No. 14 Women's Tennis Falls To No. 2 Florida, 6-1

Feb. 15, 2003

Gainesville, Fla. – The No. 14 University of Miami women’s tennis team suffered its first loss of the 2003 season falling, 6-1, to No. 2 University of Florida Saturday afternoon at the Alfred Ring Tennis Complex in Gainesville, Fla.

The Hurricanes fall to 4-1 on the season, while the Gators improve to 7-1. Additionally, Florida improves its all-time series record over Miami to 31-21.

Freshman Melissa Applebaum was the only Hurricane to earn a singles point, defeating No. 9 Alex Gordon with a straight set victory, 6-3, 6-2. Applebaum improves her record to a perfect 5-0.

Despite an 8-4 doubles victory by Abby Smith and Igna DeVilliers over Florida’s No. 7 duo of Alex Gordon and Julia Scaringe, Florida took two of the three doubles matches to jump out to an early 1-0 lead.

Florida’s No. 26 Zerene Reyes routed Miami’s Ewelina Skaza, 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 5 position to give the Gator’s its first singles point and a 2-0 lead.

UF took a convincing 3-0 lead when No. 83 Jennifer Magley defeated Sara Robbins, 6-4, 6-2 at the No. 6 singles spot.

Finally, at the No. 1 position, No. 7 Lindsay Dawaf defeated Miami’s Megan Bradley, 6-2, 7-6 to clinch the match victory for Florida.

The Hurricanes are back in action as they host Harvard on Monday, Feb. 17 at 11 a.m. at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center on the UM campus.

Doubles
No. 1 Abby Smith/Igna DeVilliers (UM) def. Alexis Gordon/ Julia Scaringe (UF) 8-4
No. 2 Lindsay Dawaf/ Julie Rotondi (UF) def. Sara Robbins/ Melissa Applebaum (UM) 8-3
No. 3 Jennifer Magley/ Zerene Reyes (UF) Staci Stevens/Mari Toro (UM) 9-7

Singles
No. 1 – Lindsay Dawaf (UF) def. Megan Bradley (UM) 6-2, 7-6 (3)
No. 2 – Julia Scaringe (UF) def. Mari Toro (UM) 6-3, 6-3
No. 3 – Melissa Applebaum (UM) def. Alexis Gordon (UF) 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 – Julie Rotondi (UF) def. Staci Stevens (UM) 7-5, 6-3
No. 5 – Zerene Reyes (UF) def. Ewelina Skaza (UM) 6-0, 6-0
No. 6 – Jennifer Magley (UF) def. Sara Robbins (UM) 6-4, 6-2