TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 2, 2016) – On the final day of the 2016 Bedford Cup, the FIU women's tennis team claimed a total of four flight championships (two singles and two doubles) on Sunday afternoon at the USF Varsity Tennis Courts.
Freshman
Ulyana Grib and junior
Mina Markovic each won their flights with Grib defeating USF's Brook Lashway, 6-0, 6-1, and Markovic downing North Florida's Quetzali Vazquez, 6-4, 6-4. Two other Panthers made it to their flight's championship contest, falling in the title match. Sophomore
Andrea Lazaro fell to Miami's Estela Perez-Somarriba, 6-4, 6-2, and sophomore
Maryna Veksler dropped a 6-1, 6-2 decision to UM's Ana Madcur.
In doubles action, FIU claimed two flight crowns with senior
Nina Nagode and Lazaro topping USF's Vera Bessonova and Olga Martinez, 8-5, while Grib and Veksler took an 6-4 win over sophomore
Gabriela Ferreira and Markovic in an all-Panther final.
Overall the Panthers earned 12 singles victories and eight doubles wins.
Next up for the Panthers are the 2016 ITA Southeast Regionals in Gainesville, Florida. The tournament will begin on Thursday, Oct. 20, and run through Monday, Oct. 24.
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Ocean Bank Field at FIU Stadium.
About FIU:
Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offer more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $8.9 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
