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No. 4 Blue Devils Fall At #12 Vanderbilt On Sunday
1/25/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Jan. 25, 2004
NASHVILLE, TENN.-- On Sunday, 12th-ranked Vanderbilt built on the momentum of winning a close doubles point to go on to defeat fourth-ranked Duke, 7-0, at the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Tennis Center in Nashville, Tenn.
In doubles action, Vanderbilt's 28th-ranked duo of Audra Falk and Annie Menees downed Duke's Parker Goyer and Jennifer Zika, 8-1, at the second position, but the Blue Devil tandem of Saras Arasu and Julia Smith came from behind to defeat Amanda Fish and Ashley Schellhas, 9-7, at the third slot. The point came down to the feature match of the day as the Commodores second-ranked duo of Kelly Schmandt and Aleke Tsoubanos against Duke's fifth-ranked Amanda Johnson and Tory Zawacki.
Vanderbilt's senior tandem won the first game, but the match was back and forth throughout. Neither team was able to hold many of their own serves. Ahead 8-7, Tsoubanos had the match and the doubles point on her racket. The Chesterfield, Mo., native played a serve-and-volley at 40-30 that lead to both teams exchanging volleys at the net. Eventually, the Blue Devils ran out of steam, volleying into the net and allowing Vanderbilt take a 1-0 team lead in the match.
Vanderbilt carried its momentum into the singles matches. The marquee matchup at the No. 1 position featured 39th-ranked Falk against Duke's fifth-ranked Johnson. Falk put on a dominant performance, taking the first set at love and winning the second set, 6-3, to give Vanderbilt a 2-0 lead.
At No. 4 singles, 66th-ranked Fish defeated Duke's 95th-ranked Smith as Fish won the first set, 6-1, and then battled her way into a second-set tiebreaker, which she also took, 7-3. The clinching match came at the second slot as Tsoubanos knocked off 64th-ranked Zika. Tsoubanos won her first set, 6-3, and then took a quick 5-2 lead in the second set. Zika fought back to even the set at five apiece, but Tsoubanos dug in and took the remaining two games to put Vanderbilt up 4-0.
To close out the match, 94th-ranked Schmandt posted a 7-6 (4), 6-4, win over Duke's 89th-ranked Zawacki at the third position. At the fifth position, 77th-ranked Schellhas won her first set, 6-1, but dropped the second set, 5-7. Schellhas earned two early breaks in the third set and went on to win, 6-4.
After taking the first set, 7-6, Duke's Kristin Cargill went on to lose the next two sets to Menees, 2-6, 6-10 at the sixth slot to close out the match.
Duke will next travel to Lexington, Ky., to battle 15th-ranked Kentucky on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and 24th-ranked Texas A&M on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
No. 12 Vanderbilt def. No. 4 Duke, 7-0 Doubles 1. No. 2 Schmandt/Tsoubanos (VU) def. No. 5 Johnson/Zawacki (DU), 9-7 2. No. 28 Falk/Menees (VU) def. Goyer/Zika (DU), 8-1 3. Arasu/Smith (DU) def. Schellhas/Fish (VU), 9-7 Order of finish: 2, 3, 1*
Singles 1. No. 39 Audra Falk (VU) def. No. 5 Amanda Johnson (DU), 6-0, 6-3 2. Aleke Tsoubanos (VU) def. No. 64 Jennifer Zika (DU), 6-3, 7-5 3. No. 94 Kelly Schmandt (VU) def. No. 89 Tory Zawacki (DU), 7-6 (4), 6-4 4. No. 66 Amanda Fish (VU) def. No. 95 Julia Smith (DU), 6-1, 7-6 (3) 5. No. 77 Ashley Schellhas (VU) def. No. 91 Saras Arasu (DU), 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 6. Annie Menees (VU) def. Kristin Cargill (DU), 6-7 (5), 6-2, 1-0 (10-6) Order of finish: 1, 4, 2*, 3, 5, 6
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