Miami's Florida Trip Ends With 6-1 Loss to Liberty

Friday, January 17

Fort Myers, Fla.

10:00 a.m. ET

Miami University

Liberty

Miami's Florida Trip Ends With 6-1 Loss to Liberty

1/17/2020 1:36:00 PM | Women's Tennis

The RedHawks go to 1-1 after a 6-1 victory yesterday.

FORT MYERS, Fla. - After a season-opening victory Friday, the second leg of Miami's Florida trip would not be as fruitful as the RedHawks (1-1) dropped a 6-1 decision to the Liberty Flames (1-0) in Fort Myers on Friday.

The doubles session started in a promising manner for the 'Hawks, as the tandem of Lena Babunski and Brindtha Ramasamy took a 6-4 victory to give Miami the inside track on the doubles point. However, two close matches would both go Liberty's way and the Flames took a 1-0 lead.

All six singles matches would end in straight sets, and unfortunately for the 'Hawks, only one of them would end in Miami's favor. After Liberty claimed a decisive victory on court one, Priyana Kalita provided MU with its only point of the day as she defeated Liberty's Saraty 6-1, 6-4 on court six to bring the score to 2-1. That would be the closest Miami would get in the match, as LU would take the remaining matches to earn the 6-1 win.

The RedHawks will continue their difficult start to the non-conference schedule on Monday with a road match at Purdue.

Singles
1. Kalani Soli (Liberty) def. Brindtha Ramasamy (Miami) 6-2, 6-2
2. Alexandra Almborg (Liberty) def. Laura Rico (Miami) 7-5, 6-4
3. Esther Lovato (Liberty) def. Milana Lysova (Miami) 6-1, 6-4
4. Tiffany Nguyen (Liberty) def. Melati Devi (Miami) 6-3, 6-2
5. Micaela Ode Mitre (Liberty) def. Makenzie Myers (Miami) 6-2, 6-2
6. Priyana Kalita (Miami) def. Eloise Saraty (Liberty) 6-1, 6-4

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

Doubles
1. Nguyen/Ode Mitre (Liberty) def. Rico/Devi (Miami) 7-6
2. Soli/Saraty (Liberty) def. Lysova/Myers (Miami) 7-5
3. Ramasamy/Babunski (Miami) def. Hashiguchi/Lovato (Liberty) 6-4

Order of finish: 3, 2, 1