University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
Atlantic 10 Championships
Women's Tennis Seeks Second-Straight A-10 Title Sunday
04/25/2010 | Women's Tennis
April 25, 2010
SAINT LOUS, Mo. -
Defending champion Richmond defeated Temple 4-1 in the A-10 semifinal round to return to its second conference championship game. The second-seeded Spiders square off against No. 5 GW at 8:00 a.m. Sunday.
The Spiders had no problem turning away Temple as they first swept the doubles point as Erin Clark/Helen Cunningham and Sydney Grant/Joanna Matuszczyk each notched wins.
The singles point was no different, as Richmond's No. 1 through No. 3 singles recorded straight set wins.
Richmond moved to 2-0 against Temple this year, after already recording a 5-2 victory earlier in the season.
Richmond seeks its sixth A-10 crown in the last seven years, but will have work to do Sunday as GW served the Spiders their only conference loss, 4-3 in February.
No. 2 Richmond 4, No. 3 Temple 1
Singles competition
1. Erin Clark (UR) def. Josephine Bergman (TU) 6-1, 6-0
2. Kelly Tidwell (UR) def. A. Rukavyshnykova (TU) 6-2, 6-2
3. Helen Cunningham (UR) def. Lucie Pazderova (TU) 6-4, 6-3
4. Sydney Grant (UR) vs. Theresa Stangl (TU) 6-4, 2-5, unfinished
5. May Johnson (TU) def. Joanna Matuszczyk (UR) 6-3, 6-1
6. Isabel Arana (UR) vs. Katharina Mittag (TU) 3-6, 0-3, unfinished
Doubles competition
1. Erin Clark/Helen Cunningham (UR) def. Josephine Bergman/Katharina Mittag (TU) 8-6
2. Kelly Tidwell/Isabel Arana (UR) vs. A. Rukavyshnykova/Lucie Pazderova (TU) 4-7, unfinished
3. Sydney Grant/Joanna Matuszczyk (UR) def. Theresa Stangl/May Johnson (TU) 8-4
Match Notes:
A-10 Championship semifinal
