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Oakland University OU-W (4-8)
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Winner Wayne State WSUW (9-5)
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Wayne State WSUW
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Women's Tennis Team vs. Tiffin (03/20/2024)
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WSU tallied its fourth shutout win of the season on Sunday vs. Oakland.

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

Women's Tennis Defeats Oakland University 7-0 to Conclude Two-Match Home Stand

The Warriors blanked their only Division I program on the schedule this spring.

DETROIT -- The No. 11-ranked Wayne State University women's tennis team (9-5 overall) faced its only Division I opponent of the season in Oakland University (4-8 overall) on Sunday inside the Duchene Athletic Facility.  The Warriors shut out the Golden Grizzlies by a 7-0 score to conclude its short two-match home stand in Detroit with a victory.

WSU rebounded for the triumph following a close 4-3 setback to #29-Tiffin on Wednesday.

DOUBLES
The Green and Gold started the day with three wins in doubles, however only two were completed on the court.  Oakland has just five players on its roster and did not have a sixth to play at the third doubles position, so the Warriors won at that spot by default.

Malak Arafat (Alexandria, Egypt) and Martyna Szpakowska (Gdansk, Poland), the No. 35-ranked doubles pairing in Division II, secured a 6-1 win over Emilia Jarvinen and Edie Hammond at the No. 2 spot, while the fourth-ranked tandem of Anais Ruyssen (Nantes, France) and Marta Komar (Inowroclaw, Poland) downed Isabelle Pompa and Emma Hultqvist 6-2 at the first flight.

For Arafat and Szpakowska, it was their 10th win of the spring together.  Ruyssen and Komar were triumphant for the 12th time in 2024.

As previously mentioned, OU had no sixth student-athlete to play with Tara Montreuil, so Shanice Weekes (London, England) and Justine Beaulieu (Montreal, Que.) earned a win in the books by default.

SINGLES
Wayne State swept singles action, with just one match needing a third set.  Weekes once again did not have an opponent, so she was the winner by default at the No. 6 position.

Another match, which pitted Arafat (ranked No. 74 in singles) and Hammond against one another, ended with the Warrior sophomore ahead 4-1 in the first set when Hammond retired from the contest early.

Komar, ranked No. 64 in the nation, posted set wins of 6-3 and 6-4 to defeat Pompa at the No. 3 spot. 

Dea Gorgidze (Tbilisi, Georgia) saw her first on-court action of the day and recorded back-to-back 6-1 set triumphs vs. Montreuil to earn the win at the fifth flight.

Over at the fourth position, Szpakowska dropped Hultqvist 6-1, 6-2.  The WSU sophomore came into the contest as the No. 67-ranked singles player in the country.

The only match that needed a third set was at the first flight, where Ruyssen squared off with Jarvinen.  The OU student-athlete grabbed a 6-4 victory in the opening set, but the No. 16-ranked Warrior nabbed the second set 6-3 and was the first to 10 points in the super tiebreaker (10-7) to finish the sweep for the hosts.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will open GLIAC play on Friday, March 29, at Saginaw Valley State in Midland, Mich.  First serve from the Greater Midland Tennis Center is scheduled for 2 p.m.  WSU will play seven of its final eight matches of the regular season against its fellow conference rivals.

 
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