March 14, 2005
SAN DIEGO -
SDSU Women's Tennis Weekly Release
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SDSU Looks to Break Recent Two-Match Slide Against 53rd-Ranked Tulsa
* The 25th-ranked San Diego State women's tennis team continues its longest homestand of the season with a single match versus No. 53 Tulsa on Tuesday. The Aztecs come into the match having lost two straight and own a record of 7-5. The Golden Hurricane, meanwhile, visits San Diego with a 7-9 record, having just recently lost to Mountain West Conference member New Mexico.
After the Tulsa match, SDSU will have the week off until it faces Ohio State, March 22, in the last match of the current seven-match homestand.
Weekly Wrap Up
* After winning four consecutive matches and being ranked No. 25 in the country, the Aztecs dropped each of its two contests last week.
The non-conference tilt with No. 33 Florida State went down to the wire and was decided by the last match of the afternoon.
Florida State claimed the doubles point after sweeping all three matches by a score of 8-6.
The Seminoles took a 2-0 lead after their win at No. 1 singles, but Dita Hauerlandova won in straight sets at No. 2 to put the Aztecs on the board.
SDSU trailed in the match, 3-1, when Eliska Krausova fell at three, but once again, the bottom of the Aztec lineup pulled through and notched victories at Nos. 5 and 6 to tie the match at three apiece.
The deciding match was at No. 3 between SDSU's Andrea Hermansen and FSU's Lindsey Deason. The two went back and forth with Deason taking the first set, 6-0, and Hermansen fighting back tallying a 7-6 win. In the end, Deason would come out on top, wining the third set, 7-6, and giving the Seminoles the upset victory.
#33 Florida State 4, #25 San Diego State 3
Doubles
1. Moldovan-Deason (FSU) def. Erichsen-Krausova (SDSU), 8-6
2. Clarke-Tantee (FSU) def. Hauerlandova-Vidov (SDSU), 8-6
3. Foley-Marobela (FSU) def. Nielsen-Spaeth (SDSU), 8-6
Singles
1. Mihaela Moldovan (FSU) def. Alesya Vidov (SDSU), 6-1, 6-0
2. Dita Hauerlandova (SDSU) def. Roxanne Clarke (FSU), 6-3, 6-3
3. Lindsay Deason (FSU) def. Andrea Hermansen (SDSU), 6-0, 6-7, 7-6(8-6)
4. Miranda Foley (FSU) def. Eliska Krausova (SDSU), 6-4, 6-4
5. Indra Erichsen (SDSU) def. Tapiwa Marobela (FSU), 6-4, 7-6
6. Nina Spaeth (SDSU) def. Amberly Tantee (FSU), 6-3, 6-3
The Rice match also had a familiar ring to it when the Owls won the doubles point.
In singles, Hauerlandova continued her high level of play and defeated Kimberley Patenaude at No. 2, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0. Nina Spaeth added a point when she won her seventh straight singles match at No. 6, 6-1, 6-3. But that would be all the scoring the Aztecs would receive as they lost at the other four positions to give Rice a 5-2 win.
#41 Rice 5, #25 San Diego State 2
Doubles
1. Hauerlandova-Vidov (SDSU) def. Patenaude-DiSesa (Rice), 8-6
2. Chong-Karas (Rice) def. Erichsen-Krausova (SDSU), 8-6
3. Egic-Dao (Rice) def. Spaeth-Nielsen (SDSU), 8-6
Singles
1. Blair DiSesa (Rice) def. Alesya Vidov (SDSU), 6-0, 6-4
2. Dita Hauerlandova (SDSU) def. Kimberley Patenaude (Rice), 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
3. Tracie Chong (Rice) def. Andrea Hermansen (SDSU), 6-2, 6-0
4. Dominique Karas (Rice) def. Eliska Krausova (SDSU), 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
5. Christine Dao (Rice) def. Indra Erichsen (SDSU), 6-3, 7-6
6. Nina Spaeth (SDSU) def. Medeja Egic (Rice), 6-1, 6-3
Hauerlandova Named MWC Player of the Week
* Junior Dita Hauerlandova was named MWC women's tennis player of the week as announced by the conference on March 9. The honor is the first of her career.
Hauerlandova, from Prague, Czech Republic, had an outstanding week in helping the Aztecs win all three matches two weeks ago, including upsets of No. 28 Michigan and No. 8 Washington. The junior won five of her six matches, all at number two, including all three doubles matches with sophomore Alesya Vidov. Against Michigan, Hauerlandova notched a 6-4, 6-1, straight sets win over Kara Delicata and defeated Mugette Ahn of Washington, 3-6, 6-3, 10-0.
SDSU In The Polls
* After three straight wins and a couple of upsets two weeks ago, the Aztecs made the leap from No. 68 nationally to the 25th-best team in America as announced in last week's ITA poll.
The 43-place jump is the largest since 2002 when it leaped 14 spots, from No. 53 to No. 39, after a victory over No. 41 Kansas State.
SDSU's No. 25 ranking is its highest since being ranked 23rd in the country during the 2003 MWC Championships. In that tournament, the Aztecs beat their three opponents by a combined score of 12-2, took the conference crown and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Super Spaeth
* Freshman Nina Spaeth is making a real case for MWC freshman of the year honors. Consider this: she currently owns a seven-match winning streak with a record of 5-1 at No. 5 and a 4-0 record at No. 6., she is 9-1 this spring and 11-2 for the 2004-05 season, and with Sisse Nielsen as her doubles partner, the duo has gone on to post a 6-4 spring record at No. 3.
Scouting Tulsa
l Tulsa is led by head coach Paige McMurray. A former four-year SDSU letterwinner (1989-93), McMurray (formerly Hammond) guides a young Tulsa team that has only one senior, three juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen on the squad.
The Golden Hurricane have endured a losing streak of four back in February, but have bounced back by splittling its last four contests.