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Day 1
Buffs Wrap Up Day One of the Baylor Invite
September 20, 2024 | Tennis
WACO, TEXAS – For the first of three times this season the Colorado Buffaloes tennis team travelled to Baylor, this time for the Baylor Invite for six athletes to compete going 5-7 on day one.
Action got started this morning with doubles where the group went a combined 2-4. The two wins came in the first round starting with Betina Tokac and Rixt van der Werff coming away with a 6-2 win over UTSA's Arina Babenko and Natalia Castaneda Guerrero. The win marks Van der Werff's first collegiate victory.
The other win came from Lera Alexin and Willow Gretsch. The duo came away with a 7-5 victory over Baylor's own Lauren Littell Nanaka Sato. This also marks Alexin's first collegiate win.
After a rough second round of doubles the Buffs moved to singles where they finished a combined 3-3. The three Buffs who came away with wins were Alexin, Tokac, and Nelson.
Tokac got the first singles win of the day against Baylor's Nanaka Sato. After dropping the first set 6-1, Tokac found herself up 4-1 before Sato was forced to retire due to injury.Â
In the second singles win Alexin came back after Baylor's Sierra Berry took the first set 7-5 to win the second set 7-5 and take the third set ten-point tiebreaker 10-3 to earn her first career singles win.
The final win of the day came from Nelson in a comeback. After Nebraska's Lucy Loy took the first set 6-4 and was close to finishing off the second set up 5-4, Nelson stormed back to take the set in a tiebreaker 7-6 (2). In lieu of a third set they played out a ten-point tiebreaker that Nelson was able to finish off 10-6 to complete the come from behind victory.
Up NextÂ
The Buffs will be back at the Baylor Invite tomorrow for Day two, but they will have competition going as well in Cary, N.C. at the ITA All-American Championships. Mila Stanojevic will get the pair started at 10:30 a.m. against Illinois's Kasia Treiber. While she is going Aya El Sayed will join her an hour later at 11:30 a.m. against Northern Illinois's Erika Dimitriev. The two will start in the pre-qualifying rounds and look to move on to the qualifying rounds starting on September 23.Â
RESULTS
Doubles
Betina Tokac/Rixt van der Werff (CU) def. Arina Babenko/Natalia Castaneda Guerrero (UTSA) 6-2
Lera Alexin/Willow Gretsch (CU) def. Lauren Littell/Nanaka Sato (BAY) 7-5
Maria Martinez Hernandez/Darya Schwartzman (Rice) def. Anya Nelson/Pia Rebec (CU) 6-2
Letizia Corsini/Ekua Youri (UTSA) def. Anya Nelson/Pia Rebec (CU) 6-0
Sierra Berry/Yu Wenfei (BAY) def. Betina Tokac/Rixt van der Werff (CU) 6-3
Valeriia Krokhotina/Iva Sepa (HOU) def. Lera Alexin/Willow Gretsch (CU) 7-5
Singles
Betina Tokac (CU) def. Nanaka Sato (BAY) 1-6, 4-1, inj.
Yu Wenfei (BAY) def. Pia Rebec (CU) 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (6)
Lera Alexin (CU) def. Sierra Berry (BAY) 5-7, 7-5, 1-0 (3)
Brooke Thompson (BAY) def. Willow Gretsch (CU) 6-2, 6-1
Violeta Martinez (Ill) def. Rixt van der Werff (CU) 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8)
Anya Nelson (CU) def. Lucy Loy (NEB) 4-6, 7-6 (2), 1-0 (6)
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Action got started this morning with doubles where the group went a combined 2-4. The two wins came in the first round starting with Betina Tokac and Rixt van der Werff coming away with a 6-2 win over UTSA's Arina Babenko and Natalia Castaneda Guerrero. The win marks Van der Werff's first collegiate victory.
The other win came from Lera Alexin and Willow Gretsch. The duo came away with a 7-5 victory over Baylor's own Lauren Littell Nanaka Sato. This also marks Alexin's first collegiate win.
After a rough second round of doubles the Buffs moved to singles where they finished a combined 3-3. The three Buffs who came away with wins were Alexin, Tokac, and Nelson.
Tokac got the first singles win of the day against Baylor's Nanaka Sato. After dropping the first set 6-1, Tokac found herself up 4-1 before Sato was forced to retire due to injury.Â
In the second singles win Alexin came back after Baylor's Sierra Berry took the first set 7-5 to win the second set 7-5 and take the third set ten-point tiebreaker 10-3 to earn her first career singles win.
The final win of the day came from Nelson in a comeback. After Nebraska's Lucy Loy took the first set 6-4 and was close to finishing off the second set up 5-4, Nelson stormed back to take the set in a tiebreaker 7-6 (2). In lieu of a third set they played out a ten-point tiebreaker that Nelson was able to finish off 10-6 to complete the come from behind victory.
Up NextÂ
The Buffs will be back at the Baylor Invite tomorrow for Day two, but they will have competition going as well in Cary, N.C. at the ITA All-American Championships. Mila Stanojevic will get the pair started at 10:30 a.m. against Illinois's Kasia Treiber. While she is going Aya El Sayed will join her an hour later at 11:30 a.m. against Northern Illinois's Erika Dimitriev. The two will start in the pre-qualifying rounds and look to move on to the qualifying rounds starting on September 23.Â
RESULTS
Doubles
Betina Tokac/Rixt van der Werff (CU) def. Arina Babenko/Natalia Castaneda Guerrero (UTSA) 6-2
Lera Alexin/Willow Gretsch (CU) def. Lauren Littell/Nanaka Sato (BAY) 7-5
Maria Martinez Hernandez/Darya Schwartzman (Rice) def. Anya Nelson/Pia Rebec (CU) 6-2
Letizia Corsini/Ekua Youri (UTSA) def. Anya Nelson/Pia Rebec (CU) 6-0
Sierra Berry/Yu Wenfei (BAY) def. Betina Tokac/Rixt van der Werff (CU) 6-3
Valeriia Krokhotina/Iva Sepa (HOU) def. Lera Alexin/Willow Gretsch (CU) 7-5
Singles
Betina Tokac (CU) def. Nanaka Sato (BAY) 1-6, 4-1, inj.
Yu Wenfei (BAY) def. Pia Rebec (CU) 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (6)
Lera Alexin (CU) def. Sierra Berry (BAY) 5-7, 7-5, 1-0 (3)
Brooke Thompson (BAY) def. Willow Gretsch (CU) 6-2, 6-1
Violeta Martinez (Ill) def. Rixt van der Werff (CU) 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8)
Anya Nelson (CU) def. Lucy Loy (NEB) 4-6, 7-6 (2), 1-0 (6)
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