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Michigan Tech MTU (9-7)
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Martyna Szpakowska and Shanice Weekes vs. Tiffin (04-06-2023)
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Shanice Weekes (left) and Martyna Szpakowska (right) had a role in three of the four WSU points vs. MTU, including a doubles win and each winning in singles action.

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Matthew Jurek, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Women's Tennis Moves on to GLIAC Championship Match

The Warriors notched a 4-0 shutout of #44-Michigan Tech on Saturday.

MIDLAND, Mich. -- The eighth-ranked Wayne State University women's tennis team (20-3 overall) secured a 4-0 victory over No. 44-ranked Michigan Tech (9-7 overall) on Saturday afternoon at the Greater Midland Tennis Center to advance to Sunday's GLIAC Championship match.

The Warriors were the second-seeded team in the tournament, while the Huskies were the third-ranked squad.

DOUBLES
WSU (playing its first match of the tournament after a Friday bye) and MTU (on the second of a back-to-back) played a competitive round of doubles, with the Green and Gold jumping out to the early advantage after winning two of the three matches.

Winning at the top flight were the No. 20-ranked doubles team of Anais Ruyssen (Nantes, France) and Marta Komar (Inowroclaw, Poland), who topped the No. 31-ranked team of Dominika Bobik and Grace Eland by a 6-4 score.

Martyna Szpakowska (Gdansk, Poland) and Shanice Weekes (London, England) posted a 6-2 triumph against Ewa Podulka and Neva Manas at the No. 3 spot.

Michigan Tech nabbed its lone victory of the match with their 6-2 win at the second position, as Malak Arafat (Alexandria, Egypt) and Dea Gorgidze (Tbilisi, Georgia) fell to Lauren Opalewski and Emily Cojocaru.

SINGLES
The Warriors claimed their ticket to the final round by virtue of their three singles wins, enough to reach four points and clinch the win.  By shutting out the Huskies, Wayne State has now won seven matches in a row, with the last five all via the shutout.

Arafat recovered from her doubles defeat to handle Podulka at the No. 3 spot.  She defeated her MTU opponent by scores of 6-3 and 6-2 to beat Podulka for a second time this season and win her ninth consecutive singles match.

Szpakowska and Weekes were also winners at the fifth and sixth flights, respectively.  Szpakowska and Cojocaru tangled for the affair at the No. 5 spot, with the Warrior rookie notching a 6-3 triumph in the opening set, before shutting out Cojocaru, 6-0, in the second set.

Weekes, meanwhile, won a close 7-5 contest over Opalewski in the first set.  She made easier work of her opponent in the final set, winning 6-1.

The two first-year players improved their respective winning streaks to 20 and 12, and aided their team in advancing to the title match.

Playing but not finishing their matches were Ruyssen (No. 1 spot), Komar (No. 2 spot) and Gorgidze (No. 4 spot) due to the clinch-style format.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will meet with top-seeded and No. 17-ranked Grand Valley State for the GLIAC Tournament title on Sunday at 2 p.m.  The Warriors are looking for back-to-back championships after winning a season ago.  They also are attempting for their fourth league title in the last five GLIAC Tournaments, following 2022, 2019, and 2018 (not including 2020, which was not held due to COVID-19).

 
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