University of Tennessee Athletics
Women's Tennis Fall Recap
November 03, 2016 | Women's Tennis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee women’s tennis team withdrew from the annual Dick Vitale Clay Court Classic this week, concluding the fall season for the Vols.
Senior Eve Repic and sophomore Sadie Hammond enjoyed a strong performance in doubles during the fall, going 5-3 with two ranked wins. They defeated Wake Forest’s 22nd-ranked duo of Kimmy Guerin and Anna Ulyashchenko at the Furman Fall Classic.
The two followed that event with an invite to the Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, California. Hammond and Repic picked up their second ranked win in the first round of qualifying, beating No. 59 Mickey Hsu and Kristen Poei of Cal State Northridge, 8-3.
The duo represented Tennessee at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships, where they advanced all the way to the quarterfinals before falling to a team from Vanderbilt.
At the Tennessee Fall Invite, Repic played with fellow senior Brittany Lindl and Hammond paired up with redshirt freshman Gabby Schuck. Repic and Lindl claimed the doubles title to the event after going 4-1 on the weekend.
Hammond and Schuck won two matches together, including defeating the No. 5 team in the country in Ohio State’s Miho Kowase and Anna Sanford, 6-4. They are the first Volunteer duo to defeat a top-five team since All-Americans Kata Szekely and Brynn Boren won back-to-back matches against the second-ranked and fifth-ranked teams in the country at the ITA All-American Championships on Oct. 4-5, 2012.
Repic finished with a team-high nine wins in doubles during the fall. During an 11-game stretch from Sept. 23-Oct. 29, she compiled a 9-2 record and also had a four-match winning streak.
In singles, freshman Ariadna Riley boasted the best record on the team, going 6-3 in the fall with a three-match winning streak between the IU Regional and Tennessee Fall Invite. Riley stepped up her game the longer a match went, winning all three of her three-set matches.
The Vols will be back in action to compete in the Michigan Invite on Jan. 14-16 in Ann Arbor. After that, the team will return home the following weekend to begin team play with doubleheaders against Air Force and Middle Tennessee on Saturday and Wake Forest and Chattanooga on Sunday.
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