Women’s Tennis: March 18 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
Lamar 6, Mercer 1
New Orleans 6, Bradley 1
Stephen F. Austin vs. Cincinnati
Alcorn State at Southeastern Louisiana, Postponed (Weather)
Lamar 6, Mercer 1
MERCER, Ga. – After the Lamar women’s tennis team snapped six-game skid on Tuesday, it answered the call again on Wednesday when the Lady Cardinals defeated Mercer 6-1 at the LeRoy Peddy Tennis Center in non-conference action.
Andrea Ivanovic and Anna Spengler kicked off the match with an 8-5 win in doubles on No. 2. They defeated Liza Kylachkin and Laura Kelley and improved their team record to 4-3, all from the second court.
The doubles points was locked for Lamar when freshman Stephanie Marchena and sophomore Hanna Elfving took court three on a 8-3 win over Haley Powell and Xandra Fougner. The duo improved their win streak to three and their record to 3-2.
With the point claimed, the No. 1 doubles match was concluded in a tiebreak that saw Katya Lapayeva and Carolina Maso with a 7-6 lead over Grace Korta and Roxy Bartz.
In Tuesday’s match at South Carolina-Upstate, three Lady Cardinals were forced to play up a court due to an injury to Maso, and on Wednesday it was more of the same. After finishing her doubles competition, Spengler was scratched from singles.
Ivanovic (No. 2), Maso (No. 3), Elfving (No. 4), Marchena (No. 5) and Teodora Stefanovic (No. 6) all played up court.
Also like Tuesday’s match, LU took a majority of the first sets in singles action (4-of-6).
Marchena, who pushed the LU lead to 2-0, won her first set in a tiebreaker 7-6, but eased through the second set 6-2 over Klyachkin. The Aruba native improved her singles mark to 5-3 and is perfect on court five (2-0).
Maso also took her first set 6-2 and matched that in the second set over Roxy Bartz to push her season record to 7-4 and 2-2 on No. 3 singles. Maso has a season-high win streak of four.
In the top spot, Lapayeva took her match against Fougner in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 to improve to 4-9 in singles action and gave the Lady Cards the dual match at 4-0.
Ivanovic had to battle back from a 6-3 first set loss on No. 2 singles. She took down Korta 6-1, 6-0 in the final two sets to make the score 5-0.
Ivanovic is 5-8 this season and pushed her win streak to three.
Elfving also suffered a first set loss to Powell, but recovered to take the match 1-6, 6-4, (10-6) on line four. She improved to 6-4 on the season and 2-0 on No. 4.
Teodora Stefanovic won the first set of her match, and her opponent Kelly battled for set two. Kelly was able to take court six 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Two games into their four-game road swing, the Lady Cards travel to Louisiana-Lafayette for a 2 o’clock match next Wednesday. They conclude the road trip with a Southland Conference visit to Central Arkansas next Saturday.
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New Orleans 6, Bradley 1
NEW ORLEANS, La. –The New Orleans Privateers women's tennis team (9-6, 2-3 Southland) had a strong finish from the #2 doubles tandem to win a hard fought doubles point on the way to a 6-1 victory over the Bradley Braves (9-7, 0-0 MVC) on Wednesday afternoon at the University Tennis Center.
In doubles, the Privateers and Braves split matches by 8-1 scores at #1 and #3 doubles, putting the opening point in the middle court. Anna Segarra Rius and Anja Luethi rebounded from an early 3-1 deficit to win the next three games and take a 4-3 advantage.
After each team held their next two serves, Segarra and Luethi came up with a service break. Serving for the match, the Privateers #2 tandem wound up holding to end the match 8-5 and give the Privateers the opening point.
In singles, Hafsa Laraibi again set the tone for the Privateers with a 6-1, 6-0 victory. Laraibi now moves to 10-3 on the year and eight of her singles victories have been accomplished while dropping four games or fewer.
Soledad Calderon Arroyo had an early break in the first set, which sparked a 6-3 opening set in her favor. Calderon controlled the action in the second set as well, winning at 6-2 over Bradley's Alexa Brandt. The match clinching point came from Segarra who won her match 6-1, 6-2 to notch her 11th singles victory of the season.
With the match already decided, the rest of the singles bouts played out in full. Luethi finished with a 6-3, 6-3 victory. Marta Sans broke the serve of Aimee Manfredo to finish off a straight set victory of her own.
The Privateers next travel to Hattiesburg to take on Southern Miss on Sunday. The match is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
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Stephen F. Austin vs. Cincinnati
Score and recap to follow…
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