FLUSHING, N.Y. – Following the doubles point victory, the Queens College women's tennis team
(7-4 overall) never looked back as they won five singles matches to defeat the visiting Rams of Thomas Jefferson University
(8-6 overall) Friday afternoon inside the Queens College Tennis Bubble.
Doubles Competition
Queens took an early 1-0 lead as the Knights' #1 doubles junior duo of
Maja Makal (Bialystok, Poland) / Gabriela Sciarrotta (Woodmere, N.Y.) defeated Nicole Hrbkova / Noelle Frenzel to the score of 6-4.
The Knights would take a 1-0 lead heading into singles play as the #2 doubles pair of
Nathalie Ulander (Stockholm, Sweden) /
Lilly Schmidt (Montabaur, Germany) took a 6-3 win over Rams pair of Ines Blanc/Stanislava Norets.
It would be a hard-fought defeat for the Knights #3 doubles pair of freshman
Caroline Hany-Fawzy (Alexandria, Egypt) /
sophomore Mariana Ling (Orlando, Fla) as the duo fell to the score of 7-5 against Anna Morgillo/Manni Zhang.
Singles Competition
Fawzy wasted no time giving the Knights a 2-0 lead as she quickly dispatched Blanc at #3 singles to the score of 6-1, 6-0. After the Egyptian native fell behind 1-0 in the first set, she would win the next 12 points shutting out Blanc for her second singles victory of the spring season.
Ulander would fall at #2 singles to Frenzel to the score of 6-3, 6-3 as the Rams cut the deficit down to 2-1.
But Makal who earned an ITA national ranking of #66 on Thursday (Mar. 17) convincingly defeated Hrbkova as she won 6-2, 6-2 giving Queens a 3-1 lead.
At #4 singles, Sciarrotta would clinch the match for the Knights with a two-set victory over Norets winning the first set 6-1 but would need a second set tiebreaker to clinch the match with a 7-6
(7-3) victory.
Junior Chole Certain (Obernai, France) at #5 singles would give Queens a 5-1 advantage with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Zhang before Ling closed out Friday's match with a two-set victory over Morgillo to the score of 6-1, 7-6
(7-5) for a 6-1 victory over the Rams.
UP NEXT: The Knights take a break from regional play as they welcome Division I MAAC opponent Rider University Broncs to Flushing on Tuesday (Mar. 22) morning. The first serve is set for 11:00 a.m.
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