NORMAL, IL – Bradley Tennis saw two of its four doubles teams and four of its nine singles players advance to Saturday's semifinal round at the Redbird Invite in Normal this afternoon.
Bradley's first two Doubles Flights to take the court won, with the freshman-senior pairing of
Kirstin Hailey/
Sandra Maletin taking an 8-3 win over Chicago State.
Madalena Andrade/Maria Bezmenova continued the Braves' success when they won 8-6 against IUPUI.
Bozana Lojpur was granted a walkover victory at Flight 2. Hailey continued her fantastic start as Brave, securing a 6-2, 7-5 win against Amanda Tabanera of Valparaiso.
Nikki Perlwitz made quick work of Marquette's Elizabeth Ferdman 6-0, 6-1.
Kinga Kovacs saw her first match action in nearly two years. Playing at Flight 9, she pulled out a 7-6(5) 3-6 10-6 victory against Susana Andres of Chicago State.
The Braves will be back in action tomorrow for the semifinal round.
Full Results
Flight 1 Doubles:
Kirstin Hailey/
Sandra Maletin def. Katarina Drazic/Kristina Pukhaeva (CSU) 8-3
Flight 2 Doubles:
Madalena Andrade/
Maria Bezmenova def. Meghan Bernard/Samantha Hayward (IUPUI) 8-6
Flight 3 Doubles: Sylwia Mikos/ S. Guo (Chicago) def.
Bozana Lojpur/
Nikki Perlwitz 8-5.
Flight 4 Doubles: Park/Lee (Chicago)
Nina Marjanovic/
Juliana Martinez
Flight 1 Singles: Sylwia Mikos (Chicago) def.
Sandra Maletin (BU) 4-6, 0-6
Flight 2 Singles:
Bozana Lojpur (BU) def. Gabrielle Ochalik (IUPUI) WALKOVER
Flight 3 Singles: Lauren Park (Chicago) def.
Madalena Andrade (BU) 7-5 2-6 10-8
Flight 4 Singles:
Kirstin Hailey (BU) def. Amanda Tabanera (VU) 6-2 7-5
Flight 5 Singles: Nicole Geller (Chicago) def.
Maria Bezmenova (BU) 7-5 3-6 10-6
Flight 6 Singles:
Nikki Perlwitz (BU) def. Elizebeth Ferdman (MU) 6-0, 6-1
Flight 8 Singles: Samanatha Hayward (IUPUI) def.
Nina Marjanovic (BU) 0-6 4-6
Flight 9 Singles:
Kinga Kovacs (BU) def. Susana Andres 7-6(5) 3-6, 10-3, Ines Rivera def.
Juliana Martinez (BU) 3-6, 0-6