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NCAA Individual Championships
Fahey and Minor Advance in NCAA Doubles Tourney
5/21/2019 10:23:00 PM | Women's Tennis
» Kate Fahey and Brienne Minor picked up a straight-sets win to advance in the NCAA Doubles Championship.
» Minor saw her singles career come to an end with a loss in the second round. She finished her career with 110 singles wins.
» Chiara Lommer bowed out in the second round of the singles tournament, finishing her junior season with a 24-13 record.
Site: Orlando, Fla. (USTA National Campus)
Event: NCAA Singles Championship (Second Round) and Doubles Championship (First Round)
Result: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Wednesday, May 22 -- at NCAA Doubles Championships (Orlando, Fla.), TBA
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Seniors Kate Fahey and Brienne Minor teamed up for a straight-sets win in the first round of the NCAA Doubles Championship as the University of Michigan women's tennis team completes the second day of action at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships on Tuesday (May 21) at the USTA National Campus.
Fahey and Minor grabbed a 6-1, 6-2 win over No. 17-ranked Meghan Kelley and Sofia Munera, 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the round of 16. The Wolverine duo went up a break at 2-1 and that was all the space they needed to take a 6-1 win in the first set.
The Wolverines got to work early in the second set, grabbing a 2-0 lead. Virginia answered right back with a break of serve and then a hold of its own to even the match at 2-2.
Fahey held her next time back at the service line, with another Michigan break to follow for a 4-2 lead. With the momentum in their favor, Michigan won the final two games to take a 6-2 lead. U-M broke the Cavaliers in the final game, winning an epic deuce point to send Michigan to the second round. Â
Junior Chiara Lommer dropped a 6-4, 6-1 match to No. 61-ranked Petra Melounova of Hawaii in the first Michigan singles match of the day.
Lommer took the early lead, breaking and then holding serve for a 2-0 advantage. Melounova won five of the next six games for a 5-3 before Lommer answered with two straight games to get back on serve. The Wolverine junior fell behind love-40 on her serve but battled back to deuce. Melounova came through with a forehand winner on the deuce point to take the first set.
Lommer had an opportunity to break Melounova at the start of the second but her forehand clipped the net on the deuce point and went wide. Melounova took control from there, breaking Lommer in the next game for the early lead en route to a 6-1 win.
Lommer ends her junior season with a 24-13 singles record after participating in the NCAA Singles Championship for the first time in her career.
Minor saw her singles career at Michigan come to an end after a 6-3, 7-6 (11) loss to No. 43 Asuka Kawai of Illinois.
Minor fell behind early in the first set, staring down a 3-0 deficit before winning two straight games. Minor double-faulted on the deuce point as Kawai kept the 4-2 advantage and eventually grabbed a 6-3 first-set win.
Minor once again fell behind early in the second set, 3-0. Minor was able to mount a comeback, tying the set at 4 when Kawai double-faulted on the deuce point. Both players exchanged breaks to keep the set at 5 before each holding serve to send the set to a breaker.
Minor grabbed a 6-3 lead in the tiebreaker but Kawai was able to fight off three match points and eventually take a 7-6 lead. Minor fought off four match points before getting another match point of her own at 11-10. Kawai won three straight points to win the tiebreaker, 13-11, and win the match.
The 2017 NCAA singles champion, Minor ends her singles career with a 110-30 overall record.
NCAA Singles Championship Second Round
No. 43 Asuka Kawai (Illinois) d. No. 50 Brienne Minor (U-M), 6-3, 7-6 (11)
No. 61 Petra Melounova (Hawaii) d. No. 47 Chiara Lommer (U-M), 6-4, 6-1
NCAA Doubles Championship First Round
No. 37 Kate Fahey/Brienne Minor (U-M) d. No. 17 Meghan Kelley/Sofia Munera (Virginia), 6-1, 6-2
