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Women's Tennis Falls To Winthrop In Finals Of Big South Championships

       

Women's Tennis Falls To Winthrop In Finals Of Big South Championships

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 (Release courtesy of the Big South)

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – The top-seeded Winthrop Eagles defeated No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina, 4-2, to win the 2006 Big South Women’s Tennis Championship Saturday afternoon at the Birmingham-Southern College Tennis Complex.  The win marks their fifth-straight League title.

Coastal Carolina grabbed the doubles point jumped out to the early 1-0 lead.  Coastal’s Petra Jantti and Amy Pazahanick downed Winthrop’s Yolandra Araujo and Patricia Coimbra 8-3 at the No. 2 flight.  At No. 3 doubles, Sofie Ahlberg and Sarize Coetzee of CCU defeated Larisa Bekmetova and Alexandra Dyckman of WU, 8-0.  The Eagles’ lone doubles win came at No. 1 as Paula Takahashi and her partner Ana Paula Noves defeated the Chanticleer tandem of Virginie Dinh and Hayley Rudman, 8-1. 

In singles action, Winthrop battled back to win four matches.  Winthrop’s Noves knocked off Dinh in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3, at the No. 1 flight.  At No. 2, Coimbra defeated Jantti, 6-1, 6-2.  Araujo took the No. 3 flight 6-3, 6-7 (10-12), 6-2, over Chanticleer netter Rudman.  Takahashi downed Pazahanick 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 at the No. 4 slot.  Coastal’s lone singles win came at No. 6 as Coetzee defeated Dyckman, 6-2, 6-0.

With the win, Winthrop receives the Big South’s automatic bid the NCAA Women’s Tennis tournament slated to begin on May 12 and 13.

Box Score:
 Singles competition
1. NOVAES, Ana Paula (WU) def. DINH,Virginie (COASTAL) 6-2, 6-3
2. COIMBRA, Patricia (WU) def. JANTTI,Petra (COASTAL) 6-1, 6-2
3. ARAUJO, Yolanda (WU) def. RUDMAN,Hayley (COASTAL) 6-3, 6-7 (10-12), 6-2
4. TAKAHASHI, Paula (WU) def. PAZAHANICK,Amy (COASTAL) 3-6, 6-0, 6-2
5. BEKMETOVA, Larisa (WU) vs. AHLBERG,Sofie (COASTAL) 6-3, 6-7 (8-10), 1-2, unfinished
6. COETZEE,Sarize (COASTAL) def. DYCKMAN, Alexandra (WU) 6-2, 6-0

 Doubles competition
1. NOVAES, Ana Paula/TAKAHASHI, Paula (WU) def. DINH,Virginie/RUDMAN,Hayley (COASTAL) 8-1
2. JANTTI,Petra/PAZAHANICK,Amy (COASTAL) def. ARAUJO, Yolanda/COIMBRA, Patricia (WU) 8-3
3. AHLBERG,Sofie/COETZEE,Sarize (COASTAL) def. BEKMETOVA, Larisa/DYCKMAN, Alexandra (WU) 8-0