PROVO, Utah — Continuing its three-game road trip, the #5 Pepperdine women's tennis team kept its unblemished record in West Coast Conference play with a 5-2 win against #74 BYU in Provo, Utah on Saturday. Saturday's win was Pepperdine's twelfth-straight over the Cougars.
The Waves (14-3, 5-0 WCC) bounced back in singles play after the Cougars (10-8, 4-3 WCC) won the doubles point. Pepperdine would win five of the six singles matches; none went to the third set. Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden) cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win over Emilee Astle to to the score at one apiece, then
Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas) beat Tina Li 6-4, 6-1 moments later to give the Waves a 2-1 lead.
Although BYU tied the score with a win on court four, Anna Campana (Hillsborough, Calif.) won 6-4, 6-3 on court six to give Pepperdine a lead it would not relinquish. Over on court one, #11
Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) beat Bobo Huan 7-5, 6-3 to clinch the match.
The remaining match was played out: Nikki Redelijk (Windermere, Fla.) would prevail 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) over BYU's Helen Jiao to close the book on Pepperdine's 5-2 win.
RESULTS
DOUBLES
Astle/Dunyon def. #1 Broadus/Tjen, 6-2
Huang/Li vs. #33 Thamchaiwat/Zaar, 3-3 (abandoned)
Jiao/Wheatley def. A. Campana/Redelijk, 6-0
Order of finish: 3,1
SINGLES
#11 Tjen def Huang, 7-5, 6-3
#30 Zaar def. Astle 6-1, 6-2
#18 Broadus def. Li 6-4, 6-1
Dunyon def. Thamchaiwat 6-4, 6-3
Redelijk def. Jiao 6-3, 7-6 (7-1)
A. Campana def. Moore 6-4, 6-3
Order of finish: 2,3,4,6,1*,5
NEXT UP: Pepperdine wraps up its road trip in a battle of undefeated WCC teams as it travels to play the #25 San Diego Toreros on Wednesday, April 19. First serve is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
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