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Match Recap: Women's Tennis |

Women’s Tennis Drops Conference Match at Illinois State

The Flames won the doubles point and a match at No. 6 singles in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the Redbirds

NORMAL, Ill. (March 29, 2024) – Playing in very windy conditions Saturday afternoon, the UIC women's tennis program (6-10, 2-1 MVC) dropped its first Missouri Valley Conference contest of the season, as the Flames fell 5-2 to Illinois State (11-6, 2-1 MVC) at the Gregory Street Tennis Courts.
 
The Flames won the doubles point and at the No. 6 singles position in Saturday's loss to the Redbirds.
COMMENT FROM HEAD COACH ELIZABETH LUMPKIN ROBINSON
 
"We played an extremely tough doubles point but weren't able to out-compete our opponents from Illinois State in singles competition. Our student-athletes did not play their best matches but they were fighting to try different plans all the way through today's match. The environment and windy conditions gave us a good experience playing in difficult weather as we transition to more outdoor tennis matches."
 
MATCH RECAP
  • The Flames won the doubles point for their third match in a row. UIC's No. 1 doubles pair of Agnes Gustafsson (Paris, France/Akademi Båstad Gymnasium) and Mayu Ushio (Yamaguchi, Japan/Miami University) and the No. 2 doubles team of Tamara Malazonia (Birmingham, United Kingdom/St. Paul's School for Girls) and Camille Belberka (Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg, France Seward County Community College (Kan.) both won their matches 6-4.
  • In singles competition, Anaïs Brion (Neuilly Sur Seine, France/Texas A&M - Corpus Christi) won her match at No. 6 singles in straight sets. The sophomore has won the last three singles matches she has competed in and has six singles victories in 2024.
  • Illinois State would win the other five singles matches to clinch the overall match.
  • Outside of a three-set match at No. 2 singles, the other five singles matches between the Flames and Redbirds were decided in straight sets.
Full results from Saturday's match are below.
 
RESULTS
 
ISU 5, UIC 2
 
Doubles – UIC wins the doubles point
  1. Gustafsson/Ushio (UIC) def. Zlatanovic/Caculovic (ISU) 6-4
  2. Malazonia/Belberka (UIC) def. Kolarevic/Pomarolli (ISU) 6-4
  3. Limparis/Sanz (ISU) def. Rodriguez Gregoris/Ryan (UIC) 6-0
Singles
  1. Zlatanoic (ISU) def. Gustafsson (UIC) 6-2, 6-3
  2. Caculovic (ISU) def. Malazonia (UIC) 5-7, 6-3, 10-6
  3. Kolarevic (ISU) def. Ushio (UIC) 6-1, 6-3
  4. Pomarolli (ISU) def. Belberka (UIC) 6-3, 6-2
  5. Sanz (ISU) def. Ryan (UIC) 6-4, 6-1
  6. Brion (UIC) def. Rodrigo (ISU) 3-6, 6-4, 10-3
UP NEXT                              
  • The Flames are back in action Saturday as the program hosts Northern Iowa in a conference clash.
  • Saturday's match starts at 11 a.m. and will take place at either the XS Tennis Village or Flames Outdoor Tennis Courts.
  • The Flames are on a five-match winning streak against the Panthers, dating back to 2006. UIC leads the all-time series 6-3.
  • Last season UIC defeated UNI 6-1 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Saturday's match is the first held in Chicago between the two programs since 2016.
FOLLOW THE FLAMES
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