Women's Tennis Falls to No. 16 Notre Dame

NOTRE DAME, Ind. The No. 61 DePaul women’s tennis team suffered a 7-0 BIG EAST Conference loss to No. 16 Notre Dame on Friday.  Junior Dunja Antunovic and sophomore Kirsten Gambrell gave the Blue Demons a doubles victory, but the Irish took the doubles point and six singles matches at the Eck Tennis Center.

The No. 2 doubles match saw Antunovic and Gambrell post an 8-3 victory over Cosmina Ciobanu and Colleen Rielley.  With the win, the Blue Demon duo improves to 12-1 in doubles play with a perfect 10-0 record in the No. 2 match.

Notre Dame (17-8, 3-0 BIG EAST) bounced back to take the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles matches.  Brook Buck and Kelcy Tefft topped Beatrix Csordas and Selma Salkovic, 8-4, in the top match, while Kali Krisik and Kristen Rafael defeated Gergana Ganeva and Anja Mihaldinec, 8-2.

DePaul suffered losses in all six singles matches.  Csordas came closest to victory when she took Krisik to three sets in the No. 5 match.  The Blue Demon senior won the first set, 6-1, before Krisik came back with a 6-3 win in the second frame and a 10-5 victory in the super tiebreaker.

The Blue Demons (16-5, 5-1 BIG EAST) stay in Notre Dame, Indiana on Saturday for a 9 a.m. neutral-court dual with BIG EAST rival Marquette.

(16) Notre Dame 7, (61) DePaul 0

Doubles
No. 1 Buck/Tefft (Notre Dame) def. Csordas/Salkovic (DePaul) 8-4
No. 2 Antunovic/Gambrell (DePaul) def. Ciobanu/Rielley (DePaul) 8-3
No. 3 Krisik/Rafael (Notre Dame) def. Ganeva/Mihaldinec (DePaul) 8-2

Singles
No. 1 Kelcy Tefft (Notre Dame) def. Dunja Antunovic (DePaul) 6-2, 6-3
No. 2 Brook Buck (Notre Dame) def. Gergana Ganeva (DePaul) 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 Cosmina Ciobanu (Notre Dame) def. Selma Salkovic (DePaul) 6-3, 6-0
No. 4 Colleen Rielley (Notre Dame) def. Katarina Milinkovic (DePaul) 6-3, 6-3
No. 5 Kali Krisik (Notre Dame) def. Beatrix Csordas (DePaul) 1-6, 6-3, 10-5
No. 6 Katie Potts (Notre Dame) def. Kirsten Gambrell (DePaul) 6-2, 6-1

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1) Singles (3,6,1,2,4,5)

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