W&M's Moulton-Levy Advances to Second Round of NCAAs

Tribe Junior Upsets Nation's Ninth-Ranked Player in Three Sets

05/24/06 11:20PM

STANFORD, CA - William and Mary junior Megan Moulton-Levy (Monroe, MI), ranked 19th in the nation, upset ninth-ranked Diana Srebrovic (Florida), 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in the first round of the NCAA Singles Tournament this evening at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center. With the win, Moulton-Levy will advance to tomorrow’s second round, where she will face No. 55 Federica van Adrichem (Clemson) at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time).

Moulton-Levy improves her record to 32-8 with the win, while Srebrovic’s season ends at 35-9.

Trailing 3-1 after losing her serve in the fourth game, Moulton-Levy battled back to break Srebrovic in a marathon fifth game that had eight deuce points. The Tribe junior cruised from there, breaking her opponent twice and dropping just six points as she won the next four games to take the first set, 6-3.

Moulton-Levy appeared to have the match in hand, leading 4-1 and 5-2 in the second set after breaking Srebrovic in the fourth game, but the Florida player recovered to take five straight games and win the set, 7-5. The two players began the final set by each winning their first service games, but Moulton-Levy was broken in the third to trail 2-1. She broke back to even the set at two and then went on to win the next four games as well to take the decisive third set, 6-2.

The win gives W&M a player in the second round of the NCAA Singles Tournament for the third time in the last four seasons, with current Tribe senior Megan Muth (Covington, LA) the last to accomplish the feat in 2004. Tomorrow Moulton-Levy will attempt to become the first W&M player to win two singles matches in the NCAA Tournament since Julie Shiflet and Karen van der Merwe each did that in 1992.


2006 NCAA Singles Tournament
Stanford, CA – Taube Tennis Center
First Round (64)
#19 Megan Moulton-Levy (W&M) d. #9 Diana Srebrovic (Florida); 6-3, 5-7, 6-2