The Gators saved their best tennis for the last day of play of the fall season and won three of four singles matches against North Carolina and swept three doubles matches Sunday at the sixth-annual Kitty Harrison Invitational held at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.

 

Suiting up for the Gators in this individual tournament were Claire Bartlett (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Marrit Boonstra (The Netherlands), Brittany Borsanyi (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Lauren Embree (Marco Island, Fla.), Joanna Mather (Duluth, Ga.) and Anastasia Revzina (Russia).

 

Florida began the day earning impressive doubles victories, as Revzina and Embree defeated Georgia Tech’s Sasha Krupina and Elizabeth Kilborn, 8-3, and Bartlett and Mather topped GeLynn Blau and Hillary Davis, 8-4. The Gators completed the doubles sweep when

Boonstra and Borsanyi defeated Princeton’s Monica Chow and Rachel Saiontz, 8-4.

 

On the singles courts, Florida squared off against host North Carolina, which had a good crowd on hand, and the Gators emerged with three wins. Embree earned another victory over a nationally-ranked opponent, when she downed 34^th-ranked Katrina Tsang, 7-5, 6-4. Revzina followed with a tough 6-2, 4-6 (10-8) win against Jelena Durisic and Mather defeated 91^st-ranked Shinann Featherston, 1-6, 6-3, (10-8). UF’s lone setback was a hard-fought 6-3, 4-6, (10-6) decision by Borsanyi to Zoe De Bruycker.

 

The Gators competed against players from 11 other schools, including Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, N.C. State, Princeton, TCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech and William & Mary.

 

“This was how you wanted to finish the fall season,” UF associate head coach Dave Balogh said. “We played our best matches today and improved every day. Our doubles performance was much better, too. When our backs were against the wall, especially in the tiebreakers, and we out-competed them. It’s a great feeling to watch the team get better and better.”

 

This weekend is the final competition of the fall season for the Gators, who return to the courts on January 15, 2010, at the Freeman Memorial held in Las Vegas, before launching their 2009-10 dual match schedule on Jan. 24 playing host to North Texas at Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis Complex.

 

 

2009 Kitty Harrison Invitational

Hosted by the Univ. of North Carolina

Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center

Chapel Hill, N.C.

 

Sunday, November 08, 2009

 

UF Results Only

 

Doubles

Anastasia Revzina/ Lauren Embree (UF) d. Sasha Krupina/ Elizabeth Kilborn (Ga. Tech), 8-3

Claire Bartlett/Joanna Mather (UF) d. Lynn Blau/ Hillary Davis (Ga. Tech), 8-4

Marrit Boonstra/Brittany Borsanyi (UF) d. Monica Chow/ Rachel Saiontz (Princeton), 8-4

 

Singles

Lauren Embree (UF) d. [34] Katrina Tsang (UNC), 7-5, 6-4

[33] Anastasia Revzina (UF) d. Jelena Durisic (UNC), 6-2, 4-6 (10-8)

Joanna Mather (UF) d. [91] Shinann Featherston (UNC), 1-6, 6-3, (10-8)

Zoe De Bruycker (UNC) d. Brittany Borsanyi (UF), 6-3, 4-6, (10-6)

 

[ITA National Ranking]

 

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