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Kansas State Defeats Mizzou, 5-2
3/14/2008 12:00:00 AM | Tennis
March 14, 2008
Columbia, Mo. - The Kansas State Wildcats (5-5/1-1 Big 12) defeated the University of Missouri women's tennis team (8-6/0-2 Big 12), 5-2, Friday afternoon on the Green Tennis Center's outdoor courts in Columbia. Kansas State won four three-set singles matches, and another in straight sets to take the win over the Tigers, who won the doubles point and one singles match.
"We didn't play bad," Tiger Head Coach Blake Starkey said. "We just didn't play well enough to win. Credit Kansas State, they outplayed us. We have a good match against a good (Kansas) team Sunday and we're hopefully going to bounce back and be ready."
The Tigers play the 55th-ranked Jayhawks at noon Sunday. The Border Showdown match will also serve as fan appreciation day at the Green Tennis Center.
Friday, the Tigers started the match off on a high note by winning the doubles point, 2-1. After K-State's No. 1 duo of Olga Klimova and Katka Kudlackova beat Mizzou's Chrissy Svetlic and Mallory Weber, Mizzou took the Nos. 2 and 3 doubles matches to earn the first point of the day.
At No. 2, Kaitlin Dunham and Sofia Ayala defeated Viviana Yrureta and Antea Huljev, 8-6. The match went back and fourth in the beginning, but after the K-State duo tied it at 5-5, the Dunham and Ayala won three of the next four to take the 8-6 win.
Mizzou's No. 3 duo of Jessica Giuggioli and Kaitlyn Ritchie also won a close match. After K-State's Vanessa Cottin and Natasha Viera tied the match at 7-7, Ritchie and Giuggioli won the final two points to put it away and give the Tigers an early 1-0 lead in the match.
Giuggioli would take that momentum straight into singles play, winning her match at No. 2, 7-6 (4), 6-3, over Huljev. This is Giuggioli's seventh win at No. 2 singles. She is 7-2 there this spring.
But the doubles point and the No. 2 singles match would be the only bright spots for the Tigers Friday, as the Wildcats took the other five singles matches to win, 5-2.
At No. 1, Yrureta won the first set, 6-4, but Weber came back to win the second, 6-3, to send the match to a third set. Yrureta wasted little time winning the third set, however, taking a 6-2 set win to win the match, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
Svetlic also went down in the first set, but won her second set to extend her match against Kudlackova, but Kudlackova also took the third set, 6-2, to take the match, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2.
At No. 4 singles, Cottin defeated Dunham in straight sets, taking a 6-3, 6-3, victory.
In a marathon three-set match that lasted three hours and 45 minutes, K-State's Viera defeated Mizzou freshman Maureen Modesto, winning the No. 5 singles match, 6-4, 6-7 (8-6), 7-6 (5). And at No. 6, Klimova defeated Ritchie, also in a long three-set match, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
The seven-hour match was the first Tiger home match played outdoors this season. Temperatures remained in the 50's during the entire afternoon and evening, with partly cloudy skies and a slight northeast wind that picked up as the sun set in the western sky.
Results
Kansas State 5 (5-5/1-1 Big 12) Missouri 2 (8-6/0-2 Big 12)
Friday, March 14, 2008
Green Tennis Center - Outdoor Courts
Columbia, Mo.
Match Time: 7:00
Singles
1) Viviana Yrureta (KSU) def. Mallory Weber (MU) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
2) Jessica Giuggioli (MU) def. Antea Huljev (KSU) 7-6 (4), 6-3
3) Katka Kudlackova (KSU) def. Chrissy Svetlic (MU) 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-2
4) Vanessa Cottin (KSU) def. Kaitlin Dunham (MU) 6-3, 6-3
5) Natasha Viera (KSU) def. Maureen Modesto (MU), 6-4, 6-7 (8-6), 7-6 (5)*
* 3 hours and 45 minutes
6) Olga Klimova (KSU) def. Kaitlyn Ritchie (MU) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
Order of finish: 4, 1, 2, 3, 6*, 5
*Clinched victory for K-State
Doubles
1) Klimova/Kudlackova (KSU) def. Svetlic/Weber (MU), 8-2
2) Dunham/Sofia Ayala (MU) def. Yrureta/Huljev (KSU), 8-6
3) Giuggioli/Ritchie (MU) def. Cottin/Viera (KSU), 9-7
Order of finish: 1, 2, 3
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