TCU
No. 5 Baylor
TCU Drops Regular Season Finale to Baylor Friday
4/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 17, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas - The No. 28 TCU women's tennis team dropped it's regular season finale Friday at the hands of No. 5 Baylor, 4-1, at the indoor facility of the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. The Horned Frogs fall to 13-10 for the regular season.
In the last home match of their careers, seniors Macall Harkins and Anna Sydorska claimed the opening doubles match by upsetting Baylor's Csilla Borsanyi and Lenka Broosova by the score of 8-4 from the top position. Entering the match as the 31st-ranked duo in the country, the senior tandem jumped to an early 3-1 advantage, but the Bears would match TCU at 4-4 before Harkins and Sydorska stole the final four games.
With the win, Sydorska picked up her 100th career doubles win, nabbing sole possession of the second-most career doubles wins in TCU history. The Lviv, Ukraine product surpassed former All-American Rene Simpson on the list and is now five victories shy of matching Lori Nelson at the top of the rankings. Also with the win, Sydorska moves into a three-way tie for the ninth-most career combined wins with Paty Aburto and Saber Pierce with 173 total victories.
Baylor evened the doubles ledger with a win from the No. 2 position, as the 64th-ranked pairing of Taylor Ormond and Jelena Stanivuk teamed up to dismantle the TCU squad of Katariina Tuohimaa and Idunn Hertzberg, 8-4.
With the doubles point hanging in the balance, all focus shifted to the No. 3 court for the matchup between No. 80 Nina Munch-Soegaard and Maria Babanova from TCU and the Bear's team of Nina Secerbegovic and Kasia Siwosz. The Frogs' would jump out to an early 3-0 lead and never relinquish their advantage. With the 8-6 win, TCU claimed the doubles tally and took an early 1-0 lead into singles action.
Baylor picked up all four points in singles play, claiming wins from the Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 positions. No. 31 Broosova got it going with a 6-2, 6-3 win over No. 76 Harkins, followed quickly by Secerbegovic's 6-2, 6-2 victory over Sydorska.
Munch-Soegaard dropped her first match since Feb. 22, falling to No. 46 Ormond from the top position by the score of 6-2, 6-4. No. 44 Stanivuk's clinched the match for the Bears with a 6-3, 6-2 decision over TCU sophomore Idunn Hertzberg.
TCU will now prepare for the Mountain West Conference Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., April 22-25.
#5 Baylor 4, #28 TCU 1
SINGLES
1. #46 Taylor Ormond (BU) def. #14 Nina Munch-Soegaard (TCU) 6-2, 6-4
2. #31 Lenka Broosova (BU) def. #78 Macall Harkins (TCU) 6-2, 6-3
3. Katariina Tuohimaa (TCU) vs. #64 Csilla Borsanyi (BU) 7-5, 4-2, unfinished
4. #44 Jelena Stanivuk (BU) def. Idunn Hertzberg (TCU) 6-4, 6-3
5. Nina Secerbegovic (BU) def. Anna Sydorska (TCU) 6-2, 6-2
6. Kasia Siwosz (BU) vs. Gaby Mastromarino (TCU) no result
Order of Finish: 2, 5, 1, 4*
DOUBLES
1. #31 Harkins/Sydorska (TCU) def. #8 Borsanyi/Broosova (BU) 8-4
2. #64 Ormond/Stanivuk (BU) def. Tuohimaa/Hertzberg (TCU) 8-4
3. #80 Munch-Soegaard/Babanova (TCU) def. Secerbegovic/Siwosz (BU) 8-6
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3*
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