Box Score

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - In the first meeting of the two programs since 1991, the UNLV women's tennis team lost 5-2 to 28th-ranked Purdue at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on Thursday.

The Rebels dropped to 5-10 on the year while the Boilermakers won their seventh straight match to improve to 9-2.

Purdue won both completed doubles matches to forge a 1-0 lead.

In singles play, the visitors won four matches to clinch it but UNLV picked up points in the heart of the lineup as Paola Artiga downed Deborah Suarez, 6-1, 2-6, 1-0 (10-2) in a super-tiebreaker at No. 4 and Mercedes Lopez Valez swept Nicole Robinson 6-0, 6-3 on court five.

UNLV will return to the courts on Saturday when its hosts Columbia, starting with doubles at 10 a.m. Admission is free of charge.

UNLV WOMEN'S TENNIS RESULTS#28 PURDUE 5, UNLV 2March 19, 2015, at Las Vegas(Fertitta Tennis Complex)
Singles competition 1. Daniela Vidal (PUR) def. Santa Shumilina (UNLV) 6-0, 6-12. T.Bernard-Feigenbaum (PUR) def. Anett Ferenczi-Bako (UNLV) 6-1, 6-13. Lynda Xepoleas (PUR) def. Iren Kotseva (UNLV) 6-2, 6-24. Paola Artiga (UNLV) def. Deborah Suarez (PUR) 6-1, 2-6, 1-0 (10-2)5. Mercedes Lopez Valez (UNLV) def. Nicole Robinson (PUR) 6-0, 6-36. Krisztina Kapitany (PUR) def. Alexis Garrett (UNLV) 6-4, 6-2
Doubles competition 1. #43 Daniela Vidal/T.Bernard-Feigenbaum (PUR) def. Anett Ferenczi-Bako/Lopez Valez (UNLV) 6-32. Lynda Xepoleas/Natalia Davila (PUR) def. Santa Shumilina/Paola Artiga (UNLV) 6-23. Iren Kotseva/Alexis Garrett (UNLV) vs. Nicole Robinson/Krisztina Kapitany (PUR) 5-4, unfinished