Box Score STANFORD, Calif.--THE 75th-ranked University of Hawai'i women's tennis team was shut-out by 17th-ranked Stanford, 7-0 on Wednesday afternoon at the Taube Family Tennis Center. The loss snapped Hawai'i's seven-match win streak as UH starts a power-packed four-match roadtrip in California.
The Cardinal captured the doubles point to start the match. Stanford's No. 2 duo of Valencia Xu and Alexandra Yepifanova defeated
Gitte Heynemans and
Nidhi Surapaneni, 6-3. Stanford's No. 1 team of 7th-ranked Angelica Blake and Connie Ma then knocked off UH's
Ana Vilcek and
Tal Talya Zandberg, 6-2 for the 1-0 lead. UH's No. 3,
Madison Kim and
Satsuki Takamura were leading Stanford's Sara Choy and Nikula Madurawe 4-3 when the match went unfinished.
Stanford's No. 6, Choy nearly shutout UH's Surapaneni to start the singles matches, 6-1, 6-0. The Cardinal's 18th-ranked Yepifanova held off UH's Vilcek by a break in the first set, then pulled away for the two-set victory, 6-4, 6-0. 13th-ranked Ma then cruised past UH's Takamura on the No. 1 court for a 6-2, 6-0 win that clinched the match. Hawai'i's
Madison Kim was the lone Rainbow Wahine to force a third set super-tiebreaker against India Houghton. Kim won the first set 6-0, but fell in the second set, 3-6 and eventually, with the match already decided, falling 10-5 in the third set super-tiebreaker.
Hawai'i will continue their roadtrip heading down the Cali coast to 29th-ranked UC Santa Barbara on Friday, April 1 at 9:00 a.m. Ht.
No. 17 Stanford 7, No. 75 Hawai'i 0
Taube Family Tennis Center (Stanford, Calif.)
Wenesday, March 30, 2022
DOUBLES
1) No. 7 Blake/Ma (STAN) d. Vilcek/Zandberg (HAW) 6-2
2) Xu/Yepifanova (STAN) d. Heynemans/Surapaneni (HAW) 6-3
3) Kim/Takamura (HAW) led Choy/Niluka Madurawe (STAN) 4-3, unfinished
Order of Finish: 2, 1
SINGLES
1) No. 13 Connie Ma (STAN) d.
Satsuki Takamura (HAW) 6-2, 6-0
2) No. 18 Alexandra Yepifanova (STAN) d.
Ana Vilcek (HAW) 6-4, 6-0
3) Angelica Blake (STAN) d.
Tal Talya Zandberg (HAW) 6-2, 6-0
4) India Houghton (STAN) d.
Madison Kim (HAW) 0-6, 6-3, 1-0 (5)
5) No. 87 Valencia Xu (STAN) d.
Gitte Heynemans (HAW) 6-2, 6-1
6) Sara Choy (STAN) d.
Nidhi Surapaneni (HAW) 6-1, 6-0
Order of Finish: 6, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4
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