Box Score Beaumont, Texas -
Trang Dao picked up a singles point at flight one, but it wasn't enough as the New Orleans Privateers women's tennis team lost 4-1 to the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders in the opening round of the Southland tournament on Friday. The Privateers season ended with a 10-11 mark.
The Islanders started the day by earning the doubles point with wins at flight one and three. Hortense Boscher and Luna Dormet topped the Privateers' tandem of
Trang Dao and
Yurina Asai 6-4. The clinching match was won by Jelena Dzinic and Maria Maldonado when they took a 6-3 decision over
Claudette Gilhespie and
Lea Alguacil. The match at flight two was pushed to a tiebreak at 6-6 when the point was decided.
The Privateers quickly leveled the score at 1-1 when Dao defeated Boscher for the second time this season. The junior posted her 38
th career singles victory by taking the match in straight sets with a 6-4, 7-5 win. However, the Islanders turned the tide in their favor shortly afterward.
Dzinic outlasted
Anja Luethi in a second set tiebreak to take the match at flight two and put the Islanders back ahead. Carolina Bulatovic topped
Mar Gendra to bring the Islanders advantage to 3-1. The match finished at flight five in a three-set thriller.
Marina Vicens Miquel and
Brittany Johnson split the first two sets with Miquel taking the first and Johnson winning the second. Miquel outlasted Johnson 6-4 in the third set to advance the Islanders to the semifinals.
The other two matches were both in the third set when the Islanders posted the overall victory. Gilhespie was about to begin the third set against Dormet at flight three. Asai and Louise Trigona were tied at 1-1 in the third set when the match was finished.
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