The university tennis team kicked off the 2019-2020 season with a strong performance at the St. Mary’s Quad hosted at the Annemarie Tennis Center in San Antonio.
Day one saw the Javelinas with a .500-win percentage in doubles play.
Senior Valerie Ruiz and sophomore Maya Donkor took on Abigail Csengery and Charli Delmonico of St. Mary’s and Taylor Parkinson and Sophia Kermet of Incarnate Word.
Ruiz and Donkor lost their first pairing to the St. Mary’s duo, 8-5. The Javelina pair bounced back in round two with an 8-6 win over Parkinson and Kermet.
The first flight also saw Blue and Gold athletes Victoria Romanovskaia and Franka Sindicic prevail over Kermet and Park, 8-5. The duo would lose their second match to Rattler-teammates Ashley Penshorn and Marina Virgil.
Freshman Daniela Koleva and senior Stephanie Baerman suffered a day one loss at the hands of Maria Garcia and Alice Thane of St. Mary’s before bouncing back with a victory over Bailey Denton and Jade Sosa of Texas Lutheran University (TLU).
Julia Rauer and Laura Moltavo split their day one matches. The duo hammered Kaitlyn Enloe and Samantha Stafford of TLU, 8-1, before dropping their final match to Garcia and Thane.
Romanovskai, Ruiz, Koleva and Baerman put tallies in the win column during day one’s single flight.
The final day of action came to an impressive end with three perfect singles matches.
Before the singles flight performances, Ruiz and Donkor swept Mary Eby and Madison Starr of TLU, 8-0, and Montalvo and Rauer captured a win over Sosa and Denton.
Sindicic and Romanovskaia fell victim to strong play from Csengery and Delmonico.
In the day two singles flight, Romanovskaia kicked things off with a straight set victory over Virgil, 7-6 and 6-3.
The first perfect win came from Montalvo with her 6-0, 6-0 victory over Parkinson.
Sindicic and Ruiz picked up wins for the Blue and Gold against Ioannou from St. Mary’s and Samantha Stafford of TLU, respectively. The second and third perfect games came from Rauer and Donkor. Rauer failed to drop a point in her 6-0, 6-0 victory over Kaitlyn Ehloe of TLU. Donkor bested Jessie Behal in her final quad match.
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