LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (April 4, 2008) The No. 24 TCU women’s tennis team won their seventh consecutive match on Friday with a 4-3 victory over No. 58 UNLV at the Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nev. The Horned Frogs improved to 14-4 overall and 4-0 in Mountain West Conference play, while UNLV dropped to 9-8 on the season and 1-2 in MWC action.
“We competed very hard today,” said TCU head coach Jefferson Hammond. “This was a big conference win for us. We have San Diego State tomorrow and we’re looking forward to another great match.”
TCU’s duo of Idunn Hertzberg and Katariina Tuohimaa led off doubles play with an 8-3 victory over Sharon Marin and Nikol Dimitrova at the No. 2 position. After TCU’s 12th-ranked duo of Macall Harkins and Anna Sydorska fell at the top spot to the No. 48 tandem of Elena Gantcheva and Kristina Nedeltcheva, Nina Munch-Soegaard and Maria Babanova came through with an 8-6 victory over Katy Williams and Anna Maskalijun to clinch the crucial doubles point.
The Frogs jumped out to the 3-0 lead with wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions.
Harkins, a junior from Palos Verdes, Calif., routed Nedeltcheva by a score of 6-3, 6-3. The win was Harkins’ eighth in the last nine matches.
Sydorska followed with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Dimitrova at the No. 3 singles position. The Lviv, Ukraine, native improved to 11-5 this season with the win.
The Rebels stormed back, beginning at the top position, where No. 35 Gantcheva topped No. 63 Munch-Soegaard by a score of 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
UNLV would win the match in three sets at the No. 6 spot to close to lead to 3-2 before Tuohimaa answered with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 win over Maskalijun to clinch the match for the Frogs. Tuohimaa was down 3-0 in the final set and managed to rally
back to earn her 15th victory this season.
TCU will look to remain unbeaten in conference play on Saturday at 12 p.m. CDT
against San Diego State in Las Vegas.
No. 24 TCU (14-4, 4-0) def. No. 58 UNLV (9-8, 1-2), 4-3
SINGLES
1. No. 35 Elena Gantcheva (UNLV) def. No. 63 Nina Munch-Soegaard (TCU) 6-1,
3-6, 6-3
2. Macall Harkins (TCU) def. Kristina Nedeltcheva (UNLV) 6-3, 6-3
3. No. 86 Anna Sydorska (TCU) def. Nikol Dimitrova (UNLV) 6-1, 6-4
4. Katariina Tuohimaa (TCU) def. Anna Maskalijun (UNLV) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4
5. Katy Williams (UNLV) def. Kewa Nichols (TCU) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(3)
6. Sharon Marin (UNLV) def. Idunn Hertzberg (TCU) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1, 6, 4*, 5
DOUBLES
1. No. 48 Gantcheva/Nedeltcheva (UNLV) def. No. 12 Harkins/Sydorska (TCU) 8-4
2. Tuohimaa/Hertzberg (TCU) def. Marin/Dimitrova (UNLV) 8-3
3. Munch-Soegaard/Babanova (TCU) def. Williams/Maskalijun (UNLV) 8-6
Order of Finish: 2, 1, 3*
*Clinching point
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