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MADISON, Wisc. – Vanderbilt’s No. 17 women’s tennis team dropped their fourth consecutive dual match at the ITA tournament to No. 12 Virginia Commonwealth on Friday morning (5-2).
The Rams (7-1) narrowly clinched the doubles point with a tiebreaker win over Commodores Amanda Taylor and Liberty Sveke (9-8). Caroline Ferrell and Hannah Blatt started the contest by defeating Rams Viktoria Konstantinova and Maria Klokotzky 8-3, marking the duos first win of the season, but Taka Bertrand and Catherine Newman fell 8-5 to Ram competitors.
Vanderbilt’s Amanda Taylor earned her second win of the ITA tournament against Klokotzky (6-3, 6-0) at No. 3 singles. Freshman Newman followed with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Marianna Yuferova to give the Commodores their final point of the morning.
The Commodores (2-4) will play a final consolation match on Saturday against Texas Christian at 9 a.m. TCU defeated the Commodores 4-3 in the first round of the tournament in 2006.
Virginia Commonwealth 5 Vanderbilt 2
Doubles
1. Yuferova/Borisova (VCU) d. Bertrand/Newman (VU) 8-5
2. Petrashevitch/Uvarova (VCU) d. Taylor/Sveke (VU) 9-8
3. Ferrell/Blatt (VU) d. Klokotzky/Konstantiova (VCU) 8-3
Singles
1. Tatsiana Uvarova (VCU) d. Taka Bertrand (VU) 6-1, 6-3
2. Catherine Newman (VU) d. Marianna Yuferova (VCU) 6-4, 6-4
3. Amanda Taylor (VU) d. Marianna Yuferova (VCU) 6-3, 6-0
4. Olga Borisova (VCU) d. Caroline Ferrell (VU) 6-4, 6-2
5. Viktoria Konstantinova (VCU) d. Liberty Sveke (VU) 6-2, 6-4
6. Vera Petrashevitch (VCU) d. Hannah Blatt (VU) 6-2, 6-4
Order of finish: 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6
