SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Colorado Buffaloes tennis team had three athletes lose in the quarterfinals at the ITA Mountain region championships at the George S. Eccles Tennis Center on Friday. For the third day in Utah there would be two rounds of doubles matches, followed by one round of singles. The remainder of the day was extra matches being played.
The morning began in the round of 16 for senior Aya El Sayed and freshman Pia Rebec against Alice Otis and Claudia Martinez de Velasco of Denver. After two days of learning how to play with each other, they came were hot out the gates and didn’t slow down winning the match 8-3 to advance to the quarterfinals.
There was no time for rest as the next round began immediately after and would not be an easy task against the No. 1 seeded Jacque Dunyon and Yujia Huang from BYU. After a back and forth match the Buffs would take a 7-6 lead after an amazing return by Rebec to clinch the point. BYU would battle back to tie the set up and force a tiebreaker. Despite the efforts, El Sayed and Rebec would fall just a few points short of the upset, losing the match 8-7(3).
After the tough defeat in doubles the Buffs would turn their attention to the singles quarterfinals where senior Elys Ventura would take on No. 16 seeded Marcela Lopez from Utah. Ventura would drop the first set 6-3 and was unable to recover losing the second set 6-0.
After two tough losses the Buffs would still have chances to improve with extra matches in both singles and doubles. Colorado would go 8-2 overall in extra matches today.
Up Next
The Buffs are back in action at the Ita Mountain Region Championships tomorrow with extra matches in both singles and doubles play starting at 8:30 a.m. at the George S. Eccles Tennis Centr.
Results
ITA Mountain Region Championships
Doubles
Round of 64
Aya El Sayed/Pia Rebec (CU) def. Marlene Foerster/ Lou Anne Guerbert (NEV) 8-7(2)
Annabel Davis/Ida Johansson (ID) def. Mila Stanojevic/Elys Ventura (CU) 8-7(1)
Zara Lennon/Sarah Weekley (CSU) def. Ellen Puzak/Betina Tokac (CU) 8-4
Samantha Horwood/Emma Kamper (UT) def. Carri Hayes/Anya Nelson (CU) 8-4
Round of 32
Aya El Sayed/Pia Rebec (CU) def. Bente Vandeputte/Maud Vandeputte (NM) 8-4
Round of 16
Aya El Sayed/Pia Rebec (CU) def. Otis Alice/Claudia Martinez de Velasco (DU) 8-3
Quarterfinals
Jacque Dunyon/Yujia Huang…
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