University at Buffalo
St. John''s
Bulls Storm Past St. John's, 5-2
1/23/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY – The University at Buffalo women's tennis team opened dual competition on Saturday with a convincing 5-2 victory over Big East foe St. John's at the Miller Tennis Center in Williamsville.
The Bulls swept the opening doubles point as the number one duo ofDenise Harijanto and Aleksandra Petrova rolled to an 8-1 win over Anastasia Zavorgodini and Ece Firat. The point was clinched at number three as Diana Toia and Diana Popescu scored an 8-3 win over Jenny Yonkus and Alyssa Liantonio.
UB took the match by scoring four straight singles wins including a double-bagel win by Harijanto at first singles over Ira Aleksova.Tamara Markovic (Uzice, Serbia/Uzicka Gimnazjia) finished next with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Zavorgodini at fifth singles. Popescu clinched the match with her straight set win over Firat, 7-6 (6), 6-2, at second singles. Toia scored a three-set victory at sixth singles for UB's fifth point before the Bulls dropped a pair of three-set matches to the Red Storm (0-1) at third and fourth singles.
"I'm happy with what they did today," said UB head coach Kathy Twist. "They played aggressive tennis and our next level is to keep going forward."
The Bulls (1-0) travel next weekend to Ithaca for the Cornell Tournament starting on Friday.
Buffalo 5, St. John's 2
Doubles
1 Denise Harijanto/Aleksandra Petrova (UB) d. Anastasia
Zavorgodini/Ece Firat (SJ), 8-1
2 Anna Subenkova/Kira Golenko (UB) d. Ira Akeksova/Nakita Austin
(SJ), 8-6
3 Diana Toia/Diana Popescu (UB) d. Jenny Yonkus/Alyssa Liantonio
(SJ), 8-3
E Joanna Zivirbulis/Ksenia Mikhaylova (SJ) d. Sofya Ivanyuk/Jenelle Jones-Mitchell (UB), 8-4
Order of finish: 1, 3, 2
Singles
1 Denise Harijanto (UB) d. Ira Aleksova (SJ), 6-0, 6-0
2 Diana Popescu (UB) d. Ece Firat (SJ), 7-6 (6), 6-2
3 Joanna Zivirbulis (SJ) d. Aleksandra Petrova (UB), 2-6, 6-3,
6-4
4 Jenny Yonkus (SJ) d. Anna Subenkova (UB), 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
5 Tamara Markovic (UB) d. Anastasia Zavorgodini (SJ), 6-3, 6-1
6 Diana Toia (UB) d. Ksenia Mikhaylova (SJ), 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
E Nakita Austin (SJ) d. Sofya Ivanyuk (UB), 8-4
E Kira Golenko (UB) d. Alyssa Liantonio (SJ), 8-3
Order of finish: 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 4
