NEW YORK, N.Y. (Feb. 4, 2017) – The FIU women's tennis team (4-1) recorded its second-straight road victory with a 4-3 win over Columbia (1-4) on Saturday afternoon from the Dick Savitt Tennis Center in New York.
FIU put the match away early earning the doubles point and winning three-straight singles contests for a 4-0 lead. With doubles wins by
Andrea Lazaro and
Nina Nagode (6-3 over Adi Milstein and Alexandra Solovyev), and
Mina Markovic and
Gabriela Ferreira (6-2 over Ali Pollack and Renee Ren), the Panthers took a 1-0 lead to begin the match.
Maryna Veksler earned her team-leading 11
th win of the season with 6-1, 6-3 result versus Solovyev, making the score 2-0. Lazaro (ranked No. 54 by the ITA) downed Rima Asatrian, 6-2, 6-3, extending the Panthers' lead to 3-0. The victory improved the Barcelona, Spain, native's career record in dual matches to 21-1. Grib defeated Ren, 6-2, 6-2, to clinch the match for FIU and give the Panthers their fourth win of the season.
Playing the match out, Columbia got on the board, winning three tie breaks. Nagode fell to Andrea Kevakian, 7-6, 3-6, 10-2, Markovic fell to Pollack, 7-6, 1-6, 10-8, and
Nerma Caluk lost to Milstein, 6-7, 6-3, 11-9.
FIU will return to action on Saturday, Feb. 18, when the Panthers host Conference USA foe Middle Tennessee. First serve from the FIU Tennis Courts is 1:00 p.m.
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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/.
