No. 16 W&M Women's Tennis Falls to No. 6 Arizona State, 6-1

01/26/03

WILLIAMSBURG, VA - William and Mary’s 16th-ranked women’s tennis team suffered its first defeat of the season, falling to No. 6 Arizona State, 6-1, today at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. The loss drops the Tribe’s record to 2-1 on the year while the Sun Devils improve to 2-0.

The two teams split the first two doubles matches, with ASU winning at No. 1 and the Tribe duo of Kari Olsen (San Diego, CA) and Lingda Yang (Coconut Creek, FL) winning, 8-5, at No. 3. With the match on court two left to decide who would win the team point, W&M’s Megan Muth (Covington, LA) and Amy Wei (Marietta, GA) won three straight games after going down, 7-2, but could not complete the comeback, losing to ASU’s 37th-ranked team of Mhairi Brown/Cindy Sureephong, 8-5.

Things started off poorly for the Tribe in singles, as the team lost the first set in all six matches. W&M recovered to win the second on four of the courts, but dropped the third and sixth matches in straight sets to go down, 3-0. With the Tribe needing to win all four remaining singles to take the match, Lena Sherbakov (Mountain View, CA) gave W&M its first team point, defeating Joslynn Burkett, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, at No. 5. However, the College could not pull out wins in any of the other matches, and lost the contest, 6-1,

The Tribe returns to action at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center next Sunday, February 2, with its first two Colonial Athletic Association matches of the season. W&M will face UNC Wilmington at 10:00 AM and will take on James Madison at 3:00 PM.

#6 Arizona State 6, #16 William and Mary 1
Singles
1. #21 Adria Engel (ASU) d. #40 Candice Fuchs; 7-5, 5-7, 6-1
2. #39 Dora Krstulovic (ASU) d. #52 Megan Muth; 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
3. #109 Mhairi Brown (ASU) d. #113 Nina Kamp; 6-4, 6-4
4. Cindy Sureephong (ASU) d. Kate Boomershine; 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
5. Lena Sherbakov (W&M) d. Joslynn Burkett; 1-6, 7-5, 6-3
6. Laurel Colalillo (ASU) d. #114 Amy Wei; 6-4, 6-3

Doubles
1. Engel/Colalillo (ASU) d. #18 Boomershine/Fuchs; 8-4
2. #37 Brown/Sureephong (ASU) d. Muth/Wei; 8-5
3. Kari Olsen/Lingda Yang (W&M) d. Burkett/Megan Yeats; 8-5