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Women's Tennis

Women's Tennis Falls to West Virginia 5-2

March 9, 2011

Results

HARMAR, Pa. - The Duquesne women's tennis team opened its new facility - the Alpha Tennis Center - with a 5-2 loss to Big East rival West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon.

Duquesne falls to 3-7 overall while West Virginia improves to 3-7.

The first two doubles matches were split - WVU's Liv Pettersson and Veronica Cardenas defeating Judy Li and Madeline Bittner 8-5 while the Dukes' Samantha Noble and Megan O'Sullivan were 8-2 winners over Mary Chupa and Emily Mathis.

The doubles point would be decided by the winner of #3 spot between DU's team of Ana Mungo / Tara Majdalani and WVU's Melis Tanik / Ashley Pilsbury. The Dukes got off to an early 3-0 lead, but would only win one game the rest of the way, falling 8-4 and giving the Mountaineers the doubles point.

In singles competition, Duquesne won two of the six matches. Mungo was a 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 winner over Tanik at #1 and Li defeated Mathis 6-4, 6-3 at #2.

At #3 singles, O'Sullivan won the first set over Chupa 6-4, but fell 6-1 in the second set and 6-4 in the deciding set.

Noble and Cardenas also split the first two sets at #4 singles - Noble winning the first set 6-0 and Cardenas taking the second set 6-4. In a hard fought third set, it Cardenas who came out on top with a 7-5 win.

WVU took the #5 and #6 singles points in straight sets. Pilsbury over Majdalani at #5 by a score of 7-5, 6-4 and Pettersson over Alrissa Tobe at #6 by a score of 6-3, 6-4.

Next up for Duquesne is Army on Sat. March 21. Match time is at 1:30 P.M.

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Players Mentioned

Madeline Bittner

Madeline Bittner

5' 7"
Freshman
Judy Li

Judy Li

5' 9"
Freshman
Alrissa Tobe

Alrissa Tobe

5' 0"
Freshman
Ana Mungo

Ana Mungo

5' 4"
Junior
Megan O

Megan O'Sullivan

5' 8"
Freshman
Tara Majdalani

Tara Majdalani

Freshman
Samantha Noble

Samantha Noble

Freshman

Players Mentioned

Madeline Bittner

Madeline Bittner

5' 7"
Freshman
Judy Li

Judy Li

5' 9"
Freshman
Alrissa Tobe

Alrissa Tobe

5' 0"
Freshman
Ana Mungo

Ana Mungo

5' 4"
Junior
Megan O

Megan O'Sullivan

5' 8"
Freshman
Tara Majdalani

Tara Majdalani

Freshman
Samantha Noble

Samantha Noble

Freshman

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