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Women’s Tennis Edged at Minnesota, 4-3
Feb 19, 2017 | Women's Tennis
Tigers come back from 3-0 down to tie it at 3-all.
MEMPHIS – The University of Memphis women's tennis team (3-3) came back from 3-0 down to tie the non-conference match at Minnesota (4-3) at 3-all, but could not complete the upset on the road, Sunday, falling 4-3.
"For the second consecutive day, we came out a little flat at the start of the match," Head Coach Hayden Perez said. "I wasn't happy with our energy and shared that with the girls and they responded in a great way and fought extremely hard in singles. I am very proud of their singles efforts, we found ourselves in some very intense and competitive situations and I liked the way we competed. We suffered a tough loss today, but I hope we learn from this experience and it makes us tough in the future."
Minnesota took the early lead with a 6-0 win at one doubles and a 6-3 win at three. The Gophers then stretched the lead to 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-2 win at four and a 6-4, 6-3 at six singles.
Hanna Sohn then helped swing the momentum the Tigers' way with a 6-3, 6-1 win at two singles. While she was closing up her match, Anki Wind had grabbed her opening set, 6-2, but was tangled up with Caroline Ryba, who won the second set to force a third set. While that was happening at one, senior Marta Morga was in a dogfight of her own. She had won her opening set, 6-3, and was one of two Tigers who found themselves in second set tiebreaks. Morga won her second set breaker, 10-6, to pull Memphis to 3-2 down, and freshman Katherine Cao tied the match at 3-all with a 10-5 win in her second set.
That put all eyes on court one, where Wind was trying to pull off the comeback. But with a vocal home crowd on her side, Caroline Ryba rallied from her first set loss to close the door on the Tiger comeback with a 6-4 win in the third.
Memphis will wrap up the five-match road swing at No. 18 ranked Ole Miss, Saturday, at 1 p.m. The Tigers return home for their first match in over a month on Mar. 3rd when they host Jackson State.
Minnesota 4, Memphis 3
Singles
No. 1 – Caroline Ryba def. Anki Wind (Memphis), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 – Hanna Sohn (Memphis) def. Tina Kreinis, 6-3, 6-1
No. 3 – Marta Morga (Memphis) def. Barbara Mancera, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6)
No. 4 – Annemarie Emme def. Gabrielle Paul (Memphis), 6-2, 6-2
No. 5 – Katherine Cao (Memphis) def. Mehvish Safdar , 7-5, 7-6 (10-5)
No. 6 – Camila Vargas Gomez def. Josephine Cao (Memphis), 6-4, 6-3
Order of Finish: 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1
Doubles
No. 1 – Safdar/Caitlyn Merzbacher def. Katherine Cao/Wind (Memphis), 6-0
No. 2 – Ryba/Cammy Frei vs. Sohn/Paul (Memphis), 4-3, uf
No. 3 – Emme/Vargas Gomez def. Morga/Josephine Cao (Memphis), 6-3
Order of finish: 1, 3
"For the second consecutive day, we came out a little flat at the start of the match," Head Coach Hayden Perez said. "I wasn't happy with our energy and shared that with the girls and they responded in a great way and fought extremely hard in singles. I am very proud of their singles efforts, we found ourselves in some very intense and competitive situations and I liked the way we competed. We suffered a tough loss today, but I hope we learn from this experience and it makes us tough in the future."
Minnesota took the early lead with a 6-0 win at one doubles and a 6-3 win at three. The Gophers then stretched the lead to 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-2 win at four and a 6-4, 6-3 at six singles.
Hanna Sohn then helped swing the momentum the Tigers' way with a 6-3, 6-1 win at two singles. While she was closing up her match, Anki Wind had grabbed her opening set, 6-2, but was tangled up with Caroline Ryba, who won the second set to force a third set. While that was happening at one, senior Marta Morga was in a dogfight of her own. She had won her opening set, 6-3, and was one of two Tigers who found themselves in second set tiebreaks. Morga won her second set breaker, 10-6, to pull Memphis to 3-2 down, and freshman Katherine Cao tied the match at 3-all with a 10-5 win in her second set.
That put all eyes on court one, where Wind was trying to pull off the comeback. But with a vocal home crowd on her side, Caroline Ryba rallied from her first set loss to close the door on the Tiger comeback with a 6-4 win in the third.
Memphis will wrap up the five-match road swing at No. 18 ranked Ole Miss, Saturday, at 1 p.m. The Tigers return home for their first match in over a month on Mar. 3rd when they host Jackson State.
Minnesota 4, Memphis 3
Singles
No. 1 – Caroline Ryba def. Anki Wind (Memphis), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 – Hanna Sohn (Memphis) def. Tina Kreinis, 6-3, 6-1
No. 3 – Marta Morga (Memphis) def. Barbara Mancera, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6)
No. 4 – Annemarie Emme def. Gabrielle Paul (Memphis), 6-2, 6-2
No. 5 – Katherine Cao (Memphis) def. Mehvish Safdar , 7-5, 7-6 (10-5)
No. 6 – Camila Vargas Gomez def. Josephine Cao (Memphis), 6-4, 6-3
Order of Finish: 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1
Doubles
No. 1 – Safdar/Caitlyn Merzbacher def. Katherine Cao/Wind (Memphis), 6-0
No. 2 – Ryba/Cammy Frei vs. Sohn/Paul (Memphis), 4-3, uf
No. 3 – Emme/Vargas Gomez def. Morga/Josephine Cao (Memphis), 6-3
Order of finish: 1, 3
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