Utah Women's Tennis Completes Third Day Of Regionals

Friday, October 17

Salt Lake City, Utah

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University of Utah

ITA Central Region Championships

Utah Women's Tennis Completes Third Day Of Regionals

10/17/2008 12:00 AM | Women's Tennis

Oct. 17, 2008

SALT LAKE CITY- Andrea Maughan made it to the quarterfinal round in consolation play Friday at the Wilson/ITA Central Region Championships in Salt Lake City.

Maughan had a bye in the round of 32 then went on to battle Tara Eckel of Oklahoma in a two set match with a super tie breaker. Maughan took the first set 6-3, came up short in the second 4-6, and beat out Eckel in the super tie breaker 10-7.

"Today was an overall struggle," said head coach Mat Iandolo. "Hopefully we learned a lot from the adversity we faced. [Assistant Coach] Ruth Ann and I have a good idea of what needs to be worked on, the team is going to grow from this. Andrea is having a good run in the consolation rounds. Erin Monson had a good run in main draw making it to the round of 16."

Maughan will compete against Laryssa Ferreira of Wichita State at 9:00 a.m. Saturday in the George S. Eccles Tennis Center

After a successful day Thursday that saw Erin Monson knock off the No. 9-seed, she continued her solid play Friday with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Natalia Salum of New Mexico State. In the sound of 16, her second match of the day, she fell to the No. 7-seeded player Pichitrra Thongdach from Boise State, 6-1, 6-1. Utah's No. 14-seeded Anastasia Putilina held her own in a match against Nanar Airapetian (Arkansas) but was unable to come up with a win, falling, 6-4, 7-5.

The doubles team of Karine Bourdages and Lisa Johnson fell to Rocio Frej and Jana Mackova of BSU, 8-4. Evgenia Kryuchkova and Leigh Walsh were topped by Lutfiana Budiharto and Anna Egorova from Wichita, 8-0.

In other consolation play Julie Tukuafu defeated Christine Abayan (Air Force) in the round of 32, 6-1, 7-6(2), but fell in the round of 16 to Florentina Hanisch (Wichita), 7-6(3), 6-2. Johnson was topped by Marie Huet (OU), 6-1, 6-3. Walsh lost to Torrie Browing (Wichita), 7-6(5), 6-3. Bourdages fell to Jie Zeng of Tulsa, 6-4, 7-5. Dee Dee Nelson made it past the first round with the withdrawal of her opponent and was taken out in the second by Melissa Esposito of Colorado, 6-0, 6-0. Lexi Provancha duked it out with Meghan Kiser (AFA) in the round of 32, winning 4-6, 7-6(4), 10-3, while in the second she fell to Anastasia Erofeeva (Tulsa), 6-3, 6-3.

SINGLES PLAYRound of 32Nanar Airapetian (ARK) def. Anastasia Putilina (Utah); 6-4, 7-5Erin Monson (Utah) def. Natalia Salum (NMSU); 6-4, 6-4
Round of 16Pichitrra Thongdach (BSU) def. Erin Monson (Utah); 6-1, 6-1.
DOUBLES PLAYRound of 16Rocio Frej/Jana Mackova (BSU) def. Karine Bourdages/Lisa Johnson (Utah); 8-4Lutfiana Budiharto/Anna Egorova (Wichita) def. E. Kryuchkova/L. Walsh (Utah); 8-0
SINGLES PLAY (CONSOLATION)Round of 32Julie Tukuafu (Utah) def. Christine Abayan (AFA); 6-1, 7-6(2)Marie Huet (OU) def. Lisa Johnson (Utah); 6-1, 6-3Torrie Browning (Wichita) def. Leigh Walsh (Utah); 7-6(5), 6-3Jie Zeng (Tulsa) def. Karine Bourdages (Utah); 6-4, 7-5Dee Dee Nelson (Utah); def (ns)Lexi Provancha (Utah) def. Meghan Kiser (AFA); 4-6, 7-6(4), 10-3Andrea Maughan (Utah); BYE
Round of 16Florentina Hanisch (Wichita) def. Julie Tukuafu (Utah); 7-6(3), 6-2Melissa Esposito (CU) def. Dee Dee Nelson (Utah); 6-0, 6-0Anastasia Erofeeva (Tulsa) def. Lexi Provancha (Utah); 6-3, 6-3Andrea Maughan (Utah) def. Tara Eckel (OU); 6-3, 4-6, 10-7