BOCA RATON, Fla. – Playing their first road match in three weeks, the third-ranked Embry-Riddle women's tennis team won their fifth consecutive Sun Conference match with a 7-0 defeat of Northwood, Saturday at Patch Reef Park. The Eagles dropped just two games in doubles en route to their 15th overall win of 2012.
The 10th-ranked doubles team of
Rocio Frej Vitalle and
Ekaterina Kamendova registered the first point of the day for the Blue and Gold with a quick 8-0 shutout of Rose Bellevue and Julia Ferrar at No. 2 doubles. On court three,
Kristina Marova and
Paola Montero, ranked 22nd in the ITA/NAIA national doubles poll, surrendered just one game to the Northwood pair of Christine Novacovic and Melanie Snowberger , winning 8-1. ERAU's sixth-ranked tandem of
Yi Ching Chen and
Josefine Strom downed Adelaide Wood and Valentina Souki by the same margin at the top spot to complete the doubles sweep.
At No. 3 singles, 15th-ranked Kamendova extended her winning streak to 10 matches with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout of Bellevue. A quick 6-1, 6-0 defeat of Wood at the top spot improved sixth-ranked Chen's overall record to 18-4 and clinched the team win.
The Eagles next two singles wins came at the second and fourth positions, respectively, as No. 10 Frej Vitalle bested Souki 6-2, 6-2 and No. 29 Marova topped Novacovic 6-3, 6-0. The remaining singles matches, which featured Montero and Strom were both unfinished due to rain.
The Eagles close out their south Florida trip at 10 a.m. on Sunday when they take on NCAA II No. 4 Lynn.