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Women's Tennis Drops First Match Of Season
1/29/2001 | Women's Tennis
Jan. 29, 2001
PROVO, Utah - The 19th-ranked Ole Miss women's tennis team, playing its third match in four days, dropped its first match of the season, 4-0, to 46th-ranked BYU, Monday afternoon. With the loss, the Lady Rebels go 2-1 on their road trip after beating New Mexico and Kansas State over the weekend.
The Cougars started hot and never let up. They claimed the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and 3 doubles. Hanna-Katri Aalto and Alesya Ignatieva lost 8-4, to BYU's Jodi Richardson and Brooke Ferney, and then Audra Adams and Camilla Gould fell to Lu Oswald and Lindsay Ferrell 8-5 at No. 3 doubles.
Seventh-ranked DeRoo suffered her first dual match loss, 6-2, 6-4, to Richardson at No. 1 singles. Freshman Hanna-Katri Aalto dropped a straight-set decision (7-5, 6-2) to the Cougar's Ferney and then Karem Harboe, also a freshman, lost to Oswald 6-1, 7-6, at No. 4 singles.
On Friday, the Lady Rebels downed New Mexico 7-0, and then they dominated Kansas State 7-0, on Saturday and are now 5-1 on the season.
The Lady Rebels return to action Feb. 10 as they host SEC foe Arkansas at 1:00 p.m.
#46 BYU 4
#19 Ole Miss 0
SINGLES
#1 Jodi Richardson (BYU) def. Julie DeRoo (OM) 6-2, 6-4
#2 Brooke Ferney (BYU) def. Hanna-Katri Aalto (OM) 7-5, 6-2
#3 Dominique Reynolds (BYU) vs. Alesya Ignatieva (OM) 6-2, 5-7, 2-0 inc.
#4 Lu Oswald (BYU) def. Karem Harboe (OM) 6-1, 7-6
#5 Lindsay Ferrell (BYU) def. Mira Radu (OM) 4-2, inc.
#6 Elyse Jensen (BYU) vs. Audra Adams (OM) 1-1, inc.
