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Lady Tiger Tennis Drops Season Opener, 4-1
Jan 31, 2003 | Women's Tennis
Jan. 31, 2003
Starkville, Miss. - Despite senior Monica Gonzalez-Gordo's straight set win at No. 2 singles, The University of Memphis women's tennis team dropped its season opener at Mississippi State University, 4-1, Friday.
Gonzalez-Gordo won her No. 2 singles match with a Marcelle Hirt, 6-1, 7-5. Gonzalez-Gordo also teamed with Sabrina Lindemann to post a 9-8 win at No. 1 singles. The Memphis duo, which is ranked 54th in the country, downed the team of Magdi Rekasi and Anastasia Kugakolova.
Memphis will face another SEC foe, Sunday, when the Lady Tigers travel to Oxford. That match is slated to begin at 2 p.m.
Mississippi State 4, Memphis 1
Doubles -- Mississippi State Wins Doubles Point
Singles
No. 1 -- Sabrina Lindemann/Monica Gonzalez-Gordo (UM) def. Anastasia Kugakolova/Magdi Rekasi, 9-8
No. 2 -- Elaine Fagan/Yumi Ueda def. Marlene Dirnstorfer/Sumitra Rao (UM), 8-4
No. 3 -- Marcelle Hirt/Justyna Switala def. Andrea Feichtinger/Victoria Gruber (UM), 8-2
No. 1 -- Magdi Rekasi def. Sabrina Lindemann (UM) 1-6, 6-3, 11-9
No. 2 -- Monica Gonzalez-Gordo (UM) def. Marcelle Hirt, 6-1, 7-5
No. 3 -- Anastasia Kugakolva def. Sumitra Rao (UM) 6-3, 7-5
No. 4 -- Yumi Ueda def. Viktoria Gruber (UM), 6-3, 6-1
No. 5 --Marlene Dirnstorfer (UM) vs. Justyna Switala, DNP
No. 6 -- Andrea Feichtinger (UM) vs. Elaine Fagan, DNP
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