DENVER – The No. 46-ranked University of Denver women's tennis team (12-4) earned a 7-0 sweep over Kansas City in its first of two Summit League matches of the weekend on Saturday afternoon at Denver Tennis Park.
In marked the 50
th-consecutive Summit League win in the regular season for DU, a streak that dates back to when Denver joined the conference in 2013-14.
Doubles:
Denver captured the doubles point with wins on courts 2 and 3. Sophomore
Andrea Burguete Beltran and freshman
Claudia Martinez de Velasco captured the first win of the day with a 6-1 in No. 2 doubles, trading breaks to start the match before going up another break for 3-1 and adding another one for a 5-1 lead.
Freshmen
Anastasia Simonov and
Louise Wikander gave DU the 1-0 lead after breaking in the fifth game and holding serve for a 6-3 win.
Senior
Britt Pursell and fifth-year student
Taylor Melville were leading 4-3 when the match went unfinished.
Singles:
All six of Denver's singles matches completed in straight sets, starting with freshman
Caroline Driscoll's win in No. 5 singles after dropping just two games, one in each set.
Melville broke in her opening game on the way to a 6-1 win. She finished the match with a break to go up 5-3 and closed it out to put DU within one match of the team victory.
Martinez de Velasco and Pursell finished within minutes of each other to put Denver up 5-0. The freshman jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first set and battled back from a break down in the second set to win her No. 6 singles match, 6-3 6-4.
Pursell broke in consecutive return games to go up 5-3 in the first set and followed it with a 3-0 early lead in the second set on the way to her No. 3 singles win.
Burguete Beltran easily took the first set, 6-2, but faced a tougher battle in the second set. Down 1-3, she began to rally back, breaking to get to 4-4 and then winning the final two games.
Wikander, too, fought for her win on court 5, breaking to even it up at 5-5 before taking the tiebreak, 7-2. Like Burguete Beltran, she faced a 1-3 deficit but again broke to level it at 4-4 and broke once more in the final game.
Up Next:
No. 46 Denver hosts its second Summit League match in as many days when it welcomes South Dakota to Denver Tennis Park on Sunday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m. MT.
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