LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) – UNLV's top doubles team of
Aiwen Zhu and
En-Pei Huang will play for the doubles crown on Sunday at 17th Annual Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
The Rebel team, which came into the weekend unranked, advanced Saturday by upsetting No. 43 Anastasia Iamachkine and Jessica Failla of Pepperdine – the same Waves duo that shocked the nation's No. 7 doubles team from Stanford in Friday's first round.
UNLV will not have to play its Sunday semifinal match because its opponent, third-seeded and 12
th-ranked Jada Hart and Elysia Bolton of UCLA, withdrew after an injury. Zhu and Huang will face the winner of Sunday morning's other semifinal between Melissa Lord and Niluka Madurawe of Stanford and Fernanda Labrana and Bojana Markovic of Texas.
The doubles final is scheduled to begin at approximately 11 a.m. Admission to all matches is free of charge.
Zhu, however, was not as fortunate in singles play on Saturday as the senior was ousted in the quarterfinals of the main draw, 7-6, 6-4, by Florida's Marlee Zein. Two other Rebels,
Samantha Li and
Alex Kalachova, both lost their semifinal outing in Flight Two.
Individual competitors this weekend hail from teams that include half of the top dozen from the season's initial ITA rankings: No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Pepperdine, No. 8 UCLA and No. 11 Florida.
SCHEDULE OF PLAY
Sunday
Doubles Semifinal 10:00 a.m.
Doubles Final Follows
Singles Final Follows
2019 FREEMAN MEMORIAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
At Fertitta Tennis Complex, Las Vegas, NV
TEAM KEY & CURRENT NATIONAL ITA RANKING
Stanford (STAN) 1
North Carolina (UNC) 3
Texas (TX) 6
Pepperdine (PEPP) 7
UCLA (UCLA) 8
Florida (UF) 11
UNLV (UNLV)
SINGLES FLIGHT ONE QUARTERFINALS (Jan. 19)
Adriana Lekaj (PEPP) def. Jessie Aney (UNC) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Marlee Zein (UF) def.
Aiwen Zhu (UNLV) 7-6, 6-4
(4) #53 Petra Granic (TX) def. Niluka Madurawe (STAN) 6-2, 6-3
Melissa Lord (STAN) def. (2) #29 McCartney Kessler (UF) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
SINGLES FLIGHT ONE SEMIFINALS (Jan. 19)
Adriana Lekaj (PEPP) def. Marlee Zein (UF) by default
(4) #53 Petra Granic (TX) def. Melissa Lord (STAN) 7-6 6-1
SINGLES FLIGHT ONE CONSOLATION ROUND TWO (Jan. 19)
#9 Ida Jarlskog (UF) def. #77 Fernanda Lablana (TX) 6-4, 6-4
#49 Anna Turati (TX) def. #106 Ashley Lahey (PEPP) 6-2, 6-2
#113 Abi Altick (UCLA) def. Chloe Oullet-Pizer (UNC) 6-2, 6-4
Ayan Broomfield (UCLA) def. Satsuki Takamura (PEPP) 6-1, 6-3
SINGLES FLIGHT TWO SEMIFINALS (Jan. 19)
Gabby Andrews (UCLA) def.
Samantha Li (UNLV) 6-4, 6-4
Anastasia Iamachikine (PEPP) def.
Alex Kalachova (UNLV) 6-3, 6-1
SATURDAY ADDED SINGLES MATCHES (Jan. 19)
Katie Poluta (TX) def. Sydney Berlin (UF) 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-6)
Connie Li (UNLV) def. Katie LaFrance (UCLA) 6-4, 6-1
En-Pei Huang (UNLV) def. Katie Kubicz (UF) 7-5, 6-2
Izumi Asano (UNLV) def. #63 Tijana Spasojevic (TX) 7-5, 6-3
Caroline Lampl (STAN) def. Bojana Markovic (TX) 6-3, 6-2
Alaina Miller (UCLA) def.
Anna Bogoslavets (UNLV) 6-1, 6-1
Kimberly Lee (STAN) def. Anastasia Khartionova (UF) 6-3, 6-2
Taylor Johnson (UCLA) def. Dzina Milovanovic (PEPP) 7-5, 6-1
DOUBLES QUARTERFINALS (Jan. 19)
Lord/Madurawe (STAN) def. (1) #6 Andrews/Broomfield (UCLA) 6-2
Labrana/Markovic (TX) def. (4) #41 Dimitrova/Jarlskog (UF) 7-5
(3) #12 Hart/Bolton (UCLA) def. Granic/Spasojevic (TX) 7-6
Zhu/Huang (UNLV) def. #43 Failla/Iamachikine (PEPP) 6-4
Zhu/Huang (UNLV) def. (3) #12 Hart/Bolton (UCLA) by injury default
(will play winner of Stanford vs. Texas Sunday at 11 a.m.)
SATURDAY ADDED DOUBLES MATCHES (Jan. 19)
Kharltonova/Zein (UF) def.
Connie Li/Asano (UNLV) 6-2
Allick/Johnson (UCLA) def. Lagey/Lekaj (PEPP) 7-6
Milovanovic/Kuczer (PEPP) def. Kessler/Berlin (UF) 7-5
Aney/Oulett-Pizer (UNC) def.
Samantha Li/Kalachova (UNLV) 6-4
Poluta/Turati (TX) def. Yee/Lampl (STAN) 6-3
