U-M Women's Tennis Wins Tight Match at Wisconsin
4/15/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Michigan earned the doubles point with a sweep of all three matches. Senior co-captain Brooke Hart (Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson HS) and freshman Jen Duprez (Westhampton, N.Y./Westhampton Beach HS) posted an 8-3 victory over April Gabler and Lara Vojnov at the top spot. Senior co-captain Danielle Lund (Leominster, Mass./Leominster HS) and junior Szandra Fuzesi (Budapest, Hungary/Balassi Balint Gymnazium) clinched the team point with an 8-4 win at No. 2. Junior Alison Sinclair (Lakeland, Fla./George Jenkins HS) and freshman Joanne Musgrove (LaSalle, Ontario/Sandwich HS) polished off the doubles sweep with an 8-5 victory at the No. 3 spot, beating Dena Baritot and Shana McElroy.
Holding a 1-0 advantage heading into the singles matches, the Wolverines split the six singles matches to edge the Badgers by a 4-3 match score. Lund claimed a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Vanessa Rauh at No. 2, Musgrove beat Baritot (6-4, 6-3) at No. 4 and Duprez won a 6-3, 7-5 match over Katie Dougherty at No. 5.
Michigan closes its road schedule tomorrow at Iowa (Sunday, April 16, 10 a.m. CDT), before returning to the Varsity Tennis Center for a pair of Big Ten matches and the conference championship tournament.
Following are match-by-match results:
Singles
No. 1 -- April Gabler (UW) d. Brooke Hart, 2-6, 6-0, 6-4
No. 2 -- Danielle Lund (U-M) d. Vanessa Rauh, 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 -- Shana McElroy (UW) d. Szandra Fuzesi, 6-1, 7-6 (6)
No. 4 -- Joanne Musgrove (U-M) d. Dena Baritot, 6-4, 6-3
No. 5 -- Jen Duprez (U-M) d. Katie Dougherty, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4
No. 6 -- Lara Vojnov (UW) d. Alison Sinclair, 6-3, 7-5
Doubles
No. 1 -- Hart/Duprez (U-M) d. Gabler/Vojnov, 8-3
No. 2 -- Lund/Fuzesi (U-M) d. Mues/Dougherty, 8-4
No. 3 -- Sinclair/Musgrove (U-M) d. Baritot/McElroy, 8-5
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