BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The No. 37-ranked University of Denver women's tennis team (8-4, 0-0 Summit) swept St. Thomas, 7-0, in its first Summit League match of the season on Saturday afternoon at the Lifetime 98^th Street courts.
 
Denver captured the doubles point and followed it up with six singles wins, all without dropping a set.
 
Doubles:
DU shuffled its doubles lineups and lost no more than three games on any of the three courts. Leading the way was a bagel victory for the sophomore duo of Claudia Martinez de Velasco and Alice Otis – the second for Martinez de Velasco in her doubles career. For the first time in their careers, sophomores Caroline Driscoll and Louise Wikander took the No. 1 doubles slot and captured a 6-3 win. Freshman Karsyn Evans made her collegiate doubles debut alongside junior Andrea Burguete Beltran and matched Driscoll/Wikander's score.
 
Singles:
DU began singles play with two 6-1 6-0 wins in the top two matches. Beltran was the first to finish, doing so at No. 1 singles and matching her best collegiate singles effort – and her top score while playing in the No. 1 spot.
 
Wikander moved up into the No. 2 slot for the second time in her career and the first time this season, losing just one game for the third time at a Pioneer.
 
Martinez de Velasco lost only two games in her opening set and was up 3-0 in the second when her opponent retired. It was just the second time the sophomore has played as high as No. 4 in a singles lineup for Denver in her career.
 
Like her classmate, Driscoll, too, earned a 6-2 first set before taking the second, 6-4, to give her a sixth straight-sets win in 2024.
 
Otis used two 6-3 sets to win at No. 5 singles, her second-best victory in singles since joining Denver this season.
 
Finally, Evans appeared in the singles lineup for the fourth time this season and captured her second win, going 6-4 6-3 during Saturday's match.
 
Up Next:
The University of Denver women's tennis team continues its weekend road trip with its seventh match against a Power-5 opponent this season, visiting Minnesota on Sunday, March 3, at 12 p.m. CT/11 a.m. MT.
 
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