Jan. 18, 2009
LAS VEGAS - UNLV's remaining entry lost in the second flight final of doubles play on Sunday to help close out the seventh annual Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
Alisa Razina and Anna Maskaljun fell to USC's Leyla Entekhabi and Cristala Andrews (USC) 8-5 to end the host school's regular action. However, two Lady Rebels did pick up singles wins as part of the event's additional matches final-day feature.
Top singles player Kristina Nedeltcheva notched her second win over a ranked opponent in three days with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 rally over No. 83 Shinann Featherson of North Carolina. Sophomore Adrienn Hidvegi also finished on a high note with a 6-3, 6-7, 1-0 (11-9) super-tiebreaker defeat of Ashlee Brown of Arizona State.
Next up, UNLV opens it dual match schedule on Friday by hosting New Mexico State starting at 10 a.m.
2009 FREEMAN MEMORIALTENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPSAt Fertitta Tennis Complex, Las Vegas, NV
TEAM KEY & CURRENT NATIONAL ITA RANKINGUCLA (UCLA) 3Baylor (BU) 4Stanford (STAN) 5Florida (UF) 7Georgia Tech (GT) 8Southern California (USC) 10Fresno State (FS) 15North Carolina (UNC) 18Arizona State (ASU) 21UNLV 39Oregon (UO) 55
FLIGHT ONE SINGLES (JAN. 18)FINAL(5) Irina Falconi (GT) def. Sarah Fansler (USC) 6-3, 6-7, 6-3
CONSOLATION FINALRenata Kucerkova (FS) def. (4) Taylor Ormond (BU) 2-6, 6-1, RETIRED
FLIGHT TWO SINGLES (JAN. 18)FINALTinesta Rowe (FS) def. Lindsay Kinstler (USC) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6
CONSOLATION FINALSianna Simmons (ASU) def. Madeline Janse van Rensburg (UO) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
FLIGHT ONE DOUBLES (JAN. 18)SEMIFINALS(4) Katrina Tsang/Shinann Featherston (UNC) def. Kelcy McKenna/Micaela Hein (ASU) 8-6(1) Renata Kucerkova/Anastasia Petukhova (FS) def. (3) Amanda McDowell/Irina Falconi (GT) 8-5
FINAL(1) Renata Kucerkova/Anastasia Petukhova (FS) def. (4) Katrina Tsang/Shinann Featherston (UNC) 8-5
CONSOLATION SEMFINALSMelanie Gloria/Tinesta Rowe (FS) def. (2) Lenka Broosova/Csilla Borsanyi (BU) 9-8Ashlee Brown/Sianna Simmons (ASU) def. Taylor Ormond/Jelena Stanivuk (BU) 8-4
CONSOLATION FINALMelanie Gloria/Tinesta Rowe (FS) def. Ashlee Brown/Sianna Simmons (ASU) BY DEFAULT
FLIGHT TWO DOUBLES (Jan. 18)FINALLeyla Entekhabi/Cristala Andrews (USC) def. Anna Maskalkun/Alisa Razina (UNLV) 8-5
ADDITIONAL SINGLES MATCHES (Jan. 18)(1) Kelcy McKenna (ASU) def. (7) Csilla Borsanyi (BU) 5-7, 5-2 RETIREDLenka Broosova (BU) def. Carmen Seremeta (UO) 6-1, 6-0(2) Amanda McDowell (GT) def. Courtney Clayton (STAN) 6-2, 6-0Katrina Tsang (UNC) def. Ashley Joelson (UCLA) 6-3, 6-3Kristina Nedeltcheva (UNLV) def. Shinann Featherson (UNC) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1Nina Pantic (UCLA) def. Jelena Durisic (UNC) 6-3, 6-2Carling Seguso (UCLA) def. Katy Williams (UNLV) 6-3, 6-4Christina Ngo (GT) def. Nikol Dimitrova (UNLV) 7-5, 2-6, 1-0 (10-5)Trudie Du Toit (UO) def. Rumyana Terzieva (UNLV) 7-5, 0-6, 6-1Laura Pola (FS) def. Sasha Krupina (GT) 6-2, 6-2Adrienn Hidvegi (UNLV) def. Ashlee Brown (ASU) 6-3, 6-7, 1-0 (11-9)
ADDITIONAL DOUBLES MATCHES (Jan. 18)Ashley Joelson/Carling Seguso (UCLA) def. JoAnna Mather/Barbara Pinterova (UF) 9-7Jessica Nguyen/Logan Hansen (STAN) def. Marit Boonstra/Anastasia Revzina (UF) 8-2Carolyn McVeigh/Courtney Clayton (STAN) def. Pavlina Smatova/Carmen Seremeta (UO) 8-2Nina Pantic/Anna Victoria Lind (UCLA) def. Sasha Krupina/Christina Ngo (GT) 9-8
