Women's Tennis Suffers First Loss to Kentucky

Sunday, January 18

Lexington, Ky.

4:00 PM

University of Louisville

Kentucky

January 18, 2004 | Women's Tennis

Jan. 18, 2004

The University of Louisville women's tennis team lost its first match of the dual season when they fell 7-0 to intrastate rival Kentucky in Lexington.

"Kentucky played a very good match against us," said U of L head coach Greg Davis. "They are very well coached and we showed our inexperience at times."

Leslie Stewart fell to No. 23 Aibika Kalsarieva 6-1, 6-1 victory after the Wildcats swept the doubles point. Joelle Schwenk beat Kelly Taylor by a 6-0, 6-3 count at the No. 3 position.

At No. 2, Sarah Foster was able to defeat Michele Spiess, 6-2, 6-4. Julia Hierl fell to Laura Maurer in straight sets, Caroline Winebrenner won with a straight setter over Christina Gogol. Christina Simpson had to rally from a first-set loss when Natalie Laszkowski took her toa third-set where Simpson won in a 10-point tiebreaker at No. 6.

The Cardinals (2-1) travel to Tuscaloosa, to take on Alabama next Friday as the dual season continues.

Kentucky 7, Louisville 0

Doubles

Foster/Kalsarieva (UK) def. Spiess/Stewart (UL) - 8-4 Schwenk/Maurer (UK) def. Gogol/Taylor (UL) - 8-2 Simpson/Winebrenner (UK) def. Laszkowski/Eber (UL) - 8-4

Singles

No. 23 Aibika Kalsarieva (UK) def. Leslie Stewart (UL) - 6-1, 6-1 Sarah Foster (UK) def. Michele Spiess (UL) - 6-2, 6-4 Joelle Schwenk (UK) def. Kelly Taylor (UL) - 6-0, 6-3 Lara Maurer (UK) def. Julia Hierl (UL) - 6-3, 6-1 Caroline Winebrenner (UK) def. Christina Gogol (MSU) - 6-3, 6-2 Christine Simpson (UK) def. Natalie Laszkowski (MSU) - 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (TB)