DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The third-ranked Embry-Riddle women's tennis team rattled off three doubles victories en route to an 8-1 defeat of ninth-ranked Southern Nazarene (1-3) on Tuesday. The Eagles' second win of the week improved the squad's overall record to 13-1 on the year as ERAU heads into a showdown against fourth-ranked Oklahoma Christian at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
Sixth-ranked
Yi Ching Chen and
Josefine Strom earned their 18th doubles win of the season, courtesy of an 8-1 decision against Masha Andrianova and Natalia Moreno at No. 1 doubles. No. 22
Kristina Marova and
Paola Montero maintained their unbeaten streak against NAIA opponents with an 8-0 shutout of Mariana Shipilova and Hilary Galbraith at No. 3 and
Ekaterina Kamendova and
Giovanna Tomiotto completed the doubles sweep with an 8-4 defeat of Deisi Bolivar and Karina Kotova.
The Eagles' first two singles points came at the fifth and sixth spots where Montero (6-2, 6-1) and Tomiotto (6-2, 6-0) earned straight set wins against Kotova and Kimberly Wiedemann, respectively, to clinch the team victory.
The nation's No. 6 player
Yi Ching Chen beat 19
th-ranked Andrianova 6-1, 6-1 at the top singles position and Kamendova, ranked 15
th nationally, secured the Eagles' seventh point by holding off 46th-ranked Moreno 6-0, 6-4 on court two.
Playing at the third spot for just the second time this season, No. 29 Marova dropped the first set 6-3, but bounced back to take the second 7-5 against Bolivar. The tiebreaker went to the SNU junior who pulled out a tight 11-9 win in the third set to record the Crimson Storm's only point of the day.
Strom showed her resilience at No. 4 singles, rallying from a 5-2 deficit to take the first set 7-5 and then holding off Shipilova 7-6 (7-4) in the second set to close out the Eagles' scoring.