WT Takes Weekend Road Matches

BOSTON – The Vanderbilt women’s tennis team followed a 5-2 upset over No. 3 Georgia Tech with road wins against Brown and Harvard over the weekend.

The No. 25 Commodores (6-5) defeated Brown 6-1 on Saturday after sweeping the doubles point and taking wins at Nos. 1-5 in singles. Vanderbilt was able to replicate their success the following day with a 6-1 win over No.
54 Harvard.

Vanderbilt will have four days to prepare for the conference season opener against Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Results

2/24/07: Vanderbilt 6, Brown 1

Singles
1. #64 Amanda Taylor (VU) d. Daisy Ames (BU) 6-1, 6-3
2. #35 Amanda Fish (VU) d. Sara Mansur (BU) 7-6(4), 6-4
3. #96 Taka Bertrand (VU) d. Emily Ellis (BU) 6-0, 6-1
4. Courtney Ulery (VU) d. Alexa Baggio (BU) 6-3, 6-4
5. Liberty Sveke (VU) d. Tania Vucetic (BU) 7-6(3), 7-5
6. Kelley Kirkpatrick (BU) d. Hannah Blatt (VU) 6-0, 6-3

Doubles
1. #19 Fish/Taylor (VU) d. Pautler/Mansur (BU) 8-4
2. Bertrand/Newman (VU) d. Kirkpatrick/Ellis (BU) 8-2
3. Sveke/Ulery (VU) d. Ames/Sorokko (BU) 8-3

2/25/07: Vanderbilt 6, Harvard 1

Doubles
1. Amanda Fish/Amanda Taylor (V) def. Beier Ko/Lena Litvak (H), 8-4
2. Taka Bertrand/Catherine Newman (V) def. Preethi Mukundan/Elizabeth Brook (H), 8-4
3. Liberty Sveke/Courtney Ulery (V) def. Julia Forgie/Vilsa Curto (H), 8-0
Order of Finish: 2, 3, 1

Singles
1. Amanda Taylor (V) def. Lena Litvak (H), 6-3, 6-1
2. Beier Ko (H) def. Taka Bertrand (V), 6-1, 7-5
3. Catherine Newman (V) def. Preethi Mukundan (H), 6-1, 6-2
4. Courtney Ulery (V) def. Elizabeth Brook (H), 6-0, 6-3
5. Caroline Ferrell (V) def. Julia Forgie (H), 6-1, 6-0
6. Hannah Blatt (V) def. Vilsa Curto (H), 6-1, 6-3
Order of Finish: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6