Jayhawks fall in two matches
Arkansas, Tulsa defeat Kansas over the weekend
Women’s tennis coach is pleased with the performances, but says the team needs to work harder to win matches.
By Alex Dufek (Contact)
Friday, February 8th, 2008
The road wasn’t friendly to the Kansas women’s tennis team last weekend.
The team slipped to 0-2 in dual match play after dropping both matches. The Jayhawks fell to No. 39 Arkansas 5-2 Saturday, and they suffered a tough defeat against No. 43 Tulsa, 4-3, on Sunday.
“For our first match it would have been great to win, but I was pleased with some of the performances. We still have a lot of hard work to do,” coach Amy Hall-Holt said. “We were disappointed with the outcomes of some of the matches, but the girls realize now what we need to do every time we step out on the courts.”
Lauren Hommell, senior
Highlights from the weekend included an impressive victory from the duo of senior Elizaveta Avdeeva and junior Edina Horvath over the 45th-ranked double’s team in the country, Arkansas’ duo of Maryori Franco and Nanar Airapetian. With another win the following day at Tulsa, Avdeeva and Horvath are now 4-1 overall in the spring season.
Freshman Magdalena Torarczyk also looked impressive, emerging victorious in both of her singles matches, improving her overall singles record on the year to a perfect 5-0.
“I’m very proud of Magdalena’s performance. I’m very proud of Edina and Liza playing doubles,” Hall-Holt said.
Torarczyk, a late signee from Poland, said she was enjoying the conveniences playing tennis at the University allowed her.
“Here the opportunities to play tennis are great because I have two great coaches and when I played in Poland I didn’t have my own coach,” Torarczyk said. “We have a good team and a lot of girls who I can play with.”
This Sunday Torarczyk and the rest of the Jayhawks will attempt to rebound from the road losses with matches on their home courts in Lawrence. Kansas faces Illinois at 10 a.m. and St. Louis at 3 p.m. Sunday at First Serve, 5200 Clinton Parkway.
“We have got to be focused on that first match against Illinois, knowing that it’s going to be a tough match, and we gotta stay focused and learn from what we had from this last weekend and build on that,” Hall-Holt said. “The girls are excited about being home for the next two weeks.”
— Edited by Jared Duncan
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