Women's Tennis Drops Home Match Against No. 25 UCF

Saturday, February 29

New Orleans

Noon

Tulane University

UCF

Photo by: Parker Waters

Women's Tennis Drops Home Match Against No. 25 UCF

Feb 29, 2020 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

NEW ORLEANS - Facing their first ranked opponent of the season, the Tulane women's tennis team suffered a 7-0 home defeat to No. 25 UCF on Saturday afternoon at the City Park Tennis Center.

The Green Wave (6-6) were short-handed, as the Knights (8-3) grabbed an early advantage with a walkover win at No.3 doubles, before sweeping the contest with a pair of 6-2 wins on courts one and two, respectively, to take a 1-0 lead into singles.

UCF remained in control, winning by walkover on court six, before collecting three consecutive straight-set wins on courts five, one and four to push its advantage to 5-0. Freshman Lahari Yelamanchili won the second set, 6-4, at No. 3 singles to force a third-set tiebreaker. Unfortunately, the Knights held on for an 11-9 win for their sixth team point of the day. UCF finished the day with one more straight-set win on court two to complete the shutout.

Tulane turns around to face No. 29 Old Dominion on Sunday at noon in City Park.

#25 UCF 7, Tulane 0
Singles competition
1. Evgeniya Levashova (UCF) def. Mackenzie Clark (TLN) 6-1, 6-3
2. Ksenia Kuznetsova (UCF) def. Adelaide Lavery (TLN) 7-6, 7-6 (7-5)
3. Nandini Sharma (UCF) def. Lahari Yelamanchili (TLN) 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (11-9)
4. Domenika Turkovic (UCF) def. Lauren Gish (TLN) 6-4, 6-4
5. Sara Culbertson (UCF) def. Christina Sisti (TLN) 6-2, 6-3
6. Valentina Martin (UCF) won by walkover
Doubles competition
1. #29 Ksenia Kuznetsova/Valeriya Zeleva (UCF) def. Lauren Gish/Mackenzie Clark (TLN) 6-2
2. Evgeniya Levashova/Domenika Turkovic (UCF) def. Lahari Yelamanchili/Christina Sisti (TLN) 6-2
3. Nandini Sharma/Marie Mattel (UCF) won by walkover

Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (6,5,1,4,3,2)

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