Indiana\u00a0women\u2019s tennis\u00a0split\u00a0its\u00a0matches\u00a0Saturday\u00a0at the IU Tennis Center, dropping a\u00a0hard-fought\u00a0game to\u00a0Purdue before\u00a0sweeping\u00a0the\u00a0University of Southern Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Against\u00a0Purdue,\u00a0Indiana\u2019s duo of\u00a0junior Elisabeth\u00a0Dunac\u00a0and\u00a0freshman\u00a0Ameia Sorey\u00a0got\u00a0the\u00a0Hoosiers\u00a0out\u00a0on\u00a0the right foot with a 6-4 win in the doubles two\u00a0match.\u00a0With the game going back and forth, one set\u00a0put\u00a0the\u00a0momentum\u00a0in Indiana\u2019s favor.\u00a0The\u00a0Hoosiers were\u00a0able to generate a return\u00a0lob\u00a0right after the\u00a0serve\u00a0and\u00a0Sorey\u00a0slammed it,\u00a0sending the\u00a0packed\u00a0IU Tennis Center\u00a0into a roar\u00a0and giving Indiana\u00a0a 5-3 lead in the set.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Junior Chase Boyer and senior Nicole\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0battled hard but\u00a0ultimately dropped\u00a0the doubles three\u00a0match\u00a07-5, setting up a deciding point in doubles one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Freshmen\u00a0Hi\u2019ilani\u00a0Williams and Alessandra\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0jumped out to an early lead but slowly let\u00a0Purdue\u00a0sophomores Ece Gencer\u00a0and\u00a0Ida Clement\u00a0work their way back into the\u00a0match, sending it into a\u00a0tiebreaker.\u00a0The\u00a0pairs\u00a0then\u00a0traded points\u00a0before\u00a0the Hoosiers\u00a0won a string of\u00a0four\u00a0points after being down 1-2.\u00a0Williams and\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0\u00a0were up 6-5 with the chance to serve\u00a0with\u00a0match\u00a0point\u00a0on\u00a0the line.\u00a0However, the\u00a0Boilermakers\u00a0took\u00a0the next three points to prevail\u00a07-6 (8-6).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heading into singles\u00a0down\u00a01-0, the Hoosiers\u00a0had\u00a0work to do. Williams continued to dominate, winning the singles five\u00a0match in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, to get the\u00a0team\u00a0a\u00a0point on the board.\u00a0Nicole\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0won the singles\u00a0four\u00a0match\u00a07-6 (7-5), 0-6, 6-3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boyer dropped singles six 6-3, 6-0,\u00a0Alessandra\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0dropped singles two 6-2, 1-6,\u00a06-2, and Sorey dropped singles one 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.\u00a0The\u00a0Hoosiers\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0secure any\u00a0more points in the singles series\u00a0and\u00a0dropped\u00a0the game 4-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Against\u00a0Southern Indiana,\u00a0Boyer\u00a0and\u00a0Nicole\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0picked up\u00a0a win\u00a0in doubles three\u00a06-1. Williams and\u00a0Alessandra\u00a0Teodosescu\u00a0won the\u00a0doubles\u00a0one\u00a0match 6-2\u00a0to clinch the opening point and gain\u00a0momentum\u00a0heading into singles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Junior Magdalena\u00a0Swierczynska\u00a0won singles six\u00a0in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0.\u00a0Dunac\u00a0also\u00a0won singles three in straight sets,\u00a06-0, 6-2.\u00a0Junior Li Hsin Lin clinched the winning point in singles five\u00a0in straight sets,\u00a06-3, 6-0,\u00a0to\u00a0secure\u00a0the 4-0 sweep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the\u00a0victory over\u00a0Southern Indiana, the Hoosiers\u00a0continued to\u00a0build\u00a0on\u00a0their\u00a0win total from last season\u00a0and now\u00a0sit\u00a0at\u00a0a\u00a010-3\u00a0record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Indiana\u00a0stays at home\u00a0and resumes Big Ten play\u00a0against\u00a0Wisconsin\u00a0on\u00a0March\u00a014 and\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0on\u00a0March\u00a015.\u00a0Both games are set for a\u00a0noon\u00a0start.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana\u00a0women\u2019s tennis\u00a0split\u00a0its\u00a0matches\u00a0Saturday\u00a0at the IU Tennis Center, dropping a\u00a0hard-fought\u00a0game to\u00a0Purdue before\u00a0sweeping\u00a0the\u00a0University of Southern Indiana.\u00a0 Against\u00a0Purdue,\u00a0Indiana\u2019s duo of\u00a0junior Elisabeth\u00a0Dunac\u00a0and\u00a0freshman\u00a0Ameia Sorey\u00a0got\u00a0the\u00a0Hoosiers\u00a0out\u00a0on\u00a0the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-527339","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\/527339","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=527339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}