By: Christian Binger, Interim Director of Athletics Media Relations
Box Score
Indianapolis, Ind. - The Southwest Baptist Women's Tennis team utilized a great team performance to upset the #16 University of Indianapolis Greyhounds Wednesday night.
SBU started off strong by claiming victories in doubles #2 and #3 but dropped Klara Vickov and Jill Van den Dungen dropped doubles #1 to the top ranked doubles team in the nation. After doubles, SBU held a 2-1 advantage.
In singles #1 and #2, Van den Dungen and Vickov battled tough but came up short of winning their matches. Lucia Diaz helped the Bearcats bounce back with a 6-1, 6-2 win to tie the match at 3-3. The two teams split singles #5 and #6 with Sarah Brown winning singles #5 for SBU 6-2, 7-5. The match came down to singles #4. Constanca Crespo for SBU did not give in and won her third set 6-2 to clinch the match for SBU, 5-4.
The SBU Women's Tennis team will return to the court this weekend when they travel to Emporia State and Washburn.
Match by Match results:
#11 University of Indianapolis (7), #16 Southwest Baptist (2)
Doubles:
1. Renato Lima/Andrea Morlet (UINDY18) def. Semrau, Torben/Caballero, Raul (SBU) 8-5
2. Agoston, Gyorgy/Agoston, Ferenc (SBU) def. Magnus Mueller/Christoph Drechsler (UINDY18) 9-7
3. Nils Hoffacker/Dario Huber (UINDY18) def. Abohabaga, Sherif/Corser, Carlos (SBU) 8-5
Singles:
1. Abohabaga, Sherif (SBU) def. #41 Nils Hoffacker (UINDY18) 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
2. Renato Lima (UINDY18) def. Caballero, Raul (SBU) 6-1, 3-6, 7-5
3. Dario Huber (UINDY18) def. Agoston, Ferenc (SBU) 6-4, 6-4
4. Magnus Mueller (UINDY18) def. Szeri, David (SBU) 6-0, 6-2
5. Christoph Drechsler (UINDY18) def. Semrau, Torben (SBU) 6-2, 6-4
6. Matej Kostadinov (UINDY18) def. Agoston, Gyorgy (SBU) 7-6, 6-7, 10-3
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (3,1,2,4,5,6)