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University of Massachusets Athletics
Saturday, February 23
Amherst, Mass.
1:30 PM
University of Massachusetts
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Quinnipiac
Photo by: Thom Kendall - UMass Athletics
Tennis Welcomes Quinnipiac, LIU Brooklyn To Town
February 22, 2019 | Tennis
Minutewomen host pair of matches at the Bay Road Tennis Club
AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts tennis hosts a pair of weekend matches with Quinnipiac and LIU Brooklyn in town on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. The Minutewomen begin against Quinnipiac on Sat., Feb. 23 at 1:30 p.m. with doubles play. UMass and LIU Brooklyn also open up action at the Bay Road Tennis Center on Sun., Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m.
Last Time Out: Massachusetts 6, Marist 1
UMass capped a five-match road streak with a pair of strong weekend performances, including a 6-1 victory over Marist College at the Cross Court Tennis Facility in Wappingers Falls, New York, on Sunday afternoon. Massachusetts took all three at doubles and five of the six singles matches from the Red Foxes as the Minutewomen improved to 4-2 overall on the year. Marist dropped to 2-5 with the loss.
The Minutewomen worked through doubles play quickly with their wins in all three matches. Jodie Lawrence-Taylor and Anna Napadiy swept Sophia Moeller and Jada Tijani for a 6-0 win at No. 2 before Ashley Avery and Ruth Crawford downed Chloe Lant and Sophia Chavarria 6-3. Janja Kovacevic and Martina Bocchi finished off the doubles sweep with a 6-2 triumph over Julia Gabay and Sam Galu.
Jasmin Tripathy stepped into a roll at No. 5 singles against the Red Foxes and produced the quickest outcome with a 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Chavarria. Lawrence-Taylor finished off her perfect day with a 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Gabay at No. 1 as Massachusetts pushed ahead, 3-0. Bocchi sealed the team victory with a 6-3, 6-1 margin over Price at No. 2.
Bogicevic defeated Lawt 6-3, 6-0 at No. 4 singles before Moeller ended the team's perfect day with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Napadiy at No. 3. Avery capped the afternoon with a 6-2, 7-6 triumph at No. 6.
Massachusetts Sweeps A-10 Weekly Awards Following Back-To-Back Dominant Efforts
Junior Janja Kovacevic and freshman Jodie Lawrence-Taylor swept the Atlantic 10 Conference weekly women's tennis accolades with Kovacevic named the player of the week and Lawrence-Taylor the rookie of the week, as announced by the league office on Wednesday. It marks Kovacevic's first A-10 Player of the Week accolade of the year and Lawrence-Taylor's second rookie laurel in three weeks.
UMass tennis claimed identical 6-1 wins at Binghamton and at Marist College on Sat., Feb. 9 and Sun., Feb. 10, respectively, as Kovacevic notched three individual victories in as many matches played. Kovacevic won alongside Martina Bocchi at No. 1 doubles against Binghamton and Marist by 6-0 and 6-2 margins, respectively. In singles, Kovacevic played at No. 1 against Binghamton's top player, Samantha Eisenberg, and posted a 6-2, 6-0 win.
Lawrence-Taylor also collected three wins on the weekend, two at doubles and one at singles. She teamed with Anna Napadiy for a pair of wins at No. 2 doubles, 6-2 over Binghamton and 6-0 at Marist. Lawrence-Taylor completed the perfect day at Marist with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout of the Red Foxes' top competitor at No. 1 singles.
UMass Fights Back For 4-3 Win At St. John's
• University of Massachusetts tennis rallied for a 4-3 win at 2018 Big East Champion St. John's on Sunday evening. After UMass dropped the doubles point and a pair of singles matches en route to a 3-1 deficit, the Minutewomen rallied with back-to-back-to-back singles victories for the team victory.
• Jasmin Tripathy (No. 6), Ruth Crawford (No. 3), Jodie Lawrence-Taylor (No. 2) and Martina Bocchi (No. 5) provided the singles victories that vaulted Massachusetts to the come-from-behind triumph.
Massachusetts Opens The Spring With Sweep Of Providence
• University of Massachusetts tennis began its spring campaign with a dominant sweep of Providence at the Bay Road Tennis Club on Sat., Jan. 26. During the day, the Maroon and White won all three doubles matches before the team claimed victory in each of the six singles matches.
• The Minutewomen won comfortably in all but one match as Jodie Lawrence-Taylor and Martina Bocchi needed a tie-breaker for the 7-6 (2) margin over Risa Takenaka and Sera Satkowski. The next-closest score was Bocchi's 6-3, 6-2 victory over Satkowski at No. 3 singles.
UMass Tennis Receives Grant Recognizing ITA Community Service Commitment
• University of Massachusetts tennis received unique recognition from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for its civic commitment as one of only three programs nationally to earn ITA Community Service Month grants on Wednesday, as announced by the ITA.
• All teams that performed 20-plus hours of community service were entered in a drawing, where the team selected received a $500 ITA grant and the University of Massachusetts team took home the prize. During the month of October, the team was involved in assisting Habitat for Humanity.
• In addition to the University of Massachusetts' grant, the College of Charleston team won the Limoneira Hours Challenge while the University of Alabama Birmingham generated the most social media engagement and earned an ITA grant as a result.
Shiran Arol Wiegand Joins UMass Tennis Family
• The University of Massachusetts tennis and head coach Juancarlos Nunez announced the signing of Shiran Arol Wiegand to a National Letter of Intent on Nov. 19, 2018. An accomplished competitor in her native Israel as well as internationally, Arol Wiegand joins the program following two years of military service in her home country.
• Ranked as high as 618 in the ITF Juniors highlighted by reaching the Singles Final of the ITF G4 in Bat Yam, Israel, Arol Wiegand rached No. 2 in the Israeli Junior rankings and No. 8 in the Israeli Women's rankings. Additionally, she represented Israel in the Maccabiah World Games, winning the silver in mixed doubles in 2017, and is currently serving in the Israeli Army before she starts at UMass in the Fall, 2019.
Landmark Success For Massachusetts Dots ITA Northeast Regional Outcomes
• Massachusetts tennis sent four competitors to the 2018 holding of the ITA Northeast Regional at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which included trips to the singles bracket Round of 16 by Janja Kovacevic and Jodie Lawrence-Taylor.Â
• Kovacevic avoided the first round thanks to her No. 22 seeding for the tournament, and bested Princeton's Nathalie Rodilosso as well as No. 11 Jennifer Kerr from Columbia to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Lawrence-Taylor needed three wins to reach the final 16 spots as she outperformed Quinnipiac's Dominique Vasile (first round), the No. 14 seed in Columbia's Melissa Sakar (second round) and No. 19 seed Natasha Irani from Boston College (round of 32).
Back For Another Round
• Massachusetts returns eight members from its 2017-18 squad, including senior Ruth Crawford, juniors Ashley Avery, Martina Bocchi, Tami Comins and Janja Kovacevic and sophomores Jovana Bogicevic, Sarah Mezini and Anna Napadiy. Crawford, the team's captain, was an Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team selection as a junior one year ago while Kovacevic earned second team accolades as a sophomore.
• The returnees include four of the six primary singles competitors from last season in the No. 1 (Crawford), No. 3 (Kovacevic), No. 5 (Napadiy) and No. 6 (Bocchi) players. Crawford and Kovacevic were also primarily paired at No. 2 doubles while Napadiy played alongside Avery at No. 3 doubles.Â
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Last Time Out: Massachusetts 6, Marist 1
UMass capped a five-match road streak with a pair of strong weekend performances, including a 6-1 victory over Marist College at the Cross Court Tennis Facility in Wappingers Falls, New York, on Sunday afternoon. Massachusetts took all three at doubles and five of the six singles matches from the Red Foxes as the Minutewomen improved to 4-2 overall on the year. Marist dropped to 2-5 with the loss.
The Minutewomen worked through doubles play quickly with their wins in all three matches. Jodie Lawrence-Taylor and Anna Napadiy swept Sophia Moeller and Jada Tijani for a 6-0 win at No. 2 before Ashley Avery and Ruth Crawford downed Chloe Lant and Sophia Chavarria 6-3. Janja Kovacevic and Martina Bocchi finished off the doubles sweep with a 6-2 triumph over Julia Gabay and Sam Galu.
Jasmin Tripathy stepped into a roll at No. 5 singles against the Red Foxes and produced the quickest outcome with a 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Chavarria. Lawrence-Taylor finished off her perfect day with a 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Gabay at No. 1 as Massachusetts pushed ahead, 3-0. Bocchi sealed the team victory with a 6-3, 6-1 margin over Price at No. 2.
Bogicevic defeated Lawt 6-3, 6-0 at No. 4 singles before Moeller ended the team's perfect day with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Napadiy at No. 3. Avery capped the afternoon with a 6-2, 7-6 triumph at No. 6.
Massachusetts Sweeps A-10 Weekly Awards Following Back-To-Back Dominant Efforts
Junior Janja Kovacevic and freshman Jodie Lawrence-Taylor swept the Atlantic 10 Conference weekly women's tennis accolades with Kovacevic named the player of the week and Lawrence-Taylor the rookie of the week, as announced by the league office on Wednesday. It marks Kovacevic's first A-10 Player of the Week accolade of the year and Lawrence-Taylor's second rookie laurel in three weeks.
UMass tennis claimed identical 6-1 wins at Binghamton and at Marist College on Sat., Feb. 9 and Sun., Feb. 10, respectively, as Kovacevic notched three individual victories in as many matches played. Kovacevic won alongside Martina Bocchi at No. 1 doubles against Binghamton and Marist by 6-0 and 6-2 margins, respectively. In singles, Kovacevic played at No. 1 against Binghamton's top player, Samantha Eisenberg, and posted a 6-2, 6-0 win.
Lawrence-Taylor also collected three wins on the weekend, two at doubles and one at singles. She teamed with Anna Napadiy for a pair of wins at No. 2 doubles, 6-2 over Binghamton and 6-0 at Marist. Lawrence-Taylor completed the perfect day at Marist with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout of the Red Foxes' top competitor at No. 1 singles.
UMass Fights Back For 4-3 Win At St. John's
• University of Massachusetts tennis rallied for a 4-3 win at 2018 Big East Champion St. John's on Sunday evening. After UMass dropped the doubles point and a pair of singles matches en route to a 3-1 deficit, the Minutewomen rallied with back-to-back-to-back singles victories for the team victory.
• Jasmin Tripathy (No. 6), Ruth Crawford (No. 3), Jodie Lawrence-Taylor (No. 2) and Martina Bocchi (No. 5) provided the singles victories that vaulted Massachusetts to the come-from-behind triumph.
Massachusetts Opens The Spring With Sweep Of Providence
• University of Massachusetts tennis began its spring campaign with a dominant sweep of Providence at the Bay Road Tennis Club on Sat., Jan. 26. During the day, the Maroon and White won all three doubles matches before the team claimed victory in each of the six singles matches.
• The Minutewomen won comfortably in all but one match as Jodie Lawrence-Taylor and Martina Bocchi needed a tie-breaker for the 7-6 (2) margin over Risa Takenaka and Sera Satkowski. The next-closest score was Bocchi's 6-3, 6-2 victory over Satkowski at No. 3 singles.
UMass Tennis Receives Grant Recognizing ITA Community Service Commitment
• University of Massachusetts tennis received unique recognition from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for its civic commitment as one of only three programs nationally to earn ITA Community Service Month grants on Wednesday, as announced by the ITA.
• All teams that performed 20-plus hours of community service were entered in a drawing, where the team selected received a $500 ITA grant and the University of Massachusetts team took home the prize. During the month of October, the team was involved in assisting Habitat for Humanity.
• In addition to the University of Massachusetts' grant, the College of Charleston team won the Limoneira Hours Challenge while the University of Alabama Birmingham generated the most social media engagement and earned an ITA grant as a result.
Shiran Arol Wiegand Joins UMass Tennis Family
• The University of Massachusetts tennis and head coach Juancarlos Nunez announced the signing of Shiran Arol Wiegand to a National Letter of Intent on Nov. 19, 2018. An accomplished competitor in her native Israel as well as internationally, Arol Wiegand joins the program following two years of military service in her home country.
• Ranked as high as 618 in the ITF Juniors highlighted by reaching the Singles Final of the ITF G4 in Bat Yam, Israel, Arol Wiegand rached No. 2 in the Israeli Junior rankings and No. 8 in the Israeli Women's rankings. Additionally, she represented Israel in the Maccabiah World Games, winning the silver in mixed doubles in 2017, and is currently serving in the Israeli Army before she starts at UMass in the Fall, 2019.
Landmark Success For Massachusetts Dots ITA Northeast Regional Outcomes
• Massachusetts tennis sent four competitors to the 2018 holding of the ITA Northeast Regional at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which included trips to the singles bracket Round of 16 by Janja Kovacevic and Jodie Lawrence-Taylor.Â
• Kovacevic avoided the first round thanks to her No. 22 seeding for the tournament, and bested Princeton's Nathalie Rodilosso as well as No. 11 Jennifer Kerr from Columbia to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Lawrence-Taylor needed three wins to reach the final 16 spots as she outperformed Quinnipiac's Dominique Vasile (first round), the No. 14 seed in Columbia's Melissa Sakar (second round) and No. 19 seed Natasha Irani from Boston College (round of 32).
Back For Another Round
• Massachusetts returns eight members from its 2017-18 squad, including senior Ruth Crawford, juniors Ashley Avery, Martina Bocchi, Tami Comins and Janja Kovacevic and sophomores Jovana Bogicevic, Sarah Mezini and Anna Napadiy. Crawford, the team's captain, was an Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team selection as a junior one year ago while Kovacevic earned second team accolades as a sophomore.
• The returnees include four of the six primary singles competitors from last season in the No. 1 (Crawford), No. 3 (Kovacevic), No. 5 (Napadiy) and No. 6 (Bocchi) players. Crawford and Kovacevic were also primarily paired at No. 2 doubles while Napadiy played alongside Avery at No. 3 doubles.Â
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