CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Oregon women’s tennis team clinched the doubles point and led Charlotte 2-1, but the 49ers rallied for a 4-2 win Saturday on the final day of the ITA Kickoff at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
Charlotte, who qualified for the NCAA Tournament a year ago, won three straight singles matches to complete its comeback victory.
The doubles points came down to an extra-point tiebreaker at third doubles after the Ducks and 49ers split the top two doubles matches. Candela Aparisi and Karin Young outlasted Charlotte’s Lucie Petruzelova and Emma Wilkins 7-6 (6) to give Oregon a 1-0 lead headed to singles.
Jo-Yee Chan and Nina Geissler came away with a 6-3 win at No. 2 after UO’s top pairing of Sophie Luescher and Uxia Martinez Moral fell 4-6.
After Charlotte evened the score with a straight-set win on Court 3, but Martinez Moral regained the lead for the Ducks with a 6-0, 6-3 victory on Court 5. The Niners then won the next two matches, both in straight sets at Nos. 2 and 4.
Trailing 3-2, Oregon needed to win the last two remaining matches – both of which went to a third set. Luescher overcame a 6-4 first-set loss to the nation’s 98th-ranked player Lucia Quiterio, taking the second set by a score of 7-5. Quiterio rallied for a 6-4 win in the third set, earning the match’s deciding point.
Young and Shona Nakona traded tiebreaker-set victories at the sixth position, but went unfinished in the third set once the match was clinched.
Oregon returns home and begins a four-match homestand Friday against Eastern Washington at 12 p.m. at the Student Tennis Center.
Match #3
Oregon vs. Charlotte
1/27/2024 at Chapel Hill, N.C.
(Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center)
Charlotte 4, Oregon 2
Singles competition
1. #98 Quiterio,Lucia (CLT) def. Sophie Luescher (ORE) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
2. Petruzelova,Lucie (CLT) def. Nina Geissler (ORE) 6-4, 6-2
3. Teixido Garcia,Ares (CLT) def. Olivia Symons (ORE) 6-4, 6-0
4. Suchankova,Sara (CLT) def. Jo-Yee Chan (ORE) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
5. Uxia Martinez Moral (ORE) def. Aranda,Lucia (CLT) 6-0, 6-3
6. Nakano,Shona (CLT) vs. Karin Young (ORE) 6-7 (0-7), 7-6 (7-3), 3-1 (unfinished)
Doubles competition
1. Quiterio,Lucia/Teixido Garcia,Ares (CLT) def. Uxia Martinez Moral/Sophie Luescher (ORE) 6-4
2. Nina Geissler/Jo-Yee Chan (ORE) def. Nakano,Shona/Suchankova,Sara (CLT) 6-3
3. Candela Aparisi/Karin Young (ORE) def. Wilkins,Emma/Petruzelova,Lucie (CLT) 7-6 (8-6)
Match Notes:
Oregon 1-2
Charlotte…
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