Saturday, January 27
New Haven, CT
11:00 AM
Quinnipiac University
at
Yale
QU Women's Tennis Kicks Off Spring Season against Yale Saturday
1/25/2018 12:07:00 PM | Women's Tennis
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (3-1, 2-0 MAAC) AT
YALE UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS (1-0, 0-0 IVY)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM
Video: Ivy League Network
Location: Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center (NEW HAVEN, CT)
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - The Quinnipiac women's tennis team looks to start off its spring portion of its 2017-18 season with a win when they travel down to the road to New Haven, Connecticut to face off against the Yale Bulldogs.
TOP STORYLINES FROM FALL 2017
YALE UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS (1-0, 0-0 IVY)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM
Video: Ivy League Network
Location: Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center (NEW HAVEN, CT)
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - The Quinnipiac women's tennis team looks to start off its spring portion of its 2017-18 season with a win when they travel down to the road to New Haven, Connecticut to face off against the Yale Bulldogs.
TOP STORYLINES FROM FALL 2017
- The Bobcats dominated their first two MAAC matchup of the year, beating the Rider Broncs, 7-0 and Saint Peter's, 7-0.
- Three-time MAAC Coach of the Year, Paula Miller, announced Proyfon Lohaphaisan (Santa Clarita, California) and Amy Zammarieh (Trumbull, Connecticut) as the captains of the Quinnipiac women's tennis team for 2018.
- Quinnipiac women's tennis team was a unanimous decision as the favorite to win the 2017-18 MAAC Championships.
- Jennifer Lu (Cypress, California) is 9-5 on the season and 7-3 in doubles matches.
- Lu also scored a victory in the Singles A bracket, 6-4,1-6,12-10, before falling in the quarterfinals.
- Lu also competed in the 2017 Oracle/ ITA Masters at the Malibu Racquet Club in Malibu, California. Lu fell to the top-seeded competitor in the field, Ena Shibahara of UCLA, and also competed in mixed doubles with Javier Restrepo from Marist.
- Early in the 2017-18 season, Lu won two straight consolation brackets in A singles at the Stony Brook and Quinnipiac Invitationals. Lu and Visale also made it to the finals of the Doubles A Tournament at the Quinnipiac Invitational before falling 7-5 in the championship match to Fordham's No. 1 doubles team.
- Layla Rodriguez (Rancho Santa Margarita, California) is 8-5 on the year.
- Lu and Rodriguez participated in the Hofstra Invitational.
- The duo combined for three wins over the weekend, including two wins in the Doubles A bracket to advance to the Finals.
- One of their victories came over including a victory over Fordham's Carina Ma and Estelle Wong, 7-6 (8-3). Ma and Wong were undefeated to start the 2017-18 season until being defeated by Lu and Rodriguez.
- Lohaphaisan advanced to the semifinals in two invitationals during the fall portion of the season.
- Lohaphaisan is tied for second on the team with eight wins so far this season in singles play.
- Lohaphaisan also has collected three wins in doubles play.
- Scarlett Blydenburgh( Chatham, New Jersey) and Zammarieh Scored a perfect 6-0 victory over Rider in doubles play
- Blydenburgh is 6-3 on the year so far.
- Zammarieh is 3-5 on the season.
- Payton Bradley (Downingtown, Pennsylvania) is 6-6 overall and the freshman obtained two victories in her first MAAC matchup of the year. She picked up a victory in doubles competition with Dominique Vasile (Bingham Farms, Michigan), 6-1.
- The duo also made an appearance at the ITA Regionals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Vasile picked up a victory over Khan (TU) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
- Vasile is now 5-2 on the season.
- Vasile picked up three victories to win the B Singles Consolation bracket at the Army West Point Invitational, defeating Michal Matson from Seton Hall, 8-2, in the championship.
- Stephanie Yanosov (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) scored a 6-2, 6-0 victory in singles play against Rider.
- Yanosov is 2-3 in her freshman-year campaign.
- Rounding out the freshman, Courtney Nash (Andover, Massachusetts) delivered a perfect 6-0, 6-0 victory in singles play and is 7-4 on the season.
- Quinnipiac has won the last four MAAC Championships since joining the league in the 2013-14 season. The Bobcats have still never lost a MAAC match, going a combined 40-0 in the last four years in both the regular season and postseason. There have been some stern challenges along the way, including a comeback 4-3 win over Marist in the 2016 MAAC Championship match, and a narrow 4-2 win over Siena in last season's finals.
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