MALIBU, CALIFORNIA (March 15, 2009) The No. 21 TCU women’s tennis team got back to it’s winning ways Saturday with a 5-2 victory over No. 48 Pepperdine at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center. The Horned Frogs advanced to 6-7 for the season.
“It was a great team win, nice way to end a tough road swing,” TCU head coach
Jefferson Hammond said. “We split the road trip, and I’m happy about that, because this is a very good Pepperdine team and nothing was easy.. I’m proud of the way the girls continue to go after it and the way they work hard in practice is paying off.”
TCU took the doubles point to gain an early 1-0 advantage over the Waves. Senios
Macall Harkins and Anna Sydorska claimed the first win over the Pepperdine duo of Alexandria Walters and Anne-Christine Voicu, 8-6. After falling from the No. 2 court, the Purple and White tandem of Maria Babanova and Gaby Mastromarino clinched the point with a tiebreaker win over Andrea Oates and Tania Rice, 9-8 (5).
In singles action, sophomore Idunn Hertzberg picked up her second-consecutive win, defeating Rice in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0, to give TCU a 2-0 advantage. However, Pepperdine would rebound to win matches from Nos. 1 and 2 to cinch the score at 2-2.
After Katariina Tuohimaa won her three-set match over Alex Liles, 7-5, 1-6, 6-2,
Babanova secured the Frogs’ sixth win of the season with a big win from the bottom position against Daniella Thomasma, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.
Mastromarino ended the day by snapping a three-match losing streak with her 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-4 victory over Oates from the No. 4 slot.
TCU will now return to the Lone Star State to take on SMU in Dallas on March 18, before heading back to the west coast to open up Mountain West Conference action against San Diego State and UNLV, March 27-28.
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