RedHawks Bested by Penn, 5-2

Saturday, March 9

Orlando, FL

12:00 P.M. ET

Miami University

Penn

3/9/2019 4:05:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Kalita and Devi earned singles victories for Miami.

ORLANDO, Fla. - In the second leg of its Florida trip, the Miami University women's tennis team dropped a 5-2 decision to the Penn Quakers Saturday at the USTA National Campus. The RedHawks fall to 2-9 with the defeat.

The Quakers would start doubles with 6-2 win on the second court, but the RedHawks quickly answered back with a win on the third court as Makenzie Myers and Janelle Ghanem combined for a 6-4 victory. However, Penn would still claim the opening point with a 6-4 win at first doubles.

Three consecutive two-set wins on courts two, five, and one clinched the match for Penn, and a follow-up victory for the Quakers in a three-set battle on court three made it 5-0. However, Miami would get on the board in the last two matches of the day. At sixth singles, Melati Devi won a third-set tiebreak to take down Penn's Jennifer Richards. Similarly, Priyana Kalita won a match that featured tiebreaks in every set, including a 10-8 tiebreak in the deciding third set. These two RedHawk wins closed out the match with the 5-2 scoreline.

Full results are below.

Miami returns home next weekend, hosting Wright State on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Riverside Athletic Club in Hamilton.

Singles
1. Iuliia Bryzgalova (Penn) def. Milana Lysova (Miami) 7-5, 6-0
2. Marta Kowalska (Penn) def. Jordan Ortega-Mendez (Miami) 6-1, 6-1
3. Marija Curnic (Penn) def. Emily Struble (Miami) 1-6, 6-1, 6-2
4. Priyana Kalita (Miami) def. Ashley Zhu (Penn) 7-6, 6-7, 1-0 (10-8)
5. OJ Singh (Penn) def. Makenzie Myers (Miami) 6-1, 6-1
6. Melati Devi (Miami) def. Jennifer Richards (Penn) 7-5, 2-6, 1-0 (10-7)

Order of finish: 2, 5, 1, 3, 6, 4

Doubles
1. Kowalska/Curnic (Penn) def. Lyosva/Kalita (Miami) 6-4
2. Bryzgalova/Singh (Penn) def. Struble/Devi (Miami) 6-2
3. Myers/Ghanem (Miami) def. Zhu/Xie (Penn) 6-4

Order of finish: 2, 3, 1