Monday, February 23, 2009
After a sluggish performance on Saturday that resulted in a 7-0 loss to No. 41 DePaul, the Jayhawks returned to the court with more intensity on Sunday versus No. 75 Iowa, but left without a victory.
The Jayhawks are now 4-3 overall and fourth in the Big 12 with a .571 win percentage.
Facing a team that just two days before had been awarded its highest ITA ranking in school history, the Jayhawk doubles teams came out against DePaul lethargic, leading to a quick dual match point (8-0, 8-2, 8-2) that was led by the Blue Demons’ pair of Anna Redecsi/Selma Salkovic at the No. 1 position. The singles round carried the same theme with all six matches completed in two sets.
The young Jayhawk squad battled, but knew it wasn’t their best offering.
“We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we played a little stale today,” coach Amy Hall-Holt said. “We started out slow, and we kept fighting and fighting in the second sets, but it was too late. We still have a lot of work to do.”
Not everything that day was disheartening. Senior Edina Horvath had one of her strongest outings on Saturday against DePaul’s No. 1 player, Dunjo Antunovic.
Coach Hall-Holt was very pleased.
“We had Edina playing at the No. 1 position today,” Hall-Holt said. “She went 7-6 (5), 7-5 (2) with top-ranked player; it could have gone either way. She played one of the best matches I’ve ever seen her play. I was very proud of Edina and her performance.”
Heading into the weekend, the Jayhawks were 4-1 and had just been removed from the ITA rankings. Sunday morning they were 4-2 and wanted to prove something against ranked Iowa.
“We are very, very compatible with Iowa, and I think that the girls now realize that we need to step up,” Hall-Holt said after Saturday’s match. “Four and one and we dropped out of the rankings. It’s pretty disappointing to the girls that we did fall out, and I think they have a lot to prove tomorrow.”
Sunday’s dual match did not go as expected.
All three doubles matches versus Iowa were close, but the early point went to the Hawkeyes. Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, playing at the No. 1 position, were the only Kansas pair to win, 8-6, in the doubles round. The freshman doubles combo of Erin Wilbert and Alessandra Dzuba nearly pulled out a victory, but were undone 9-8 (7-2).
The Jayhawks’ freshmen were the only ones to show up in singles action as Wilbert, 7-5, 7-5, and Kate Morozova, 6-4, 3-6, (10-4), defeated Iowa’s Alexis Dorr and Ally Majercik, respectively, but it was too late. The Hawkeyes had already chosen four singles victories; the match ended with a 5-2 Iowa triumph.
The Jayhawks haven’t defeated a ranked opponent this season.
— — Edited by Jesse Trimble
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