WILMINGTON, N.C. – Longwood women’s tennis closed its fall season with a solid finish at the UNCW Seahawk Classic. The Lancers combined for 18 wins between singles and doubles action in the three-day event.
 
Phoebe Mitchell led the charge in singles with a trio of singles wins, including a strong effort on Sunday afternoon to close out the weekend.
 
NOTABLE MOMENTS:
 
Up and down the lineup, the Lancers earned a mix of good singles and doubles wins.
 
Mitchell went 3-0 in singles, with all three wins coming in three-set thrillers. She added a doubles win to boot.
 
Sophia Marchetta rattled off a pair of doubles wins as well to help lead Longwood after the team started slow on doubles on Friday. She teamed up with Wiktoria Czerny for the team’s lone doubles win on Friday, and she added a second doubles win on Saturday with Feline van Eijkelenburg. Marchetta also added a singles win on Saturday as well.
 
Orianna Izarra, van Eijkelenburg, Karina Rizvanova, Alexis Broderick, and Czerny earned singles wins of their own.
 
WHAT THEY SAID:
 
“Overall this weekend was a strong showing for our women’s team as we continue to build the habits and the mentality that we need to progress as a team,” said Longwood Director of Tennis Carlos Lora. “Although we mentally slipped towards the end of our last doubles matches on Friday, we were able to bounce back on Saturday and Sunday to come up with some hard fought wins in both doubles and singles. As we look to shifting our focus now towards our spring season, there is an exciting kind of energy building between both teams around what we are capable of accomplishing in the spring.”
 
FULL RESULTS:
 
Friday
Doubles
CU Ossa/Ranaivo over LWU Rizvanova/Mitchell 7-5
CU Karlovcan/Chitambar over LWU Hederich/Czerny 7-6
CU Ristola/Prospalova over LWU Broderick/Gupta 7-5
DU Porges/Kollock over LWU Izarra/Rizvanova 6-2
LWU Marchetta/Czerny over DU Heiderscheit/Calderwood 7-5
DU Langford/Hooper over LWU Mitchell/Hederich 6-3
DU Patterson/Roti over LWU van Eikelenburg/Broderick 7-6 (11-9)
 
Singles
UNCW Arli over LWU van Eijkelenburg 6-2, 6-2
LWU Izarra over UNCW Eberwein 7-5, 6-2
LWU Mitchell over UNCW Gomez 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-8)
UNCW Glickstein over LWU Marchetta 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (10-7)
LWU Rizvanova over UNCW Hubbard 6-4, 6-1
UNCW Albayrak over LWU Czerny 6-0, 6-4
UNCW Joksimovic over LWU Hederich 6-2, 6-1
LWU Broderick over UNCW Parker Shumate 6-4, 7-5
DU Rodehorst over LWU Mahika Gupta 3-6, 6-0, 1-0 (10-8)
 
Saturday
Doubles
LWU Rizvanova/Mitchell over HU Kozaki/Sokolova 6-1
LWU Marchetta/van Eijkelenburg over HU Mitic/Okuwaki 6-2
LWU Hederich/Czerny over DU Rodehorst/Patterson 6-4
App St Dada-Mascoll/Murphy over LWU Rizvanova/Mitchell 6-1
App St Pate/Manyubi over LWU Marchetta/van Eijkelenburg 6-0
LWU Hederich/Czerny over App St Ryan-Bovey/Collins 6-2
 
Singles
DU Heiderscheit over LWU van Eijkelenburg 6-1, 6-3
LWU Mitchell over DU Kollock 0-6, 7-6 (7-3), 1-0 (10-5)
LWU Marchetta over DU Langford 7-6 (7-2), 3-6 (7-1), 1-0 (10-4)
LWU Rizvanova over DU Hooper 6-0, 6-3
LWU Czerny over DU Calderwood 6-3, 6-4
LWU Broderick over DU Patterson 6-3, 5-7, 1-0 (10-4)
DU Rodehorst over LWU Hederich 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 1-0 (10-5)
DU Roti over LWU Gupta 6-3, 6-2
LWU van Eijkelenburg over UNCW Albaryak 6-2, 6-3
 
Sunday
Singles
LWU van Eijkelenburg over CU Ristola 6-4, 6-4
LWU Mitchell over CU Hart 6-3, 4-6, 10-7
CU Ranaivo over LWU Marchetta 4-6, 4-6
CU Ossa over LWU Rizvanova 6-2, 2-6, 10-5
CU Karlovcan over LWU Broderick 6-4, 6-1
CU Chitamber over LWU Hederich 6-4, 6-0
LWU Czerny over App St Collins 0-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4)
 
UP NEXT:
 
The Lancers will return to action again in the spring.
 
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