Aces to finish MVC Championship on MondayÂ
 University of Evansville freshman Diana Tkachenko will play for the Missouri Valley Conference Championship at #2 singles on Monday as the Purple Aces wrap up the Individual Championships on Monday at Wesselman Park.
In Sunday’s action, Tkachenko defeated Ting-Ya Hsu of Wichita State, 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the final match in the second flight. She will face Marcia Tere-Apisah from Illinois State on Monday morning.
Chieko Yamada clinched fifth place at the top flight as she beat Ari Dechter of Bradley, 6-0, 6-3. In flight five, Theodora Soldatou will have a chance to take third place on Monday as she will take on Valerija Gercar (Illinois State). Soldatou opened play on Saturday with a win over UNI, but dropped her match against BU’s Malini Wijesinghe on Sunday, 7-5, 7-5.
Nicoli Pereira will also have a chance at a 3rd place finish as she will play Savanna Hunt of UNI on Monday. Pereira lost Sunday’s matchup against Missouri State’s Alexia Meyer, 6-4, 6-3.
Flight four singles featured Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga, who took 6th place after falling to Alexa Brandt of the Braves, 6-4, 6-3.
All three doubles pairs for UE have a shot at third place in Monday’s final day. At flight one, Tkachenko and Pereira face off against the Bears’ Alye Darter and Phoebe Boeschen. Yamada and Soldatou face Illinois State’s Jana Kustkova and Jelena Karla Vujicic in the third place match of #2 doubles while Pentsova and Andjela Brguljan will take on Malini Wijesinghe and Alexa Brandt from Bradley in the third flight.
Monday’s action begins at 9 a.m. with championship doubles before singles play begins. Singles action features the championship and third place matches. Admission to the championships at Wesselman Park is free.
