TULSA, Okla. – The No. 48-ranked University of Denver women's tennis team (13-6, 4-0 Summit) battled for a 4-3 win at Tulsa to win its first of two matches in as many days on Friday.
 
With the teams knotted at 3-3, the dual came down to the No. 5 singles match where DU sophomore Alice Otis fought back from a set down to clinch the win for Denver in a third-set tiebreak.
 
Doubles:
Tulsa claimed the doubles point with wins on the Nos. 2 and 3 court. The No. 1 match was abandoned after the point was decided.
 
Singles:
After Tulsa went up 2-0 overall with a win on the top singles court, sophomore Caroline Driscoll put Denver on the board with two 6-3 sets at No. 3 singles. The Hurricane went within a point of the team win after taking No. 4 singles in a three-set fight – the first of four-straight singles matches to go to a final frame.
 
Graduate student Britt Pursell took her first set at No. 2 singles in a tiebreak, 7-2, before Tulsa's Oleksandra Nahurska leveled the match at a set apiece. Pursell rebounded to claim that third set and keep Denver in the dual.
 
Sophomore Claudia Martinez de Velasco drew Denver even with Tulsa in the first of consecutive comeback wins for DU. After dropping the first set, 6-3, she responded with her own 6-3 win in the second set before finding herself in a third-set tiebreak, which she won, 7-2.
 
Otis's No. 5 singles match followed a similar trajectory as Martinez de Velasco's. She dropped the first set but answered it with a 6-3 win in the second. The entire dual came down to her third-set tiebreak where the Denver sophomore won it, 7-5.
 
Up Next:
The University of Denver women's tennis team continues its weekend road trip with a Summit League match at Kansas City on Saturday, April 6.
 
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