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Tennis: LWC Women sweep 2 ranked opponents on Saturday

Lima, OH - No. 12-ranked Lindsey Wilson women's tennis beat a pair of ranked foes today at the Westwood Tennis and Fitness Center.

The Blue Raiders (5-2) opened the day with a 4-0 win over No. 19-ranked Indiana Wesleyan and closed the day with a 4-0 victory over No. 20-ranked Northwestern Ohio.

Lindsey Wilson returns to action at 3pmCT on Thursday, February 29, 2024, as the Blue Raiders travel to Freed-Hardeman (TN) for their Mid-South Conference opener in Henderson, Tennessee.


Lindsey Wilson 4 - Indiana Wesleyan 0
The Blue Raiders handed the Wildcats (15-1) their first loss of the season with a 4-0 sweep.

Anastasiia Vorobiova and Anastasiia Ivanchenko won a tiebreaker in a nationally-ranked doubles match to give Lindsey Wilson a 1-0 lead following the doubles play.

Vorobiova and Ivanchenko -- ranked No. 21 in the NAIA in doubles -- knocked off ninth-ranked Sofia Munoz and France Antezana in the top doubles match with a 7-5 tiebreak win for the 1-0 lead.

Mariangeles Mateu and Heyka Rodriguez also claimed a doubles win, beating Ellie Snider and Katie Parr 6-4 on court three. Reshma Challarapu and Darija Mladenovic dropped their tiebreaker on court two, falling to Maria Way and Bre Barger 7-6 (2) to set up the decisive doubles match.

The Blue Raiders doubled their lead in the team match following Ivanchenko's 6-3, 6-3 win over Barger in the fifth-seeded match.

Mladenovic and Mateu followed with upset wins to give Lindsey Wilson the sweep.

Mladenovic pushed the lead to 3-0 with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Way -- who is ranked 48th in the NAIA in singles -- on court four. Mateu closed the match with a 6-2, 7-5 win over 46th-ranked Antezana in the second-seeded match.

The remainder of the matches were halted once the Blue Raiders reached four points.

Lindsey Wilson 4 - Northwestern Ohio 0
The Blue Raiders posted their second straight 4-0 win in the afternoon, beating Northwestern Ohio 4-0.

Vorobiova and Ivanchenko picked up their second doubles win of the day in the first-seeded match against the Racers, beating Jelena Lopicic and Agathe Valliant 6-1.

Mateu and Rodriguez helped the Blue Raiders grab the doubles point on court three with a 6-4 win over Munisa Ashurbekova and Ana Cetina to give Lindsey Wilson a 1-0 lead heading into singles.

Just like in the morning match, Lindsey Wilson needed just three matches to take the team win.

Mateu beat Lopicic 6-3, 6-0 on court two and Rodriguez -- ranked 44th in the NAIA in singles -- beat Neo Mafuyeka 7-6 (4), 6-1 to push the Blue Raider lead to 3-0.

Ivanchenko capped the match with a come-from-behind win over 37th-ranked Valliant in the fifth-seeded match. Ivanchenko dropped the first set 2-6 but rebounded to win the second set 6-1 and then a superset tiebreak 10-5 to secure the team win.


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