LAKE NONA, FL. – The Gators traveled to Lake Nona on Sunday afternoon to face No.13 Pepperdine at the USTA National Campus. Florida fell 5-2 in their final match before SEC action starts next week. Florida moves to a 4-5 record ahead of conference play.
The Gators saw a tough opponent in the Waves during doubles action. Alicia Dudeney/ Bente Spee dropped the first match against Savannah Broadus/ Janice Tjen 6-2. Pepperdine then clinched the doubles point after duo, Carly Briggs/ Rachel Gailis fell 6-0 to the Waves’ Lisa Zaar/ Jasmine Conway. Malwina Rowinska and Qavia Lopez were behind 5-3 in their set before the Waves clinched the doubles point.
Florida did not see too much of a momentum change in singles action except for freshman, Malwina Rowinska snagging a Florida win. Rowinska defeated Jasmine Conway 6-4, 6-2 securing her first singles victory of the spring season.
Qavia Lopez managed to grab another point in the score column for the Gators. Lopez defeated Pepperdine senior, Nikki Redelijk in the first set 6-2, before Redelijk came back to take the second 7-5 and force a third. Lopez won the tiebreaker 1-0 and picked up her fourth singles win of the season.
Carly Briggs faced off against No.13 Lisa Zaar in singles action, falling 6-1 in both sets. Rachel Gailis also dropped her singles match with a final score of 6-2, 6-2 against No.8 Savannah Broadus.
Sara Dahlstrom fought hard against Pepperdine’s Janice Tjen but was unable to get it done. After two sets, Dahlstrom was defeated 6-3,6-2.
Lastly, Alicia Dudeney found herself in a battle against Anna…
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