Completed Event: Women's Tennis versus Air Force on March 27, 2026 , Loss , 2, to, 4
W Tennis
vs Air Force
L 2-4
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Saturday, February 8
Irvine, Calif.
12 p.m.
Grand Canyon
at
UC Irvine
Lopes face UC Irvine, Nevada
2/7/2020 12:18:00 PM | Women's Tennis
2-match road trip takes Lopes to California
 |
 |
 |
|
| Grand Canyon Lopes (1-3) |
vs | UC Irvine Anteaters (1-1) |
Nevada Wolfpack (3-2) |
| Saturday, Feb. 8 12 p.m. |
Sunday, Feb. 9 11 a.m. |
||
The Grand Canyon women's tennis team will wrap up a four-match road trip this weekend with matches at UC Irvine and neutral-site meeting with Nevada at Irvine.
The Lopes are coming off a 1-1 week in Montana, where they lost to Montana but ended the trip on a high note with a 5-2 win over Montana State. The Lopes took the doubles point at the top two positions and saw straight-set singles wins from freshman Natasha Puehse, senior Celina Buhr and sophomore Jana Weiss. GCU junior Martina Lo Pumo also went 2-0 on the weekend with a three-set win at No. 6.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW
- WAC DOUBLES HONOR: For the first time this season, the doubles duo of Puehse and Weiss won WAC Doubles Players of the Week after two weekend victories at No. 2. They won 6-2 over Montana's Bianca Bostrom and Maria Goheen and won 6-1 against Montana State's Mirte Van Baelen and J.J. Chen. GCU captured the doubles point en route to its first win of the season.
- LO PUMO'S PERFECT WEEKEND: Along with the doubles success, the Lopes also saw singles success from Lo Pumo at No. 6. The junior from Italy went 2-0, winning in straight sets against Montana and outlasting Montana State's Daphne Haverkamp 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-4) in three sets. It was the first two singles wins of the season for Lo Pumo.
- MOUNTAIN WEST HEAVY: After the Lopes face UC Irvine on Saturday, three straight Mountain West Conference teams are on the schedule. GCU will face Nevada on the road and San Jose State and Colorado State at home to pit GCU against Mountain West teams in three straight matches for the first time since the team joined Division I in 2013-14.
SCOUTING
UC Irvine has started the season with a 1-1 record. The Anteaters started the season with a 8-1 win over Westmont before falling 6-1 in Hawaii in Big West Conference play. UC Irvine will play Nevada on Friday before facing GCU.The Anteaters are coming off a 14-12 season that included a 9-6 record on the road, along with five matches that were canceled. This season, UC Irvine returns 11 players from last year's squad, including seniors Stephanie Nguyen, Jacqueline Tsodikova and Arianna Tillbury. Eleven of the12 players are from California with Hawaii product Alyssia Fossorier being the exception.
GCU and UC Irvine met three straight times from 2016 to 2018 with the Lopes taking two tightly contested 4-3 decisions on the road.
Nevada continues its season-opening California road trip, dating back to mid-January. The match against GCU will be its eighth straight match in California after matches against UC Irvine and at Cal State Fullerton.
Last season, Nevada went 10-11 with a 7-7 road record and a loss to Colorado State in the Mountain West Conference tournament. Freshman Liza Mintusova leads the team with three singles wins while the Wolfpack has struggled in doubles, winning the point in two of its first five matches.
GCU and Nevada split the six previous meetings with the Wolfpack winning the last two matches in Phoenix by 4-3 scores. The Lopes' last win came in 2014, a 5-1 win on the road.
LAST TIME OUT
- The Lopes lost 5-2 at Montana and defeated Montana State 5-2 in a neutral-site match.
- Puehse and Weiss earned WAC Doubles Players of the Week honors.
- Lo Pumo and Puehse went 2-0 in singles
WHAT'S NEXT
- Next week, the Lopes will be back at the GCU Tennis Facility for matches against San Jose State and Colorado State on Feb. 15 and 16, respectively.
Players Mentioned
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
#MicdUp with Dané Vorster of GCU Women's #Tennis
Thursday, April 23
Women's Wins the WAC Title
Monday, April 21