{"id":511004,"date":"2026-03-01T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:43:08","slug":"csun-tennis-falls-to-uc-davis-4-3-in-tightly-contested-dual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511004\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUN Tennis Falls to UC Davis, 4-3 in Tightly Contested Dual"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVIS, Calif. — The CSUN women’s tennis team (4-4, 0-2 Big West) fell to the UC Davis Aggies (8-8, 2-2 Big West), 4-3 in a nailbiting decision at the Marya Welch Tennis Center\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday morning. CSUN claimed the doubles point and Emma Moratala Sanz and Madison Shepperson<\/a> each won their singles point.
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nCSUN kicked off the dual by taking the doubles point. On No. 3 courts, the tandem of Madison Shepperson<\/a> and Satsuki Ishikawa<\/a> cruised to a 6-1 win over Aileena Hu and Kaia Wolfe, and the No. 1 pair of Angela Ho<\/a> and Nicole West<\/a> followed with a 6-3 victory against Polina Marakhtanova and Mika Ikemori to clinch the early 1-0 advantage.
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\nUC Davis would tie the\u00a0match\u00a0when the first singles match came to a close.\u00a0Hu posted a 6-3, 6-1 win over Sofia Dermenjyan<\/a>, at Court No. 5 to even the score at one apiece.
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\nCSUN quickly took the lead back at Court No. 6. Shepperson won in straight-sets, topping Isabella Bringas, 6-4, 6-3.
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\nThe Aggies would tie the match yet again on Court No. 4. Vivian Gallaway defeated Tallia Harper<\/a>, 7-5, 6-2\u00a0to even the dual at 2-2.\u00a0
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\nUC Davis took the lead at No.1 singles between Ho and Marakhtanova. Ho won the first set, but Marakhtanova rallied to win in three sets, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.\u00a0
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\nThe Aggies then clinched the dual at Court No.2. Ikemori\u00a0outlasted West in the tightest match of the day, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-5.
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\nCSUN did\u00a0pick up another point in the final match as\u00a0Moratalla Sanz bounced back from a first-set loss to defeat Maya Youssef, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5).
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\nNOTES OF THE GAME<\/p>\n


\n\tMoratalla Sanz is the first Matador to reach six singles victories on the season, improving to\u00a06-1.
\n\tShepperson is now 4-2 in singles play.
\n\tHo and West are now 4-1 on the season and have won three in a row in doubles play together.
\n\tDespite the loss,\u00a0CSUN still leads the all-time series with UC Davis 18-13. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT
\nIt will be a quick turnaround for the Matadors, as CSUN will look to get back into the win column against Pacific in Stockton tomorrow at Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center.\u00a0First serve is set for 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIS, Calif. — The CSUN women’s tennis team (4-4, 0-2 Big West) fell to the UC Davis Aggies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-511004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}