Wildcats Face Tough Competition at Wake W. Tennis Invite Over Weekend

Friday, September 25

Winston-Salem, NC

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Wake Forest Invitational

Wildcats Face Tough Competition at Wake W. Tennis Invite Over Weekend

9/28/2009 9:29:09 AM | Women's Tennis

Gavin McFarlin - Assistant SID

Final Results (pdf)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Davidson women's tennis team participated in its second fall event and played some of the top teams in the nation in Duke and Illinois over the weekend of Sept. 25-27 at the Wake Forest Invitational.

The Wildcats sent eight players this weekend to the invite, with all eight of them competing in both singles and doubles action.

Virginia Berry (Spartanburg, S.C.), the Wildcats' No. 1 singles play last year hung tough against two ranked players as she played in the “A” Singles bracket. Berry's weekend started off with a match against the 57th ranked player who was from Duke, as she dropped a 6-2, 6-4 decision. After dropped a 7-6, 6-4 match in her first consolation match, Berry then faced off against another Duke player, this one ranked 19th and seeded second in the bracket, and fell by the count of 7-5, 6-4.

Stephani Synn (Conover, N.C.) saw her first action with the Wildcats, joining Berry in the “A” bracket. She opened up against an Old Dominion player who was ranked 116th and fell 6-1 6-0. Synn then dropped her next two matches, one of them against the third seed in the “A” bracket and ranked 42nd overall from Illinois, falling 6-0, 6-2.

The “B” Singles bracket saw senior Ali Gores (Charlotte, N.C.) and Samantha Galainena (Burr Ridge, Ill.) represent the Wildcats. Gores, in her first fall action of the season, dropped two hard-fought three-setters to two players from Richmond (6-2, 3-6, 6-1 and 3-6, 6-2, 6-2). Gores closed out the weekend nearly picking up a win in her final consolation match, losing a super tie-breaker 10-5 in her final match.

Galainena lost all four of her matches, falling by the scores of 6-1, 7-5 to start her weekend, and then dropping 6-2, 6-1, and 6-3, 6-1 and 6-1, 6-2 matches in the consolation rounds.

Teresa Wang (Charlotte, N.C.), Catherine Wood (Greensboro, N.C.), Romina Clemente (Canton, Ohio) and Katharine Dicconson (Pacific Grove, Calif.) all played in the “C” Singles bracket over the weekend. Wang, working her way back from missing all of last year, earned a win in her second match of the consolation round with a 3-6, 7-6, 6-2.

Clemente also earned a win in her final match of the weekend, taking home a win over a player from UNC Greensboro.

Dicconson dropped all four of her weekend matches, but almost finished out the weekend with a victory, falling in a super tie-breaker to a player from Richmond, 10-6, after both players split their first two sets, 3-6, 6-4.

All eight players then each teamed up in doubles action. Berry and Synn opened doubles play with an 8-2 victory before falling in a hard-fought 9-8 decision in their second match. Also teaming up over the weekend was Gores and Wang in the top doubles bracket, falling in all three matches (8-1, 8-6, and 8-2).

Galainena and Dicconson, along with Clemente and Wood played in the round-robin bracket, each playing three matches.

Davidson stays on the road and travels to Blacksburg, Va. to take part in the Virginia Tech Fall Classic, Oct. 2-4.