DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 After a tough loss on Friday night to No. 7 Duke, the Kentucky women\u2019s tennis team (3-1) bounced back and took a 4-1 victory over JMU on Saturday morning in Durham. Strong singles play highlighted the match, with victories on all six courts to win the match outright.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats had a slow start on doubles, where JMU took the lead 1-0. On court one, Marina Fuduric and Julia Zhu teamed up, but dropped a set 6-2. Over on court three, the senior duo of Zoe Hammond and Ellie Myers fought until the end, but came up short 6-4. Asuncion Jadue and Reese Sager were in a close, tied set when the doubles point went unfinished due to the JMU clinch.<\/p>\n
After a slow start, Kentucky responded immediately with a huge performance in the singles portion. Every singles player won their respective matches, with Myers getting things started over Kantor 6-1, 6-3 to tie the match at 1-1. Zhu responded in similar fashion, taking down JMU\u2019s Savejic 6-1, 6-3, giving the Wildcats their first lead of the day.<\/p>\n
Over on court five, freshman Sager took a match from JMU\u2019s Avidan 6-4, 6-4 to extend the Kentucky lead to 3-1. It was senior Hammond who picked up the clinching match on court one against Munteanu in a decisive 6-4, 6-3 match.<\/p>\n
With close matches on courts three and four, the coaches agreed to play out each match to a 10 point tie-breaking set. Both matches were knotted at one set a piece for Jadue and freshman Elena Molla, and both Wildcats turned things around to end up sweeping the singles matches and ending the day with a 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n
Kentucky (3-1) concludes their weekend in Durham going 1-1, which was the first of many road trips this season. With a strong bounce back win, the Wildcats will return to play next weekend on Feb. 8 at Purdue.<\/p>\n
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Doubles Results:
1. Hoffman\/Williams (JMU) def. Fuduric\/Zhu (UK), 6-2
2. Saveljic\/Matko (JMU) vs. Jadue\/Sager (UK) 5-5, unfinished
3. Munteanu\/Avidan (JMU) def. Hammond\/Myers (UK), 6-4
Order of finish: 1,3<\/p>\n
Singles Results:
1. Hammond (UK) def. Munteanu (JMU), 6-4, 6-3
2. Zhu (UK) def. Saveljic (JMU), 6-1, 6-3
3. Jadue (UK) vs. Hoffman (JMU), 7-5, 3-6, 10-6
4. Williams (JMU) vs. Molla (UK), 2-6, 6-3, 10-7
5. Sager (UK) def. Avidan (JMU), 6-4, 6-4
6. Myers (UK) def. Kantor (JMU), 6-1, 6-3
Order of finish: 6, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 After a tough loss on Friday night to No. 7 Duke, the Kentucky women\u2019s tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,85,46,139483,105,139484],"class_list":{"0":"post-267635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-non-homepage-featured","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-women-s-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}