Tennis Drops Match to FDU, 6-1
10/20/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The Seton Hall tennis team fell, 6-1, to Fairleigh Dickinson on Tuesday. The Pirates were in most of the matches on the day, but sophomore Karina Cordero (Maracay Estado Aragua, Venezuela) picked up the only team point.
Cordero won her No. 6 singles match over Emily Napier, 8-4. The players played just one pro-style set since the Knights had already clinched the dual match victory.
Cordero also teamed with Belfin Sunbul (Izmir, Turkey) for a No. 3 doubles win against Dzana Ferhatbegovic and Napier, 8-4.
Freshmen Pui Wing Sher (Shui Wai, Hong Kong) and Rocio Portela (Demetrio Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) teamed up in No. 1 singles and played Elimine Botes and Inha Dementyeva to a tiebreak, but ultimately fell, 9-8 (4).
Sher had another close match in her No. 1 singles contest against Botes. Sher took an early lead in set one, but Botes rallied to take the first set in a tiebreak, 7-6 (5). The players dueled to another tiebreak in the second set, and Botes finished the match with a 7-6 (2) set win.
Sunbul played a close match with Magav Leme in No. 3 singles. Leme took set one, 4-6, but Sunbul forced a third frame with a 7-6 (4), and narrowly missed out on a win after dropping the deciding set, 10-8.
Junior Courtney Kilarski (Roseville, Calif.) got off to a fast start in No. 5 singles against against Ferhatbegovic in the first set, and coasted to a 6-1 win. She was then shutout in the second set, and lost 10-5 in the third.
Sher and Portela will compete in the main draw in singles and doubles at the ITA Regionals this weekend. Junior Elizabeth Verow (Barnt Green, England) and Kilarski will play in a doubles qualifying round to break into the main draw.
FDU 6 Seton Hall 1
Doubles
1. Botes/Dementyeva (FDU) def. Sher/Portela (SHU) 9-8(4)
2. Morina/Leme (FDU) def. Verow/Kilarski (SHU) 8-1
3. Sunbul/Cordero (SHU) def. Ferhatbegovic/Napier 8-6
Singles
1. Elimine Botes (FDU) def Pui Wing Sher (SHU) 7-6(5) 7-6(2)
2. Inha Dementyeva (FDU) def Rocio Portela 6-2, 6-1
3. Magav Leme (FDU) def Belfin Sunbul (SHU) 4-6, 7-6(4) 10-8
4. Egzona Morina (FDU) def Lizzie Verow (SHU)
5. Dzana Ferhatbegovic (FDU) def Courtney Kilarski (SHU) 1-6, 6-0, 10-5
6. Karina Cordero (SHU) def Emily Napier (SHU) 8-4
