Nov. 8, 2002

TEMPE, Ariz. - Two of the three UNLV women's tennis players competing at the Arizona State Thunderbirds Invitational at the Whiteman Tennis Center advanced to the quarterfinals on Friday.

Paulina Janus, ranked No. 79 in the nation, won both her matches on Friday. She opened with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Arizona State's Joslynn Burkett and followed with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Kansas State's Petra Sedimajerova.

Gyorgyi Zsiros, ranked No. 76 in the nation, also advanced to the Saturday quarterfinals. She defeated San Diego State's Catherine Heppell 6-0, 6-2 and Arizona State's Lauren Colalillo 6-1, 7-5.

Agnieszka Abram advanced to the second round with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Kansas State's Jessica Simosa, but dropped her second match to Duke's Katie Blaszk 6-3, 6-4.

In double's action, the team of Janus and Abram defeated San Diego's Heppell and Livesay 8-2 to advance to the quarterfinals.

"Today was a great day for the UNLV tennis team," said UNLV head coach Kevin Cory. "With their being four top-20 teams in this tournament, we feel really good about the fact that we have two players in the quarterfinal singles and the only doubles team we entered is also in the quarterfinals."

Doubles action continues at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday with singles beginning at 9:30 a.m.