MALIBU, Calif. – For the 10th time in program history, the #9 Pepperdine women's tennis program has won the regular-season title in the West Coast Conference after defeating #44 San Diego 6-1 on Saturday morning at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center.
Apart from the shortened 2020 season where very few WCC matches were played, this is also the 10th-straight year that Pepperdine (18-6, 7-0) has claimed the league's regular-season crown.
The Waves got things going early in doubles, as the 25th-ranked pair of Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas) and Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) posted a 6-3 victory on court two to open up the morning. With both courts one and three near a clinch, court one's 23rd-ranked pair of Victoria Flores (Fort Dodge, Iowa) and Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden) also won a 6-3 decision to take the doubles point over San Diego (13-5, 4-2 WCC).
Pepperdine kept the momentum in singles after taking four first sets. #94 Broadus was the first singles winner of the day, dispatching Victoria Kalaitzis on court five, 6-0, 6-1. #102 Tjen continued her dominant play with a 6-1, 6-3 straight-set win on court three over Jordyn McBride. #57 Flores clinched the outright championship for the Waves with another straight-set victory, 6-2, 6-0, over Jessi Muljat on court six.
Courts one, two and four played out to completion. USD claimed a ranked victory on the top court for its first point of the day. #36 Taisiya Pachkaleva (Moscow, Russia) got the Waves on the board once again with a 4-6, 6-4, [10-7] win over Elizabeth Goldsmith on court three in an abbreviated third set.
To finish up the afternoon, #26 Zaar took care of business on court four, winning 6-4, 7-5 over Claudia De Las Heras.
RESULTS
DOUBLES
#25 Flores/Zaar def. De Las Heras/Goldsmith 6-3
#23 Broadus/Tjen def. McBride/Kalaitzis 6-3
Fukuda/Pachkaleva vs. Colling/Desiatnikov 5-3 unfinished
Order of finish: 2, 1
SINGLES
#56 Colling def. #18 Fukuda 6-0, 7-5
#36 Pachkaleva def. Goldsmith 4-6, 6-4, [10-7]
#102 Tjen def. McBride 6-1, 6-3
#26 Zaar def. De Las Heras 6-4, 7-5
#94 Broadus def. Kalaitzis 6-0, 6-1
#57 Flores def. Muljat 6-2, 6-0
Order of finish: 5, 3, 6*, 1, 2, 4
NEXT UP: Pepperdine will head to Ojai, California, for the WCC Tournament next Friday and Saturday. The Waves will play on Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. and will face the winner of the quarterfinal between the fourth and fifth seed. Opponents will not become official until tomorrow.
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