This past weekend, Villanova Women\u2019s Tennis grabbed two victories on the road, winning,\u00a0 4-3, over Big East rival Seton Hall University (2-4, 0-1 Big East) on Saturday, Feb. 7, and 5-2 against Lehigh University (2-3) on Sunday, Feb. 8.<\/p>\n
To open the match on Saturday, Seton Hall took the doubles match, winning two of the three courts. Villanova (3-4, 1-0 Big East) won on the first court, where seniors Emi Callahan and Maggie Gehrig earned a 6-2 win, though the other two pairings fell to the Pirates.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really should\u2019ve been 6-1. We should\u2019ve been able to win the doubles,\u201d head coach Steve Reiniger said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be focused on that next week at practice. One doubles team was playing great, but with the other two doubles teams, we need to work out some kinks.\u201d<\/p>\n
In singles play, Villanova dominated, winning four matches to secure the win. Gehrig, at court No. 2, earned a straight-sets win: 6-1, 6-4. On court No. 4, junior Jenna Stevens took home a 6-4, 6-2 win, then junior Lauren Monti kept it going with a 6-2, 6-2 victory. Sophomore Alina Kornyeva won at court No. 6, with a 6-1, 6-0 triumph.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats\u2019 only loss was on the third court, where junior Miriam Gondorova\u2019s match was pulled. Although Gondorova was up 6-4, she was contending with back issues, and the team needed her healthy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiriam was up 6-4\u2026the match had been clinched, so we pulled it because her back had been giving her problems. We wanted her healthy today,\u201d Reiniger said. The team didn\u2019t need her, but it would\u2019ve been nice against a Big East opponent to beat them 5-2 instead of 4-3. And then Miriam played great at number three today. So she played some great singles both days.\u201d <\/p>\n
After taking home the win against Seton Hall, the team traveled to Lehigh for a Sunday morning matchup. Again, the team lost the doubles point, but secured the match with a strong showing in the singles portion. Callahan and Gehrig secured a 6-2 win on the first court, but the pairs on the second and third courts fell to the Mountain Hawks.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s tennis answered to the early disadvantage by earning wins on courts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Gehrig played a 7-5, 6-4 battle, Gondorova earned a 6-2, 6-1 win, Monti, on court No. 4 won 6-2, 6-0, Stevens clinched the win with a 6-1, 6-2 victory, and on the sixth court, Kornyeva earned a 6-4, 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cBucknell and Navy have always been tough opponents. I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ve ever beaten Navy, but we\u2019ve had our chances,\u201d\u00a0 Reiniger said about the team\u2019s upcoming opponents. \u201cAnd with Bucknell, we beat them last year, but the year before we lost. So we have to come out and play our best. And that\u2019s really what I want to see. I don\u2019t really focus on the score\u2026I want to see us play good tennis, particularly on the doubles court.\u201d<\/p>\n
This weekend, Villanova will travel to Lewisburg, PA, playing Bucknell University on Saturday Feb. 14. On Sunday, Feb. 15, the team will head to Annapolis, MD to face the United States Naval Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This past weekend, Villanova Women\u2019s Tennis grabbed two victories on the road, winning,\u00a0 4-3, over Big East rival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-468206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}