#5 Women's Tennis Smothers #19 UCLA

Saturday, February 5

Malibu, Calif.

12:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

UCLA

Photo by: Jeff Golden

2/5/2022 4:03:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The fifth-ranked Pepperdine women's tennis team defeated the 19^th-ranked UCLA Bruins 5-2 on Saturday afternoon in a rematch of last season's national quarterfinal showdown.

Junior Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden) earned the clinch point for Pepperdine on court two, going 7-6(2), 6-2.

SINGLES
PEPP 4, UCLA 2

1. 6-2, 6-3 | PEPP
2. 7-6(2), 6-2 | PEPP
3. 4-6, 1-6 | UCLA
4. 6-3, 6-2 | PEPP
5. 7-6, 6-6 (2-6)
6. 6-2, 6-0 | PEPP

Thank you, Lisa. Waves clinch the win! All eyes on 5 pic.twitter.com/UaMuwtzKEW
— Pepperdine Women's Tennis (@WavesTennis) February 5, 2022

RESULTS
#5 Pepperdine 5, #19 UCLA 2
Singles
1. #31 Fukuda, Shiori (PEPPW) def. #68 Forbes, Abigail (UCLA) 6-2, 6-3
2. #10 Zaar, Lisa (PEPPW) def. #49 Vagramov, Sasha (UCLA) 7-6 (7-2), 6-2*
3. Hance, Kimmi (UCLA) def. #30 Flores, Victoria (PEPPW) 6-4, 6-1
4. #18 Pachkaleva, Taisiya (PEPPW) def. Ong, Vanessa (UCLA) 6-3, 6-2
5. #93 Tjen, Janice (PEPPW) def. Wagle, Elise (UCLA) 7-6 (7-3), 6-7 (2-7), 1-0 (10-7)
6. #36 Broadus, Savannah (PEPPW) def. Catanzarite, Ava (UCLA) 6-2, 6-0
Order of finish: 6,3,1,4,2,5

Doubles
1. Forbes, Abigail/Catanzarite, Ava (UCLA) def. #11 Zaar, Lisa/Flores, Victoria (PEPPW) 6-3
2. Broadus, Savannah/Tjen, Janice (PEPPW) def. Wagle, Elise/Ong, Vanessa (UCLA) 6-0
3. Vagramov, Sasha/Hance, Kimmi (UCLA) def. Fukuda, Shiori/Iamachkine Anastasia (PEPPW) 6-3
Order of finish: 2,3,1

RECAP
Pepperdine started off the beautiful Malibu afternoon a little rocky, dropping the doubles point after a commanding 6-0 Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas) and Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indon court two.

DOUBLES
🌊🆚🐻

1. 2-4
2. 6-0 | 🌊
3. 3-3

Janice & Sav take court 2 on a deuce point! pic.twitter.com/XRR9h59CKT
— Pepperdine Women's Tennis (@WavesTennis) February 5, 2022

The Waves turned things around in singles, however, winning two of the first three courts to finish. 36^th-ranked Broadus continued her doubles success in singles with a 6-2, 6-0 drumming of UCLA's Catanzarite on court six.

The last three courts to finish all went the Waves' way, seeing 10^th-ranked Lisa Zaar clinch the match at 4-2 overall after a 7-6(2) first set tie-break and a 6-2 righting of her second set.
93^rd-ranked Janice Tjen needed a little extra drama to her triple set thriller where all three sets ended in tiebreakers. Tjen defeated Wagle 7-6(3) in the first set but dropped the second in reversed fashion. The third set consisted of a 10-point tiebreaker in place of a full set, and Tjen ran out for a 5-2 lead and won at 10-7 for the final Pepperdine point of the afternoon.