Arizona women’s tennis went 1-2 over the weekend in Lawrence, Kansas

The Arizona women’s tennis team went 1-2 over the weekend in Lawrence, Kansas. Arizona took on the University of Kansas, Texas Tech and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Friday: Arizona vs. Kansas

The Arizona women’s tennis team visited the University of Kansas on Friday, February 17th at 9:00 a.m. and fell short to the Jayhawks in a 4-2 loss. Before this, the Wildcats had a five game winning streak.

The only Wildcat wins of the match were in singles, secured by freshman Reece Carter, who defeated Kansas’ Carmen Roxana Manu 6-3, 6-2 and sophomore Parker Fry’s Jocelyn Massey, 6-1, 6-3.

Fry’s success continues as a template from his freshman year as the leading singles player with 18 total wins in 2021-22. In singles alongside graduate Salma Ziouti, she was unable to beat Jayhawks Heike Janse Van Vuuren and Malkia Ngounoue in a 6-4 loss.

Ziouti also fell short in singles after Maria Titova beat her in singles 6-2, 6-4. After the night’s result, Ngounoue secured Kansas’ lead with a 7-5, 6-1 win over sophomore Midori Castillo-Meza.

Vuuren won the match for Kansas after finishing the singles match against freshman Tanvi Narendran 6-4, 6-4.

Saturday: Arizona vs. Texas Tech

The Arizona women’s tennis team met Texas Tech University in a match in Lawrence, Kansas on Saturday, February 18, and the Lady Raiders did not score a point to collect a 4-0 victory over the Wildcats.

In the 8 o’clock challenge, the singles duo Fry and Ziouti beat TTU’s Avelina Sayfetdinova and Metka Komac 6-1. The duo also went 6-4 in the previous day’s game against the University of Kansas. Fry also won in singles 6-0, 6-2 against Arina Oreshchenkova.

In other singles matches, senior Kayla Wilkins defeated rival Cristina Tigle (7-6, 6-1) and Narendra’s Kate Dmitrichenko (7-5, 6-4).

Carter couldn’t muster a point for Arizona and had a one-game lead (1-0) before his match was called at three singles after losing 6-7 and winning the first two sets against 6-3 opponents.

Doubles was a long-term desperation. In addition to Carter and Castillo-Meza’s 5-1 loss to Olivia Peet and Tiglea, Wilkins and sophomore Belen Nevenhoven swept Dmitrichenko and Camryn Stepp 6-0, clinching the doubles for Texas Tech.

Saturday: Arizona vs. Santa Barbra

After two losses over the past weekend against TTU and KU, Arizona managed to redeem itself with a 4-1 victory over the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday afternoon.

Although Carter and Ziouti and their partners allowed the Gauchos to grab a point in doubles, they were able to get revenge in singles.

Carter beat UCSB’s Valentina Khrebtova (6-3, 6-4) and Ziouti defeated Kira Reuter (6-3, 7-5) to take home the only win for women’s tennis that weekend.

Arizona will next play in Montgomery, Alabama on February 24th and 25th in the Blue Gray Classic.

Follow along Featuring Madison Carney Twitter