Tulane Women’s Tennis Tops South Alabama

Friday, April 15

Mobile, AL

2 p.m.

Tulane University

University of South Alabama

Apr 15, 2022 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

MOBILE, ALA. – The Tulane University women's tennis team finished the regular season in the win column as the Wave defeated South Alabama 4-1 on the road on Friday. The Green Wave picked up the doubles point before building a 3-0 lead until it closed out the victory in singles play.

With the win, Tulane improves to 12-8 on the season and finishes with a 3-6 mark in matches outside of New Orleans on the year.

The match started in favor of the Wave as the pairings of Mackenzie Clark and Kristen Borland and Adelaide Lavery and Jiayun Zhu earned wins to secure the doubles point for Tulane.

Moving into singles action, Borland put Tulane up 2-0 by earning a two-set win on court four 6-1, 6-3. After the Jaguars picked up their first point of the day, Lavery responded with another point for the Green Wave to make the score 3-1 after a two-set win 6-4, 7-6. Charlotte Russell clinched the match for Tulane with her 12^th singles win of the spring as she won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 to give Tulane the 4-1 victory overall.

Up next, the Green Wave will head to the American Athletic Conference tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The tournament begins Wednesday, April 20, at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Tulane (12-8) defeated South Alabama (19-4), 4-1
April 15, 2022, in Mobile, Ala.
Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts

Doubles

67 Charlotte Russell/Lahari Yelamanchili (Tulane) vs. Nikola Kohoutova/Luminita Tutunaru (USA) 4-5, unfinished
Kristen Borland/Mackenzie Clark (Tulane) def. Yu Fujioka/ Lara van der Merwe (USA) 6-3
Adelaide Lavery/Jiayun Zhu (Tulane) def. Milka Pasanen/Otoha Aoki 6-2

Order of Finish – 2,3*
*Clinched the doubles point

Singles

Mackenzie Clark (Tulane) vs. Nikola Kohoutova (USA) 4-6, 6-6 (0-5), unfinished
Yu Fujoka (USA) def. Lahari Yelamanchli (Tulane) 6-4, 6-4
Adelaide Lavery (Tulane) def. Luminita Tutunaru (USA) 6-4, 7-6
Kristen Borland (Tulane) def. Otoha Aoki (USA) 6-1, 6-3
Charlotte Russell (Tulane) def. Lara van der Merwe (USA) 6-3, 6-4
Jiayun Zhu (Tulane) vs. Delien Kleinhans (USA) 7-5, 4-2, unfinished

Order of Finish – 4,2,3,5^
^Clinched the overall match

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