KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 The Kentucky women\u2019s tennis squad (8-2, 0-1 SEC) fell during their SEC opener on the road in Knoxville against the Volunteers, 4-0. With the rest of conference play to come, the Wildcats use this to highlight strong fights by Donna Le Roux, Julia Zhu, and Asuncion Jadue on their respective singles courts.<\/p>\n
In doubles play the Cats were defeated, with the Vols gaining their first team point. After a fight back from first singles pair of senior Zoe Hammond and junior Zhu, it was a match left unfinished 3-5 against No. 21 Catherine Aulia and Leyla Britez Risso of Tennessee. On court two, freshman Reese Sager and sophomore Jadue were defeated by Tennessee\u2019s Vanesa Suarez and Francesca Mattioli 6-3. To secure the point, Maeve Thornton and Saray Yli-Piipari defeated the Kentucky pairing of Marina Fuduric and Elena Molla by a score of 6-2.<\/p>\n
Trailing 1-0 heading into singles, the Wildcats got off to a slower start. Sager dropped her match in straight sets to No. 61 C. Aulia 6-3, 6-0. On court four, Jadue dropped the first set 6-0, but bounced back and brought some energy for the Cats in her second set. Court one singles with Zhu was a battle, with the junior testing Tennessee\u2019s Suarez in a tough tiebreaker first set, 7-6(5). The freshman Donna Le Roux was great on court six, being the only Wildcat to win the first set and taking it 7-5.<\/p>\n
Down 2-0, the Volunteers extended the lead when Molla was defeated by Yli-Piipari 6-2, 6-2. On court two, No. 94 Hammond dropped the first set 6-0, battling, but ultimately dropping the second 6-3 to No. 25 Risso as the volunteers clinched the match.<\/p>\n
Kentucky (8-2, 0-1 SEC) concludes their first weekend of conference play, and looks ahead to the many tests that are to come with such a strong conference this season.<\/p>\n
For the latest on UK Women\u2019s Tennis, follow @UKWomensTennis on Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Doubles Results:<\/p>\n
Hammond\/Zhu (UK) vs C. Aulia\/Britez Risso (UT) 3-5 (unfinished)
\nSuarez\/Mattioli (UT) def. Jadue\/Sager (UK) 6-3
\nThornton\/Yli-Piipari (UT) def. Molla\/Fuduric (UK) 6-2<\/p>\n
Order of finish: 3,2<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Singles Results:<\/p>\n
Zhu (UK) vs. Suarez (UT) 6-7(5), unfinished
\nRisso (UT) def. Hammond (UK) 6-0, 6-3
\nC. Aulia (UT) def. Sager (UK) 6-3, 6-0
\nJadue (UK) vs. Mattioli (UT), 0-6, 5-4, unfinished
\nTli-Piipari (UT) def. Molla (UK), 6-2, 6-2
\nLe Roux (UK) vs. A. Aulia (UT), 7-5, 2-2, unfinished<\/p>\n
Order of finish: 3, 5, 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 The Kentucky women\u2019s tennis squad (8-2, 0-1 SEC) fell during their SEC opener on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,43,8731,82,593,43755],"class_list":["post-490758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-non-homepage-featured","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-women-s-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490758","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=490758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}