The Georgia Gwinnett College women's tennis team closed out the regular season with an impressive 8-1 win Friday afternoon at Atlanta-based Emory University, a perennial NCAA Division III title contender.
The Grizzlies (19-0) played their first road match of the spring season.
GGC won the last two doubles matches to grab an early 2-1 advantage. The freshmen duo of
Ale Ferrer and
Iryna Lysykh won on the No. 3 court by capturing the tiebreaker, 7-3. That came after junior
Maria Genovese and freshman
Eva Siska teamed for an 8-4 victory in the No. 2 match.
That doubles point would be the only one that the visitors would surrender in the match as they won all six singles matches, with four of them going the distance. Ferrer had a 6-1, 6-2 triumph at No. 5 singles before freshman
Liza Velykorodna gave the team a 4-1 lead with a 6-2, 6-1 victory on the No. 6 court.
On the No. 1 court, Genovese rallied after dropping the opening set 6-1 to win the last two by 6-3, 6-4 scores. That provided the match's clinching fifth point.
Then, freshman
Selina Pichler followed had a three-set victory at No. 3 singles 6-7 (4), 6-2, 1-0 (4) and Lysykh split the first two sets on the No. 4 court by 6-1 scores before winning the deciding third set 6-2. Sophomore
Tereza Koplova rounded out GGC's winners with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 come-from-behind victory on the No. 2 court.
Georgia Gwinnett College is scheduled to compete in the 2021 NAIA National Championship tournament from May 18-22 in Mobile, Alabama.
