Wolfpack Wins Six of Six Matches on Day One of ITA Carolinas Regional

Thursday, October 20

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Wolfpack Wins Six of Six Matches on Day One of ITA Carolinas Regional

10/20/2016 8:27:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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Qualifying Singles Results | Main Draw Singles Results | First Round Doubles Results

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.- The NC State women's tennis team had a strong start to the ITA Carolinas Regional Tournament in Chapel Hill on Thursday, going undefeated in 6 matches. The tournament will run five days, giving players the chance to qualify for the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships in November.

Day one of competition featured Tayla Stenta in singles qualifying play, and three Wolfpack duos competing in the 1st and 2nd round of doubles.

Singles Action
Tayla Stenta began singles play as top seed in qualifying. In round one, Stenta took on Michelle Castro of ECU, winning 6-4, 7-6(5). Her win moved her to the final qualifying round, where she went head-to-head with Alexa Abele of Davidson to earn a place in the main draw singles. Stenta beat Abele 7-6(3), 6-1 to advance to a main draw spot.

Doubles Action
Amanda Rebol and Anna Rogers kicked off doubles plays for the Wolfpack, playing Isabel Boada and Georgina Segarra (Campbell) in the first round. Rebol/Rogers won the match, 8-6, and moved into the second round. From there, the duo played Lisa Hofbauer and Celia Ruiz (ECU). In a back and forth contest Rogers/Rebol came from behind to beat Hofbauer/Ruiz, 8-6.

No. 50 and fourth seeded Bianca Moldovan and Claudia Wiktorin had a bye in the first round, and took on Caitlin Cridland and Lauren Proctor (Winthrop) in the second round. The Wolfpack tandem defeated Winthrop 8-5.

The number one seeded doubles pair, 24th ranked Martina Frantova and Tayla Stenta had a bye in the 1st round and then took on Clemson's Ayan Broomfield and Constanza Gorches in the round of 32. Frantova/Stenta took a break at 4-3, subsequently held for 5-3 and had chances for 6-3. However Clemson fought back, and despite the Pack's top duo serving for the match at 7-6, the match went to a tiebreaker. The Wolfpack duo was down 0-6 in the tiebreaker, but managed to claw back to 6-6, saving 6 consecutive match points in the process. They then proceeded to save 2 more match points at 6-7 and 7-8 respectively before Frantova/Stenta eventually won the match, 8-7(10-8).

Simon Says
"I thought we did exactly what we came to do today. I knew doubles wouldn't be easy as I mentioned yesterday and we had to fight hard and show tremendous character to find a way through" said Coach Earnshaw. "The main thing for us is to compete as hard as possible and maintain discipline to always give ourselves the best chance. We work on it on a daily basis and saw the benefits today. For Martina and Tayla to comeback from 6-0 down in the breaker after having led the whole set, and then go on to save 2 more match points before winning says a lot. I'm proud of our effort today and the progress we are making but this is just day one. We have a lot more to accomplish and I'm hopeful we can continue to build on this start tomorrow morning in singles."

Friday Preview
Seven Wolfpackers will compete in the main draw singles tomorrow, five of whom are set to begin play at 9:00 a.m. Claudia Wiktorin will take on the 15th seed, Lauren Proctor (Winthrop). Adriana Reami is set to take on No. 40 Chalena Scholl, who will enter competition as the sixth seed. Martina Frantova will play her first singles match of the tournamenttomorrow as the number four seed against Elon's Koniaev. Following singles, all three NC State doubles teams will continue doubles play.

Friday Match Times
Claudia Wiktorin v. Lauren Proctor (Winthrop) at 9:00 a.m.
Bianca Moldovan v. Alexandra Andrivot (Campbell) at 9:00 a.m.
No. 29 Martina Frantova v. Alex Koniaev (Elon) at 9:00 a.m.
Tayla Stenta v. Madara Straume (UNCW) at 9:00 a.m.
Adriana Reami v. No. 40 Chalena Scholl (Duke) at 9:00 a.m.
Amanda Rebol v. Megan Scholvinck (Davidson) at 10:15 a.m.
Anna Rogers v. Celia Ruiz (ECU) at 10:30 a.m.
No. 50 Moldovan/Wiktorin v. Makarova/Smaller (Duke) at 11:30 a.m.
No. 24 Frantova/Stenta v. Janowicz/Paraja (Elon) at 12:00 p.m.
Rebol/Rogers v. Barisano/Straume (UNCW) at 1:00 p.m.

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