LYNCHBURG, Va.-- The Penn State women's tennis team completed day one of ITA Atlantic Regionals, highlighted by two doubles wins and a win in singles. The doubles main draw began today, as well as the qualifying singles draw.
"It was good to get Regionals started today," said head coach Chris Cagle. "We saw some areas that we did really well in today and also some other areas that we will work on improving tomorrow. One major goal for tomorrow, is having a complete team effort with everyone that steps on the court. My definition of a complete effort is being mentally and physically ready to compete and navigating your way through the challenges that present themselves on match day. If we do that up and down the lineup, then the wins and losses will take care of themselves and we will continue to be moving in the right direction. I look forward to seeing our team compete tomorrow!"
Singles
Olivia Rohrbacher (Sandusky, Ohio) kicked off play for the Nittany Lions in qualifying singles. Rohrbacher took on University of Pittsburgh's Camila Moreno, falling 7-6(3), 6-0. In the back draw, Rohrbacher came from behind to knock off University of Richmond's Dessi Zlateva, 6-7(4), 6-1, 10-0.
Doubles
Rohrbacher and Frederikke Svarre (Copenhagen, Denmark) defeated the University of Maryland's Zoe Kulkarni and Anastasiia Geve, 8-4. Their round of 32 matchup against George Washington's Maria Siopacha and Melis Bayrataroglu will be tomorrow at 1 p.m.
Gabby O'Gorman (Gunnedah, N.S. Wales, Australia) and Chelsea Sawyer (Clemmons, N.C.) fell to Sydney Green and Brianna Gibbs of George Mason in a tight match, 8-7(5).
Olivia Ryan (Victoria, Australia) and Sydney Weinberg (Winchester, Mass.) defeated Victoria Kogan and Elena Schneider of George Washington, 8-6. They will take on the No. 3 seeded University of Virginia duo, Amber O'Dell and Chloe Gullickso, tomorrow at 1 p.m.
Samantha Smith (Cary, N.C.) and Shannon Hanley (Kensington, Md.) had a bye in the round of 64, and will hit the court tomorrow in the round of 32.
The singles main draw gets started tomorrow with O'Gorman, Smith, Hanley, Svarre and Sawyer all hitting the courts.
Full results from day one are available here.
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