SAN DIEGO Calif. — In a battle between two PCH Cup rivals for the West Coast Conference Championship title, the #7 Pepperdine Waves emerged victorious with a 4-0 sweep over #51 Loyola Marymount in San Diego on Saturday.
The win marked the Waves' (18-3, 7-0 WCC) ninth-straight WCC Championship title and its 31st WCC tournament title. Factoring in regular-season titles, the Waves have won 42 regular-season and tournament titles in program history. It's also the seventh WCC Championship title won under the direction of head coach Per Nilsson, who has an undefeated record as a head coach in WCC postseason play. Pepperdine hasn't lost a dual match against a conference opponent since the 2014-15 season.
Additionally, all six Waves earned spots on the WCC All-Tournament team. All three all-tournament doubles teams were from Pepperdine, plus #19 Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas), #108 Nikki Redelijk (Windermere, Fla.) and #16 Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) earned all-tournament honors in singles.
Pepperdine kept the upset-minded Lions (15-7, 7-2 WCC) at bay in doubles, as all three teams got out to big leads early. #32 Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand) and Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden) got Pepperdine on the board first with a 6-2 win on court two, then Anna Campana (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Redelijk finished off the Lions with a 6-1 win on the third line.
Then in singles play, four of the five Waves jumped out to first-set wins. Redelijk clinched first with a dominant 6-0, 6-1 win on court five, then Tjen outlasted her opponent 6-4, 6-1 on court three to give Pepperdine a 3-0 lead. Broadus, a WCC All-First Team selection in singles with an undefeated record this season, would cinch the Waves' ninth-straight WCC Tournament on court two with a 6-0, 6-2 win.
2023 WCC WOMEN'S ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
DOUBLES
Savannah Broadus/Janice Tjen (Pepperdine)
Lisa Zaar/Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Pepperdine)
Nikki Redelijk/Anna Campana (Pepperdine)
SINGLES
Savannah Broadus (Pepperdine)
Solymar Colling (San Diego)
Avigail Desiatnikov (San Diego)
Sofia Munera (LMU)
Nikki Redelijk (Pepperdine)
Janice Tjen (Pepperdine)
RESULTS
DOUBLES
#1 Broadus/Tjen vs. Miroshnichenko/Voracek 5-3, unfinished
#32 Thamchaiwat/Zaar def. Rutowska/Tcherkes-Zade 6-2
A. Campana/Redelijk def. Paradisi/Munera, 6-1
Order of finish: 2,3
SINGLES
#31 Zaar vs. #87 Miroshnichenko, 6-2, 1-6 unfinished
#19 Broadus def. Rogozinska-Dzik 6-0, 6-2
#16 Tjen def. Voracek 6-4, 6-1
Paradisi vs. Thamchaiwat 4-6, 1-1, unfinished
#108 Redelijk def. Tcherkes-Zade 6-0, 6-1
Munera vs.
A. Campana 6-3, 1-4 unfinished
Order of finish: 5,3,2*
NEXT UP: Pepperdine's postseason fate will be determined in the NCAA Division I women's tennis selection show, which is set to air on Monday, May 1 at 3 p.m. PT on NCAA.com.
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