W&M Women's Tennis Falls at No. 1 Stanford, 6-1

Tribe's Megan Moulton-Levy Upsets No. 15 Amber Liu

03/09/06 8:45PM

STANFORD, CA - William and Mary’s women’s tennis team, ranked 20th in the nation, fell to top-ranked Stanford, 6-1, today at the Taube Family Tennis Center.

The loss drops the Tribe’s record to 9-4, while the Cardinal improves to 14-0.

Stanford opened the match by sweeping the three doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead. Lejla Hodzic and Jessica Nguyen opened the day with an 8-1 win at No. 3 doubles over junior Alexandra de Guzman (Holmdel, NJ) and freshman Barbara Zidek (Orland Park, IL). Celia Durkin and Amber Liu clinched the point with an 8-4 win over seniors Megan Muth (Covington, LA) and Lingda Yang (Coconut Creek, FL). In the top doubles match, Stanford’s Alice Barnes and Anne Yelsey, the nation’s top-ranked team, defeated junior Megan Moulton-Levy (Monroe, MI) and rookie Katarina Zoricic (Etobicoke, Ontario), 8-6.

The Cardinal took a 2-0 lead with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles by 49th-ranked Whitney Deason over Yang and pulled within one point of clinching the win when Durkin, ranked 26th in the nation, defeated Zidek, 7-5, 6-0 at No. 6. Stanford secured the win with a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 2 by fifth-ranked Barnes over Muth. On court four, freshman Klaudyna Kasztelaniec (Krakow, Poland) came back from dropping her first set to win the second against No. 9 Anne Yelsey, before falling in a super tiebreaker and dropping the match, 6-4, 0-6, 1-0 (10-4). W&M’s Zoricic, ranked 87th in the nation, also split sets in her match at court two before falling to No. 7 Logar, 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-1). In the top match, Moulton-Levy, ranked 30th in the nation, upset two-time NCAA singles champion Liu, ranked 15th in the nation, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 1-0 (10-6).

The Tribe will return to action tomorrow at eighth-ranked California at 4:30 PM (Eastern time).


#1 Stanford 6, #20 William and Mary 1
Singles
1. #30 Megan Moulton-Levy (W&M) d. #15 Amber Liu; 7-6 (3), 4-6, 1-0 (10-6)
2. #5 Alice Barnes (SU) d. Megan Muth; 6-3, 6-2
3. #7 Theresa Logar (SU) d. #87 Katarina Zoricic; 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-1)
4. #9 Anne Yelsey (SU) d. Klaudyna Kasztelaniec; 6-4, 0-6, 1-0 (10-4)
5. #49 Whitney Deason (SU) d. Lingda Yang; 6-0, 6-0
6. #26 Celia Durkin (SU) d. Barbara Zidek; 7-5, 6-0
Order of finish: 5, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1

Doubles
1. #1 Barnes/Yelsey (SU) d. Moulton-Levy/Zoricic; 8-6
2. Durkin/Liu (SU) d. Muth/Yang; 8-4
3. Lejla Hodzic/Jessica Nguyen (SU) d. Alexandra de Guzman/Zidek; 8-1
Order of finish: 3, 2, 1