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Tsertsvadze and Radan Advance to Finals

Tsertsvadze and Radan Advance to Finals

October 10, 2009 | Women's Tennis

Oct. 9 2009

EVANSTON, Ill.—The University of Oklahoma women's tennis team finished 6-3 on day one of the Wildcat Invite at Northwestern University on Friday, with a Sooner duo advancing to the Flight B doubles final. 

Sophomore Kristina Radan and freshman Teona Tsertsvadze won three doubles matches on Friday to advance to the Flight B doubles final against Kate Turvy and Stacey Lee of Northwestern. 

Radan and Tsertsvadze defeated Hannah Berner and Angela Chupa of Wisconsin in the first round, 8-4, before topping Minnesota's Magdalena Wiecha and Peta Forsyth in a close quarterfinals match, 8-6.  Radan and Tsertsvadze dominated Josefin Andersson and Adriana Periera of South Carolina, 8-1, in their third match of the day to advance to the doubles final. 

“Today we played some of the best doubles that I have seen since I have coached here,” OU head coach David Mullins said.  “I was really impressed with the girls' attitudes and decision making.”

Juniors Tara Eckel and Maria Kalashnikova went 2-1 on the day, dropping their only match in the quarterfinals.  The Sooner duo defeated Prang Pantusart and Angelina Jogasuria of Akron in the first round, 8-6, before falling to Cosmina Ciobanu and Colleen Rielley of Notre Dame, 8-3.  Eckel and Kalashnikova picked up their second win in the consolation bracket, defeating Anya Morgini and Madeleine Bystrom of South Carolina, 8-1. 

OU freshman Katelyn Connelly and sophomore Marie-Pier Huet defeated Elena Chernyakova and Linda Abu Mushrefova of Northwestern, 8-6.  Huet and Connelly lost to Katarina Milinkovic and Selma Salkovic of Depaul in the quarterfinals, 8-2, and then fell to Wisconsin's Katya Mirnova and Aleksandra Markovic in the consolation bracket, 8-6.   


Wildcat Invite: Day One Results
First Round
Huet/Connelly (OU) def. Chernyakova/Mushrefova (NU), 8-6
Eckel/Kalashnikova (OU) def. Pantusart/Jogasuria (Akron), 8-3
Tsertsvadze/Radan (OU) def. Berner/Chupa (Wisc), 8-4

Quarterfinals
Milinkovic/Salkovic (DEP) def. Huet/Connelly (OU), 8-2
Ciobanu/Rielley (ND) def. Eckel Kalashnikova (OU), 8-3
Tsertsvadze/Radan (OU) def. Wiecha/Forsyth (Minn), 8-6

Semifinals
Tsertsvadze/Radan (OU) def. Andersson/Pereira (SC), 8-1

Consolation Bracket
Mirnova/Markovic (Wisc) def. Huet/Connelly (OU), 8-6
Eckel/Kalashnikova (OU) def. Morgini/Bystrom (SC), 8-1

 

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