ORLANDO, Fla. – The No. 18 UCF women's tennis team topped Yale on Thursday, March 24, by a score of 4-1 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.
Despite the gloomy day, the Knights brought the heat to clinch the doubles point.
Yale was able to get the first court as Noel Saidenova and Jaleesa Leslie fell to Kathy Wang and Caroline Dunleavy by a score of 2-6, but on court two Sophia Biolay and Nandini Sharma topped Mirabelle Brettkelly and Rhea Shrivastava, 6-3, to even it up.
The doubles point came down to court one where the No. 28 duo of Evgeniya Levashova and Marie Mattel faced Chelsea Kung and Jessie Gong. The Knights found themselves down 1-3 but made a comeback to win the match 6-4 to clinch the doubles point and extend their winning streak to six.
In singles, Sophia Biolay kept the fire going as she defeated Rhea Shrivastava on court five, 6-2, 6-4.
Noel Saidenova was just edged out in both sets, falling to Caroline Dunleavy on court two, 5-7, 6-7(1), to give the Bulldogs their first point.
On court six, Nandini Sharma had a slow start but was able to come back big to defeat Vivian Cheng with a score of 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, as the Knights led the match, 3-1. Sharma extended her singles win streak to seven.
UCF only needed one more court to win the match and Jaleesa Leslie was able to get it done on court three as she took down Mirabelle Brettkelly by a score of 6-4, 7-6(5).
Two courts remained as No. 96 Evgeniya Levashova was facing Chelseas Kung on court one and was in a second set tiebreak to win but the match went unfinished at 7-5, 6-6(1-0).
No. 100 Marie Mattel was in the third set against Jessie Gong and was one game away from taking the win, but her match also went unfinished 6-2, 0-6, 5-4.
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