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Loyola Marymount
Women’s Tennis Drops First Match of West Coast Road Trip
3/25/2024 10:07:00 PM | Women's Tennis
LOS ANGELES, Calif.- Brown's women's tennis team opened their California road trip with a 4-1 loss to Loyola Marymount on Monday afternoon.
The Bears dropped two of the three doubles matches to LMU. The new pairing of Nora Lee and Daniella Ben-Abraham were able to work together and beat the Lions' pairing of Romane Longueville and Anastasia Bozova. LMU ultimately earned the point in doubles.
"We started our first outdoor match of the season with uncharacteristically low energy at line 1 and 2 doubles and could not find a way to steady the ship and get back into those matches. Dani and Nora played with intensity, energy and aggressiveness at line 3 doubles, which was great to see in a new doubles team," said Head Coach Lucie Schmidhauser.
Phoebe Peus powered through her singles set, but was unable to complete that match due to it already being clinched. "In singles, the match was a fight until the end and could have gone either way. It was unfortunate that the match was clinched before Phoebe could finish her line one singles match as she played flawlessly in the third set, completely overwhelming her opponent with her heavy groundstrokes and her ability to finish points at the net," Head Coach Lucie Schmidhauser said.
The Bears earned their only point after Nora Lee secured a win over LMU's Kim-Michaela Zahraj in fourth singles. "Nora had a great day at line 4 playing smart and fearless tennis. It is great to have Nora back in the singles line-up for her senior spring and she is making the best of it!"
Anne Yang competed in the sixth singles tiebreaker match. She fell short in the first set, but rebounded during the second set of her match. "Annie bounced back well in the second set of her match after losing a tough first set 9-11 in the tiebreaker. She showed resilience and fight by winning the 2nd set with an adjusted game plan and groundstroke speed," said Head Coach Lucie Schmidhauser.
"As a team, we still need to find a way to consistently play "to win" instead of hoping that our opponent will give us the victory. We are definitely getting closer to that goal, now it is just a matter of having enough courage across the board to leave everything on the court, no matter the result."
UP NEXT
The Bears will continue their west coast road trip when they take on Long Beach State tomorrow at 2 p.m. PST.
DOUBLES RESULTS
Rogozinska-Dzik / Tcherkes-Zade (LMU) def. Hofflander / Peus (Brown) 6-1
Arrese / Molina (LMU) def. Ahlstrom / Benedetto (Brown) 6-1
Ben-Abraham / Lee (Brown) def. Bozova / Longueville (LMU) 6-1
SINGLES RESULTS
Rogozinska-Dzik (LMU) vs. Peus (Brown) 4-6, 6-2, 1-5, unfinished
Tcherkes-Zade (LMU) def. Benedetto (Brown) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Molina (LMU) def. Soliman (Brown) 6-4, 6-1
Lee (Brown) def. Zahraj (LMU) 6-3, 6-3
Arrese (LMU) def. Ahlstrom (Brown) 7-6, 6-4
Longueville (LMU) vs. Yang (Brown) 7-6, 2-6, unfinished
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