Women’s tennis falls in weekend finale

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UE looks ahead to Senior Day on Friday

 A pair of home matches on Saturday resulted in two 6-1 wins for the University of Evansville women’s tennis team.  The Purple Aces opened the day with a win over Bradley before defeating Taylor University at Tri-State Athletic Club.

“This loss is a tough one; not just because we had opportunities to win, but more because of how hard our team fought. We had four different sets go to tiebreaker and two, 3-set matches. For the match to come down to a 3rd set tiebreaker at #1 singles tells you just how close this match really was,” head coach Jayson Wiseman said.  “A lot of credit has to go to Illinois St. and their coaches Maja & Thiago, they had their team ready to go with a great mindset from the opening point. The put us in a hole early at #1 & #2 doubles that ultimately made the difference in the match as the took #1 easily and just held on at #2. Losing that doubles point really put us behind the 8 ball in singles, but we gave it everything we had and just came up a fraction short.

“We know we will likely see them again in our path through the MVC tournament, so we are going to refocus, look to improve moving forward, and direct all our attention to getting at win this Friday against Missouri St. on Senior Day,” Wiseman added.

Evansville’s success in singles on Sunday came from Diana Tkachenko and Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga.  Tkachenko earned the win at #2 singles while Pascual-Larrinaga won in the fifth flight.

Senior Day is set for Friday afternoon when the Purple Aces welcome Missouri State to Wesselman Park for a 1:30 p.m. match.

Tennis Match Results

Illinois State vs University of Evansville

Apr 09, 2017 at Evansville, Ind.

(Tri-State Athletic Club)

 

Illinois State 4, University of Evansville 3

 

Singles competition

  1. Marcia Tere-Apisah (ILS) def. Chieko Yamada (UE) 6-0, 6-7 (0-6), 7-6 (4-0)
  2. Diana Tkachenko (UE) def. Jelena Karla Vujicic (ILS) 6-4, 7-6 (4-0)
  3. Gabriela Sprague (ILS) def. Daria Pentsova (UE) 6-2, 6-1
  4. Valerija Gercar (ILS) def. Theodora Soldatou (UE) 6-2, 6-3
  5. Andrea Pascual-Larri (UE) def. Andrea Beneroso (ILS) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
  6. Andjela Brguljan (UE) def. No player (ILS), by forfeit

 

Doubles competition

  1. Marcia Tere-Apisah/Jelena Karla Vujicic (ILS) def. Chieko Yamada/Theodora Soldatou (UE) 6-0
  2. Gabriela Sprague/Valerija Gercar (ILS) def. Diana Tkachenko/Nicoli Pereira (UE) 7-6 (6-0)
  3. Andjela Brguljan/Daria Pentsova (UE) def. Andrea Beneroso/No player (ILS), by forfeit

 

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