Jan. 6, 2012
Manoa, Hawaii -
The Penn State women's tennis team (0-2, 0-0) put up a good fight against the sixth-ranked Baylor Bears (1-0) but eventually lost, 5-2. Four different Nittany Lions picked up wins for Penn State.
No. 96 Petra Januskova (Ottawa, Canada) pulled out a resounding victory against fourteenth-ranked Diana Nakic, 6-2, 6-3. Fernanda Perrotta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) also picked up a singles point for the Nittany Lions, defeating Doris Llamas in convincing fashion, 6-1, 6-1.
In the singles second slot Carmen Sandor (Toronto, Canada) fell to Nina Secerbegovic, 5-7, 1-6. Chelsea Utting (Peachtree City, Ga.) got off to a good start, winning 7-5, but gave up the last two to fall Sona Novakova, 1-6, 2-6. Marie-Frederique Bedard (Montreal, Canada) was uphanded by Jordaan Sanford, 1-6, 1-6. In the number five singles match, Nina Sertic (Zagrab, Croatia) won the first set, 6-4, but eventually fell to Megan Horter in the last two, 3-6, 4-6.
In doubles action, Sandor/Utting decisively upended the duo of Llamas of Horter, 8-0. In the first doubles slot Januskova and Sertic lost to Nakic/Novakova, 8-4. In the number two match Perrotta/Bedard were defeated by Secerbegovic/Sanford, 8-4.
The Nittany Lions return to Happy Valley for four straight home matches at the Sarni Tennis Center. Penn State will host a doubleheader versus UMBC and Lehigh on Sat., Jan. 21 starting at 11 a.m. The Nittany Lions will face rival Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. on Sun., Jan. 29 and will open Big Ten play Tues., Feb. 7 against Ohio State at 3 p.m.
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