Sunday, May 11, 2008

Tennis News -
At $75K Zagreb Challenger, Croatia (clay)

[F] (2) CZINK Melinda (HUN)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) bt FORETZ Stephanie (FRA)/ KOSTANIC TOSIC Jelena (CRO) 64 62

Congratulation Sunitha!!! Excellent result, Sunitha gets 55 pts with this title ... That means she will be inside top-115 doubles ranking her personal best as her previous best was #118 in April 2008.
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At 2008 NCAA Division I Men's/Women's Team Championship,

Top-seed the Cavaliers started with easy victory over Fairleigh Dickinson, 4-0 ... In second round they will meet #39 Penn State, who scored upset win over #27 VCU ... This was their first victory in the modern-day 64-team NCAA Championship format, which began in 1999.

Somdev and Treat Huey won their doubles match ... Sanam also partnering Houston Barrick scored easy victory.

No. 1 Virginia bt Fairleigh Dickinson 4-0

Doubles -
1. #1 Devvarman/Huey (UVa) bt Gordon/Girling (FDU) 8-2
2. Shabaz/Inglot (UVa) led Stephen/Blanco (FDU) 7-3 DNF
3. Barrick/Singh (UVa) bt Gross/Eddins (FDU) 8-1

Singles -
1. #1 Somdev Devvarman (UVa) led Philip Stephen (FDU) 6-2, 0-1 DNF
2. #28 Treat Huey (UVa) led Matt Gordon (FDU) 5-4 DNF
3. #17 Dominic Inglot (UVa) led Josh Girling (FDU) 6-3, 2-0 DNF
4. Sanam Singh (UVa) bt Priit Gross (FDU) 6-0, 6-0
5. Michael Shabaz (UVa) bt Kyle Eddins (FDU) 6-1, 6-3
6. Ted Angelinos (UVa) bt Keiichiro Adachi (FDU) 6-0, 6-2

Order of Finish - Doubles- 3,1 • Singles- 6,4,5
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In women’s team event, #9th seed Duke scored 4-0 victory over #24 William & Mary in the NCAA Tournament second round on Saturday to move to final 16 ... In first round they defeated Washington State.

Tara scored doubles victory with Jessi Robinson ... But importantly she scored huge victory in singles over #12 Megan Moulton-Levy.


#9 Duke University bt #24 William & Mary 4-0

Doubles -
1. #7 Amanda Granson/Melissa Mang (DU) vs #10 Megan Moulton-Levy/Katarina Zoricic (WM) unfinished
2. Tara Iyer/Jessi Robinson (DU) bt Ragini Acharya/Klaudyna Kasztelaniec (WM) 8-2
3. Ellah Nze/Reka Zsilinszka (DU) bt Carmen Pop/Lauren Sabacinski (WM) 8-2

Singles -
1. #125 Tara Iyer (DU) bt #12 Megan Moulton-Levy (WM) 62 64
2. #21 Ellah Nze (DU) vs Katarina Zoricic (WM) (62 46) unfinished
3. #24 Reka Zsilinszka (DU) vs #119 Ragini Acharya (WM) (57 1-2) unfinished
4. Melissa Mang (DU) bt Klaudyna Kasztelaniec (WM) 60 61
5. Amanda Granson (DU) bt Lauren Sabacinski (WM) 60 64
6. Carmen Pop (WM) bt Jessi Robinson (DU) 75 60

Order of finish - Doubles (3,2) • Singles (6,4,5,1)

Washington lost in the first round against Wisconsin ... Alabama lost against South Alabama ... That means Washington's Jeevan Nenducheziyan and Alabama's Saketh Myneni challenge got over in the team event.

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