Orleans dives back into conference play on Friday when they face Nicholls at home. The match is scheduled for a 3 p.m. start.
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UTSA 5, Northwestern State 2
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Northwestern State picked up the doubles point with a tight win in the third position by Aliona Ladutska and Emily Kerr, but dropped a trio of three-set singles battles and an overall 5-2 decision Sunday at Texas-San Antonio.
The 6-4 triumph by Kerr/Ladutska over Lina Hallgren and Nicole Karaklis coupled with an overpowering 6-1 decision at No. 1 for NSU's Natalya Krutova and Tatiana Larina to open the match well for the Lady Demons (1-6).
But UTSA (4-3) used the homecourt edge to its advantage while pulling out a series of hard-fought singles victories.
Polina Ivanova prevailed 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in the No. 5 position over Hallgren.
Larina was outlasted 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 by UTSA's Jacobea Junger. The other three-set singles decisions going the Roadrunners' way were a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 thriller to Karaklis over
NSU's Barbora Kollarova at No. 4, and a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 UTSA win by Irene Gandara Gonzalez over Kerr at No. 6.
Even the two-setters were quite competitive for a set. Krutova fell 7-6 (10-8), 6-0 at No. 2 and Ladutska was beaten 6-1, 7-6 in the third position.
After two weekends away from home, NSU will be at the Jack Fisher Tennis Complex for the next two weekends. Saturday NSU will play host to Southern Mississippi at 11, and next Sunday, Alabama-Birmingham visits for a noon match.
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No. 35 Tulsa 7, Stephen F. Austin 0
TULSA, Okla. – Stephen F. Austin dropped a 7-0 decision to 35th-ranked Tulsa Sunday morning at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The loss drops the Ladyjacks to 5-3 on the season.
Tulsa opened up the day with a 6-2 decision in the first doubles match as Valeria Terentyeva and Vivienne Kulicke fell in the No. 3 doubles. That was followed by a decisive 6-3 win in the No. 1 slot, defeating Malena Gordo and Dhanielly Quevedo to secure the doubles point.
The Golden Hurricane then remained dominant in the singles matches as Kulicke fell 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 3 spot, followed by a 6-0, 6-1 defeat of No. 6 Julia Lorca and a 6-0, 6-1 victory over No. 4 Terentyeva to secure the victory.
SFA was unable to muster a point on the day as No. 5 Macarena Sedano Acosta fell 6-1, 6-2, No. 2 Denise Maxl dropped a 6-3, 6-0 decision and No. 1 Gordo fell 6-2, 6-3.
SFA will now have a few weeks off before returning to action in Las Cruces, N.M. on Friday, March 6, facing New Mexico State at 10 a.m.
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UAB 4, Lamar 0
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Lamar women's tennis team came up short on Sunday night in a 4-0 loss to UAB in a shorted match at the UAB Tennis courts.
UAB jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after winning the doubles point with wins on court one and court three. Caroline Faught and Paula Castro downed Katya Lapayeva and Carolina Maso, 8-3, on the first line, and Stephanie Marchena and Hanna Elfving were defeated by Catherine Ragon and Rachel Daniell, 8-6.
Two of the three decided contests in singles play were forced to go to three sets. On court two, Anna Spengler won the first against Pardis Kianovsh 6-3, but Kianovsh closed it out with 6-4 and 6-3 set victories.
Andrea Ivanovic also took the first set of her singles match, 6-3, on court three against Elaine Simon, but Simon went on to take sets two and three 6-2, 6-1, respectively. Daniell defeated Lapayeva on court one 6-3, 6-2.
One doubles and three singles matches went unfinished the day. Maso faced off with Ragon on singles court four, Elfving took on Castro on court five and Marchena and Amy Lowther were never able to start from court six.
Ivanovic's and Splengler's doubles competition went unfinished with Kianovsh and Simon at 7-5.
The Lady Cardinals open up Southland Conference play next with a match at New Orleans on March 7 at 11 o'clock and Southeastern Louisiana on March 8 at the same time.
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