Box Score OMAHA, Neb. – The No. 38-ranked University of Denver women's tennis team (11-4, 3-0 Summit) won its second Summit League match in as many days with a 6-1 victory at Omaha on Saturday.
 
DU clinched the win at 4-0 and held a 5-0 lead through the first four singles matches to finish. The remaining matches went to 10-point tiebreaks in place of thirds sets with the teams splitting results.
 
Doubles:
Denver claimed the doubles point with just three combined games lost across the two clinching matches. The sophomore team of Caroline Driscoll and Louise Wikander took the No. 2 match after breaking in the first game and then extending their lead to 5-2 and served it out.
 
DU's No. 1 team of graduate student Britt Pursell and junior Andrea Burguete Beltran finished up just moments later to give the point to Denver, breaking in their first two return games and then again in the final game.
 
At No. 3 doubles, sophomores Alice Otis and Claudia Martinez de Velasco were up a break and ready to serve for it at 5-3 when the point was clinched.
 
Singles:
Driscoll extended DU's lead to 2-0 at No. 4 singles with the first double bagel of her collegiate career. Martinez de Velasco also claimed a bagel set, doing so in the second after turning a 3-0 lead in the first set to a 6-3 win.
 
Otis secured the win for Denver with another straight-sets win, hers at No. 5 singles and rallying from an early break down in the first set. She responded with a break in her second return game and added another for a 5-3 lead and kept momentum going with a 3-0 lead to begin the second set. She would only lose one more game before grabbing the win.
 
Beltran gave DU a fourth singles win in straight sets, breaking for 3-1 and eventually finding a 5-2 lead where she served it out. The second set started on serve until she broke in the sixth game, which proved to be all she needed to seal the win.
 
Wikander rallied back from a set and a break down at No. 3 singles to force a third set but narrowly dropped it, 10-8, in the match tiebreak.
 
The final point of the day came at the No. 2 Court where Pursell traded breaks early in the first set and found herself in a tiebreak. She claimed the first and only minibreaks and easily took it, 7-1, though her opponent would take the second set. They, too, finished play in a 10-point tiebreak with Pursell coming out on top, 10-8.
 
Up Next:
The University of Denver women's tennis team heads to the East Coast for two matches in North Carolina, first playing host Charlotte on Friday, March 15, before taking on Wichita State in a neutral-site match on Saturday, March 16.
 
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