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Women's Tennis Defeats Tennessee, 5-4
4/7/2000 | Women's Tennis
April 7, 2000
OXFORD, Miss. - The No. 17 nationally-ranked Ole Miss women's tennis team won four singles matches and then dominated at No. 3 doubles to defeat 22nd-ranked Tennessee 5-4 Friday afternoon at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center.
Ole Miss improves to 13-6 overall, 5-3 in the SEC, while Tennessee drops to 13-10 and 4-4 in conference play. The Lady Rebels have won three of their last four matches and improve to 7-3 at home this year.
Senior Celeste Frey got things going with perhaps her best peformance of the year, downing Agnes Wiski 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2 singles. Wiski won the first two games of the match, and then Frey won 10 straight on her way to the win.
Freshman Mira Radu has now won four in a row as she cruised to a 6-1, 6-4 win over Meiling Parks at No. 4 singles. Alesya Ignatieva defeated Tennessee's Candy Reid 6-3, 6-4 at No. 5 singles to make it 3-0 Lady Rebels.
Ivona Mihailova won the first set against Alison Ojeda 7-6(3) and then dominated the second 6-1 to give Ole Miss a 4-0 lead. Tenneesse's Crystal Cleveland won her 10th match in a row at No. 6 singles, defeating Lady Rebel Irena Mihailova 7-6, 7-5 to put the Lady Vols on the board.
On court three, Lady Vol Vilmarie Castellvi rallied to beat Mariana Eberle 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to make it 4-2 Ole Miss and force doubles play. The loss snapped Eberle's five-match win streak.
It didn't take long for the Lady Rebels to win the clinching point as Ivona Mihailova and Ignatieva dominated Parks and Cleveland 8-2 at No. 3 doubles to seal the victory. The pair beat a Tennessee team that came into the match winners of seven in a row.
Tennessee won at No. 2 doubles, and Ole Miss defaulted the No. 1 doubles match for the final score.
The Lady Rebels will host South Carolina Sunday at 1:00 p.m. in the final regular season match. Sunday's match will mark the final regular season home contest for four seniors.
#17 Ole Miss 5
#22 Tennessee 4
SINGLES
#1 Ivona Mihailova (OM) def. Alison Ojeda (UT) 7-6(3), 6-1
#2 Celeste Frey (OM) def. Agnes Wiski (UT) 6-2, 6-1
#3 Vilmarie Castellvi (UT) def. Mariana Eberle (OM) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
#4 Mira Radu (OM) def. Meiling Parks (UT) 6-0, 6-4
#5 Alesya Ignatieva (OM) def. Candy Reid (UT) 6-3, 6-4
#6 Crystal Cleveland (UT) def. Irena Mihailova (OM) 7-6, 7-5
DOUBLES
#1 Ojeda-Castellvi (UT) def. Eberle-Julie DeRoo (OM) default
#2 Wiski-Reid (UT) def. Frey-Ir. Mihailova (OM) 9-7
#3 Iv. Mihailova-Ignatieva (OM) def. Parks-Cleveland (UT) 8-2
