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No. 37 Golden Hurricane Clips Jayhawks, 5-2
2/19/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Feb. 19, 2011
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Senior Jo-Anne Karaitiana and sophomore Michelle Farley both picked up two wins to help lead The University of Tulsa women's tennis team to a 5-2 victory over the University of Kansas Saturday afternoon at Jayhawk Tennis Facility.
The No. 37-ranked Golden Hurricane (7-2) won all three doubles matches and captured four of the six singles matches over the floundering Jayhawks (1-3).
The senior duo of Alexandra Kichoutkin and Karaitiana took down Ekaterina Morozova and Dylan Windom 8-2 from No. 1 doubles, and junior Bonny Davidson and Farley put Tulsa on the board early with an 8-3 triumph over Victoria Khanevskaya and Paulina Los from the third position.
The junior partnership of Ewa Szatkowska and Anastasia Erofeeva made it a clean sweep in doubles play with an 8-5 win over Erin Wilbert and Monica Pezzotti from the second slot.
Kichoutkin and Karaitiana improved to 6-2 this spring season. The other two doubles teams are both 6-1.
Kichoutkin collected her 79th career doubles victory, which moved her into a tie with Jana Sedivec (1998-02) for third place in school history. Erofeeva won her 65th career doubles match and is one win shy of moving into a tie for eighth with Santie Delport (2003-07) and Jie Zeng (2006-10).
Karaitiana bounced back in a huge way from a recent four-match losing skid as she sailed past Pezzotti at No. 2 singles with a 6-1, 6-2 rout, and Farley moved to 8-1 this spring with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Windom from the fourth position.
Kansas cut into the Tulsa lead with a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 1 singles from Morozova over Kichoutkin, but Szatkowska sealed the deal for the visiting Golden Hurricane from the third position with a 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 triumph over Los. Szatkowska improved her current win streak to four matches.
The fifth and sixth singles matches were split, giving Tulsa the 5-2 victory. Freshman Sam Vickers defeated Khanevskaya 7-6 (11-9), 6-2 at No. 6, and Davidson fell to Wilbert, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
The loss for Davidson was her first this spring, snapping a six-match win streak, and Vickers improved to 3-1 during her brief career.
Tulsa will take the 45-minute trip down I-70 for a match with No. 51-ranked Kansas State University at noon Feb. 20. KSU is 7-0 this year, which is the best start for the program since 1989.
Tennis Match Results
Feb 19, 2011 at Lawrence, Kan.
(Jayhawk Tennis Facility)
#37 Tulsa 5, Kansas 2
Singles competition
1. Ekaterina Morozova (KU) def. Alexandra Kichoutkin (TLS) 6-3, 6-2
2. Jo-Anne Karaitiana (TLS) def. Monica Pezzotti (KU) 6-1, 6-2
3. Ewa Szatkowska (TLS) def. Paulina Los (KU) 2-6, 7-5, 6-1
4. Michelle Farley (TLS) def. Dylan Windom (KU) 7-5, 6-2
5. Erin Wilbert (KU) def. Bonny Davidson (TLS) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
6. Sam Vickers (TLS) def. Victoria Khanevskaya (KU) 7-6 (11-9), 6-2
Doubles competition
1. Alexandra Kichoutkin/Jo-Anne Karaitiana (TLS) def. Ekaterina Morozova/Dylan Windom (KU) 8-2
2. Ewa Szatkowska/Anastasia Erofeeva (TLS) def. Erin Wilbert/Monica Pezzotti (KU) 8-5
3. Bonny Davidson/Michelle Farley (TLS) def. Victoria Khanevskaya/Paulina Los (KU) 8-3
Match Notes:
Tulsa 7-2; National ranking #37
Kansas 1-3
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (2,1,4,3,5,6)
