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Grand Canyon University Athletics
Saturday, April 27
Brownsville, Texas
7 a,m.
Grand Canyon
4
vs
2
UT Rio Grande Valley
Lopes move on to WAC finals
4/27/2019 11:04:00 AM | Women's Tennis
GCU advances to conference title dual for 1st time
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Grand Canyon women's tennis team advanced to the WAC championship match with a 4-2 semifinal win Saturday over UT Rio Grande Valley. The Lopes took the doubles point and won three singles matches to punch their ticket to their first-ever WAC Tournament final.
The Lopes (10-8) got revenge for the 4-3 loss to the Vaqueros in last year's WAC semifinals. In that match, the Lopes were the underdogs going up against the top-seeded Vaqueros. In Saturday's meeting, the seeds and the script were flipped.
Like the Lopes had done during the regular season, they took the doubles point and the early lead. The All-WAC first-team doubles pair of sophomore Autum Prudhomme and junior Celia Morel started the match with a 6-2 win at No. 3. After UTRGV won at No. 1, sophomores Martina Lo Pumo and Ludovica Infantino clinched the point with a 7-5 win at No. 2.
In singles, the Lopes extended their lead to 2-0 with a straight-set win by Infantino at No 5. GCU and UTRGV split the next two matches, falling at No. 3 and winning at No. 2 with Morel's 6-2, 6-2 win. A win at No. 1 by UTRGV's Dominique Ibarra, the WAC Player of the Year, cut into the Lopes lead at 3-2.
The match was clinched by Lo Pumo at No. 4. In 2018, the sophomore lost the final match in a tiebreaker, ending the Lopes' season in the semifinals. This year, Lo Pumo bounced back and punched GCU's ticket to the finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win.
The Lopes will play the No. 2 New Mexico State-No. 3 Kansas City winner at 7 a.m. Sunday (Phoenix time). With a win, the team would go to the NCAA Division I tournament for the first time in school history.
The Lopes (10-8) got revenge for the 4-3 loss to the Vaqueros in last year's WAC semifinals. In that match, the Lopes were the underdogs going up against the top-seeded Vaqueros. In Saturday's meeting, the seeds and the script were flipped.
Like the Lopes had done during the regular season, they took the doubles point and the early lead. The All-WAC first-team doubles pair of sophomore Autum Prudhomme and junior Celia Morel started the match with a 6-2 win at No. 3. After UTRGV won at No. 1, sophomores Martina Lo Pumo and Ludovica Infantino clinched the point with a 7-5 win at No. 2.
In singles, the Lopes extended their lead to 2-0 with a straight-set win by Infantino at No 5. GCU and UTRGV split the next two matches, falling at No. 3 and winning at No. 2 with Morel's 6-2, 6-2 win. A win at No. 1 by UTRGV's Dominique Ibarra, the WAC Player of the Year, cut into the Lopes lead at 3-2.
The match was clinched by Lo Pumo at No. 4. In 2018, the sophomore lost the final match in a tiebreaker, ending the Lopes' season in the semifinals. This year, Lo Pumo bounced back and punched GCU's ticket to the finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win.
The Lopes will play the No. 2 New Mexico State-No. 3 Kansas City winner at 7 a.m. Sunday (Phoenix time). With a win, the team would go to the NCAA Division I tournament for the first time in school history.
Team Stats
#1 Doubles Match
#2 Doubles Match
#3 Doubles Match
Order of Finish:
3,1,2
#1 Singles Match
12
Ibarra, Dominique / 0 [UTRGV]
66
31
#2 Singles Match
12
Darzyan, Marine / 0 [UTRGV]
22
66
#3 Singles Match
12
Walker, Michelle / 0 [UTRGV]
66
22
#4 Singles Match
12
Aleksovska, Doris / 0 [UTRGV]
53
76
#5 Singles Match
12
Waduge, Nethmi / 0 [UTRGV]
11
66
#6 Singles Match
1234
Putz, Sandra / 0 [UTRGV]
6410
462UF
Order of Finish:
5,3,2,1,4
Players Mentioned
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