MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — WKU Tennis completed two full days of competition at the MTSU Tournament this weekend. The Lady Toppers played a total of 19 singles matches and seven doubles matches overall against host Middle Tennessee and visiting East Tennessee State.
"We had a very good first day at the tournament. It was good to see the team step up to the next level against some really good teams," head coach Greg Davis said. "I think overall we came away with a tremendous amount of positives from the weekend."
WKU faced very quality opponents over the weekend; in the spring of 2020, the Blue Raiders posted a 9-5 dual match record, while the Bucs notched a 9-4 team mark.
In singles play, Laura Bernardos, Cora-Lynn von Dungern, Lisa Friess and Lauren Joch each earned a victory.
Bernardos had a two-set sweep of ETSU's Mayya Gorbunova, while Joch took care of MTSU's Noelle Mauro in two sets. In third-set tiebreakers, von Dungern defeated ETSU's Emilia Alfaro, while Friess edged out MTSU's Lilly-Sophie Schmidt.
In doubles action, the Lady Toppers put together a 3-4 overall record. The duos of von Dungern-Friess, Bernardos-Friess and Bryant-Otake-Joch earned victories during the competition.
Singles (sorted alphabetically by WKU player)
Bernardos (WKU) def. Gorbunova (ETSU): 6-1, 6-2
Z. Barnard (MTSU) def. Bernardos (WKU): 6-1, 2-6, 10-5
Pacual (ETSU) def. Bernardos (WKU): 2-6, 6-2, 13-11
Bahena (ETSU) def. Bryant-Otake (WKU): 3-6, 6-2, 10-3
Burrows (MTSU) def. Bryant-Otake (WKU): 6-3, 5-7, 10-7
Morales (ETSU) def. Bryant-Otake (WKU): 6-1, 6-1
Gupta (MTSU) def. Cramer (WKU): 6-3, 7-5
Carvajal (ETSU) def. Cramer (WKU): 6-3, 6-3
L. Barnard (MTSU) def. Cramer (WKU): 6-1, 6-4
Carvajal (ETSU) def. von Dungern (WKU): 7-6, 6-3
L. Barnard (MTSU) def. von Dungern (WKU): 6-0, 4-6, 10-8
von Dungern (WKU) def. Alfaro (ETSU): 7-6, 0-6, 10-8
Friess (WKU) def. Schmidt (MTSU): 2-6, 6-1, 11-9
Gorbunova (ETSU) def. Friess (WKU): 6-0, 6-3
Z. Barnard (MTSU) def. Friess (WKU): 4-6, 6-1, 11-9
Joch (WKU) def. Mauro (MTSU): 6-2, 6-0
Bahena (ETSU) def. Joch (WKU): 6-3, 6-1
Bahena (ETSU) def. Subias (WKU): 6-0, 6-0
Burrows (MTSU) def. Subias (WKU): 6-1, 6-0
Doubles
von Dungern/Friess (WKU) def. Carvajal/Pascual (ETSU): 6-2
Gorbunova/Morales (ETSU) def. von Dungern/Friess (WKU): 6-0
Alfaro/Elizararas (ETSU) def. Bryant-Otake/Joch (WKU): 6-4
Bryant-Otake/Joch (WKU) def. Alexis/Schmidt (MTSU): 6-4
Bernardos/Friess (WKU) def. L. Barnard/Burrows (MTSU): 6-2
L. Barnard/Burrows (MTSU) def. Cramer/Subias (WKU): 6-2
Z. Barnard/Gupta (MTSU) def. Bernardos/Cramer (WKU): 6-1
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