LSU Wins Four of Six Doubles Matches on Day Two at the Wildcat Invitational
Saturday, 01/14/2012
EVANSTON Ill. – The LSU Lady Tigers Tennis team began day two of the Wildcat Invitational in style with three straight victories over doubles teams from the University of Illinois at Chicago on Saturday inside the Combe Tennis Center on the Northwestern campus.
“We played really well in doubles, and some solid singles today,” LSU head coach Tony Minnis said. “We faced some really tough competition so I was really pleased with our play overall.”
Whitney Wolf and Keri Frankenberger started the day firing on all cylinders, cruising to an 8-0 victory over UIC’s Polina Guimaraes and Teona Tsertsvadze. Olivia Howlett and Yvette Vlaar then took down Maria Kovaleva and Hayley Craig 8-2. Kaitlin Burns and Ariel Morton closed out the morning for the Lady Tigers with an 8-4 win over Elisa Simonetti and Jana Knoppe.
In mid-day matches, Morton and Burns kept their stellar play going with an 8-3 victory over Kovaleva and Craig. Wolf and Frankenberger fell to Northwestern’s Belinda Niu and Veronica Corning in a tightly contested 9-7 match. Guimaraes and Tsertvadze defeated Howlett and Vlaar in a tiebreaker 9-8 (3).
LSU finished the day with singles matches against No. 12 Northwestern, highlighted by victories for Frankenberger and Vlaar over Linda Abu Mushrefova 6-3, 6-4 and Natalie Edell 6-4, 6-0 respectively.
Corning defeated Howlett 6-4, 3-6, 10-7. Niu beat Burns 6-1, 6-2 and Nida Hamilton prevailed over Bodine 6-2, 6-2.
The Wildcat Invitational will resume Sunday at 9 a.m. CT.
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Wildcat Invitational
Saturday Jan. 14, 2012
LSU vs UIC (Doubles)
Wolf/Frankenberger (LSU) def. Guimaraes/ Tsertsvadze (UIC) 8-0
Howlett/Vlaar (LSU) def. Kovaleva/Craig (UIC) 8-2
Morton/Burns (LSU) def. Simonetti/Knoppe 8-4
Other Matches
Niu/Corning (NU) def. Wolf/Frankenberger(LSU) 9-7
Morton/Burns (LSU) def. Neumann/Lawson (Depaul) 8-3
Guimaraes/Tsertsuadze (UIC) def. Howlett/Vlaar (LSU) 9-8 (3)
Northwestern vs. LSU (singles)
Corning (NU) def. Howlett (LSU) 6-4, 3-6, 10-7
Niu(NU) def. Burns (LSU) 6-1, 6-2
Frankenberger (LSU) def. Mushrefova (NU) 6-3, 6-4
Hamilton (NU) def. Bodine (LSU) 6-2, 6-2
Vlaar (LSU) def. Edell (NU) 6-4, 6-0
Sunday, Jan. 15
9:00 a.m. – TBA
