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NORMAL, Ill. \u2013 On the opening day of Illinois State’s Redbird Invitational at the Gregory Street Tennis Courts in Normal, Illinois, the Belmont University women’s tennis team put together a combined eight match wins between singles and doubles play. With eight Bruins in action Friday, Belmont secured three doubles victories before claiming five singles wins.
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\nAmong fellow Missouri Valley Conference teams, the Bruins dropped only one doubles match. The tandems of redshirt freshman Savannah Webster<\/a> and sophomore Jessica Popiol<\/a>, freshman Mia Jones<\/a> and graduate Cielo Tapia-Cruz<\/a>, and freshman Ketevan Jeladze<\/a> and senior Libbie Hamilton<\/a> were all victorious in convincing fashion against doubles teams from Northern Iowa, Valparaiso and Murray State, respectively.
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\nIn singles action, Popiol, Jones, Tapia-Cruz, Jeladze and Hamilton all picked up triumphs.
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\nBoth Popiol and Hamilton were straight-set winners. Popiol handled Illinois State’s Silvia Pomarolli 6-3, 6-2, while Hamilton took care of the University of Illinois Chicago’s Charlotte Deletioglu 6-4, 6-3.
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\nJones and Jeladze both overcame opening set losses with Jones overcoming Bradley’s Anna Belogliadova 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 and Jeladze withstanding Northern Iowa’s Lasya Mylavarapu 5-7, 6-1, 6-4.
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\nIn the fourth singles flight, Tapia-Cruz defeated UIC’s Dongke Liu 7-5 in the third set after the two split 6-1 first and second sets.
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\nBelmont’s complete match scores from Friday can be found below.
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\nPlay resumes at 9 a.m. Saturday with one round of doubles followed by one round of singles.
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\nRedbird Invitational \u2013 Friday Results<\/p>\n

Doubles

\nFlight #1 QF – Savannah Webster<\/a>\/Jessica Popiol<\/a> (Belmont) def. Yangjiaxin Li\/Andjela Raznatovic (UNI), 8-4

\nFlight #2 QF – Mia Jones<\/a>\/Cielo Tapia-Cruz<\/a> (Belmont) def. Lacey Tanner\/Brynn Steven (Valparaiso), 8-5

\nFlight #3 QF – Ketevan Jeladze<\/a>\/Libbie Hamilton<\/a> (Belmont) def. Bruna Melato\/Arden Dethridge (Murray State), 8-2

\nFlight #4 SF – Molly Null\/Rebecca Widan (Murray State) def. Emma Grant<\/a>\/Annika Warkentin<\/a> (Belmont), 8-2

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\nSingles

\nFlight #1 QF – Valeria Chaikovskaia (Murray State) def. Savannah Webster<\/a> (Belmont), 6-1, 6-0

\nFlight #2 QF – Jessica Popiol<\/a> (Belmont) def. Silvia Pomarolli (Illinois State), 6-3, 6-2

\nFlight #3 QF – Mia Jones<\/a> (Belmont) def. Anna Belogliadova (Bradley), 4-6, 6-1, 6-1

\nFlight #4 QF – Cielo Tapia-Cruz<\/a> (Belmont) def. Dongke Liu (UIC), 6-1, 1-6, 7-5

\nFlight #5 QF – Ketevan Jeladze<\/a> (Belmont) def. Lasya Mylavarapu (UNI), 5-7, 6-1, 6-4

\nFlight #6 QF – Libbie Hamilton<\/a> (Belmont) def. Charlotte Deletioglu (UIC), 6-4, 6-3

\nFlight #7 QF – Jolene Fernandes (Valparaiso) def. Emma Grant<\/a> (Belmont), 7-5, 6-1

\nFlight #7 QF – Ana Baron (Valparaiso) def. Annika Warkentin<\/a> (Belmont), 6-4, 6-4

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