Jan. 16, 2010
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern wrapped up the second full day of play at the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday, gaining plenty of early-season experience against No. 22 Vanderbilt and No. 45 DePaul. NU freshman Brittany Wowchuk opened the day with a doubles win and easily won her singles match against Vandy's Erica Robertson, 6-1, 6-2.
Saturday's play began with round-robin doubles competition during which Northwestern notched a pair of wins over tandems representing DePaul. Wowchuk and fellow freshman Kate Turvy dispatched of Gia McKnight and Kirsten Gambrell by a score of 8-4. Also scoring a win was the duo of Lauren Lui and Elena Chernyakova, who bested DePaul's ninth-ranked doubles team of Anna Redecsi and Selma Salkovic 8-6.
Following a break, the tournament transitioned to singles play where Wowchuk was the first off the courts for NU following a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Vanderbilt's Erica Robertson.
On court three, Lui was locked in a tight match with Vanderbilt's Keilly Ulery from the get-go, with Ulery taking a 7-5 decision in the first set. Ulery continued her strong play in the second, going up 5-0 before Lui fought to come all the way back and tie the set at five-all. Lui pushed the set to a tiebreaker where the action remained a dead heat, but Lui persevered to win 13-11 in dramatic fashion. Down a break in the third, she continued to rally until Ulery was finally able to win the third set 6-4.
Like Wowchuk, the 85th-ranked Turvy recorded her second singles win in as many days when she knocked off DePaul's Selma Salkovic in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4. Turvy trailed 4-3 in the second before winning the last three games to take the match.
Meanwhile, 12th-ranked Maria Mosolova completed her stay at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Palm Springs, Calif., with a 6-3, 6-4 loss to fifth-ranked Yasmin Schnack of UCLA.
The final day of the Wildcat Invitational begins at 9 a.m. Sunday in NU's Combe Tennis Center. Six singles matches between Northwestern and Vanderbilt will be followed by a final six singles matches involving all three competing teams.
Complete results for NU players are listed below. For results of matches between Vanderbilt and DePaul, please click here.
Doubles
Wowchuk/Turvy (NU) def. McKnight/Gambrell (DEP), 8-4
Chernyakova/Lui (NU) def. Redecsi/Salkovic (DEP), 8-6
Wu/Preeg (VAN) def. Lui/Abu Mushrefova (NU), 8-3
Wu/Preeg (VAN) def. Wowchuk/Chernyakova (NU), 8-3
Newman/Robertson (VAN) def. Lui/Abu Mushrefova (NU), 9-7
Dillon/Ulery (VAN) def. Turvy/Lee (NU), 8-5
Singles
Keilly Ulery (VAN) def. Lauren Lui (NU), 7-5, 6-7 (11), 6-4
Rachael Dillon (VAN) def Stacey Lee (NU) 7-6 (6), 6-0
Brittany Wowchuk (NU) def. Erica Robertson (VAN), 6-1, 6-2
Kate Turvy (NU) def. Selma Salkovic (DEP), 6-1, 6-4
Elena Chernyakova (NU) def. Sandra Zmak (DEP), 7-5, 6-2
Kirsten Gambrell (DEP) def. Linda Abu Mushrefova (NU), 6-0, 6-2