Women's Tennis Drops Close One at UNLV

Sunday, February 28

Las Vegas, Nev.

10:00 AM

Pepperdine University

UNLV

3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Freshman Arianna Colffer and junior Anamika Bhargava defeated nationally ranked opponents in singles, but the #30 UNLV women's tennis team rallied to defeat visiting Pepperdine, 4-3, on Sunday.

The Rebels swept doubles play for a point, and then Colffer (Corona, Calif./Buena Vista) gave the Waves their first point. After winning the first set against #45-ranked Kristina Nedeltcheva at #1 singles, the UNLV player retired.

After a UNLV victory at #4 singles, sophomore Andrea Oates (Pretoria, South Africa) tied things up again with a straight-set win at #5 singles. And then Bhargava (Collierville, Tenn./Houston HS) finished off 72nd-ranked Jana Albers in straight sets at #2 singles to give the Waves a 3-2 lead and put them one point away from victory.

But UNLV won at both #6 and #3 singles in three sets and avenged an earlier 4-3 loss to Pepperdine that was played on Jan. 30 at UCLA.

The #37 Waves play their final 11 regular-season matches at home, beginning with Michigan on Friday (March 5) at 1:30 p.m.

#30 UNLV 4, #37 Pepperdine 3

Doubles

1) Jana Albers/Kristina Nedeltcheva (UNLV) def. Anamika Bhargava/Marie Zalameda (PEP), 8-2
2) #43 Anna Maskaljun/Alisa Razina (UNLV) def. Andrea Oates/Ali Walters (PEP), 8-5
3) Adrienn Hidvegi/Nives Pavlovic (UNLV) def. Arianna Colffer/Tania Rice (PEP), 8-6

Order of finish: 1, 3, 2

Singles

1) Arianna Colffer (PEP) def. #45 Kristina Nedeltcheva (UNLV), 6-4, 1-0, retired
2) Anamika Bhargava (PEP) def. #72 Jana Albers (UNLV), 6-3, 6-4
3) Nives Pavlovic (UNLV) def. #98 Ali Walters (PEP), 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
4) Adrienn Hidvegi (UNLV) def. Marie Zalameda (PEP), 7-5, 6-2
5) Andrea Oates (PEP) def. Anna Maskaljun (UNLV), 6-4, 6-4
6) Rumyana Terzieva (UNLV) def. Tania Rice (PEP), 7-5, 3-6, 6-0