University of Minnesota Athletics
Gophers Finish Regional with 29 Wins
10/16/2016 12:00:00 AM | Tennis
Tournament Draws
The University of Minnesota finished the USTA/ITA Central Region Championships at Baseline Tennis Saturday with 22 singles match wins and seven doubles match wins.
Last season the Gophers had 26 total wins (17 singles, 9 doubles) at the Central Region Championships.
"First of all I'd like to thank John Pratt and Mason Hemmer, and their entire Baseline Tennis Staff for running an amazing regional," Head Coach Chuck Merzbacher said. "All I heard was compliments from the other coaches. The region is probably as strong as it is ever been. I feel like our young team did very well, showed our depth and got a glimpse of what we are going to be in the spring. Our schedule is very tough in the spring and tournaments like this are preparing us for that schedule."
The Gophers had Carolina Ryba advance to the singles main draw round of 16 while Ryba teamed up with Cammy Frei to make it to the doubles main draw round of 16.
The Maroon and Gold also had Caitlyn Merzbacher and Mehvish Safdar play their way into the doubles consolation quarterfinals.
Sunday Doubles
Merzbacher and Safdar started off the day with a match in the doubles consolation draw quarterfinals versus Nebraska, they fell 8-0.
Ryba and Frei won their extra doubles match 8-1 over Lisa Andersson and Elizabeth Gould of Nebraska.
Another familiar duo, Tina Kreinis and Annemarie Emme played Tulsa's Mahitha Dadireddy and Vera Ploner and fell 8-4.
Kalyssa Hall and Camila Vargas Gomez teamed up for their second match of the weekend but were defeated 8-2 by a pair from Nebraska.
Sunday Singles
Emme won her final match of the tournament 6-2, 6-3 over Melania Jaglarz of Drake while Vargas Gomez defeated Oklahoma's Malene Stripp 6-4, 6-1.
Bihel fell in her final match to Simran Sethi of Oklahoma (6-3, 6-4, 1-0(9)) and Frei won 4-6, 6-4, 1-0(7) over Arkansas'Mia Jurasic.
Safdar finished off the tournament with a loss (6-2, 5-7, 1-0(2)) along with Hall who fell 6-2, 6-3.
The finals for both singles and doubles match will be played tomorrow beginning at 9 a.m.
Next up the Gophers will travel to Chapel Hill, N.C. for the Kitty Harrison Invite Nov. 4-6.
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