Washington Performs Strong On First Day of Weinman Foundation Invite

Friday, January 18

Honolulu, HI

5:00 PM

University of Washington

Weinman Foundation Invitational

Washington Performs Strong On First Day of Weinman Foundation Invite

January 19, 2019 | Women's Tennis

HONOLULU, HI --- The Washington women's tennis team had an impressive showing on the first day of the Weinman Foundation Invitational, winning seven out of nine singles matches as well as a pair of doubles matches on Friday against competition from Ole Miss and Hawaii.

Freshman Zoey Weil earned her first career Husky singles victory by taking down Allie Sanford from Ole Miss 6-4, 6-4. Freshman Sedona Gallagher beat Alzbeta Houbova (Hawaii) 6-2, 6-2. Junior Katarina Kopcalic took down the 112^th ranked player in Tereza Janatova from Ole Miss 3-6, 6-1, 7-6.

Senior Stacey Fung beat Sabina Machalova from Ole Miss, who came into the match ranked number 68 in the country, 6-3, 6-0. Sophomore Vanessa Wong defeated Alexa Bortles from Ole Miss in quick fashion, 6-4, 6-1. Senior Kenadi Hance beat Nikola Dolakova from Hawaii 6-3, 6-2. Junior Abbey Watanabe was victorious against Sophia Storch from Hawaii 6-3, 6-4.

Freshman Nika Zupancic fell to Cameron Kriscunas from Ole Miss 6-0, 3-6, 4-6. Junior Natsuho Arakawa lost to Maayan Sela from Hawaii 7-6, 5-7, 8-10.

In doubles play, freshman Delara Zamani and Watanabe lost to Melounova/Storch from Hawaii 6-7 (8-10). Kopcalic and Gallagher defeated Pits/Houbova from Hawaii 7-6, (7-5). Hance and Arakawa fell to Sela Dolakova from Hawaii 6-7 (6-8).

Jandric and Machalova (Ole Miss) beat Weil/Wong 6-1. Fung and Zupancic improved their doubles record together to 8-2 after beating Vrbenska/Janatova from Ole Miss 6-4. Bortles/Sanford (Ole Miss) defeated the Hance and Zamani duo 6-4.

The Huskies will begin the final day of play the Weinman Foundation Invitational on Saturday at 1 PM PST.

Singles Results
Weil, Zoey (Washington) def. Allie Sanford (Ole Miss) 6-4, 6-4
Gallagher, Sedona (Washington) def. Houbova, Alzbeta (Hawaii) 6-2, 6-2
Fung, Stacey (Washington) def. #68 Sabina Machalova (Ole Miss) 6-3, 6-0
Wong, Vanessa (Washington) def. Alexa Bortles (Ole Miss) 6-4, 6-1
Cameron Kriscunas (Ole Miss) def. Zupancic, Nika (Washington) 0-6, 6-3, 6-4
Hance, Kenadi (Washington) def. Dolakova, Nikola (Hawaii) 6-3, 6-2
Sela, Maayan (Hawaii) def. Arakawa, Natsuho (Washington) 6-7, 7-5, 1-0 (10-8)
#90 Kopcalic, Katarina (Washington) def. #112 Tereza Janatova (Ole Miss) 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5)
Watanabe, Abbey (Washington) def. Storch, Sophia (Hawaii) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles Results
Melounova/Storch (Hawaii) def. Zamani/Watanabe (Washington) 7-6 (10-8)
Kopcalic/Gallagher (Washington) def. Pits/Houbova (Hawaii) 7-6 (7-5)
Sela/Dolakova (Hawaii) def. Hance/Arakawa (Washington) 7-6 (8-6)
Jandric/Machalova (Ole Miss) def. Weil/Wong (Washington) 6-1
Fung/Zupancic (Washington) def. Vrbenska/Janatova (Ole Miss) 6-4
Bortles/Sanford (Ole Miss) def. Hance/Zamani (Washington) 6-2

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