BLESZYNSKI DEFEATED IN NCAA FINAL.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Duke's Vanessa Webb became the first non-Pac-10 or Southern Conference player to win the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association women's singles title since its inception in 1982 when she defeated Stanford's Ania Bleszynski, a Harvard-Westlake alumna, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday in South Bend South Bend, city (1990 pop. 105,511), seat of St. Joseph co., N Ind., on the great south bend of the St. Joseph River, in a farming and mint-growing region; inc. as a city 1865. , Ind.Webb broke Bleszyski's serve in the 10th game of the second set to claim the title and earn a wild-card spot in the U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
In doubles, Florida's top-seeded and two-time defending champions Dawn Bush and Stephanie Nickitas lost their bid to become the first doubles duo to win three straight, falling 7-5, 6-3 to Cal's Amanda Augustus and Amy Jensen. Men's top seed ousted Oklahoma State's Pavel Kudrnac was upset by Virginia Commonwealth's Daniel Anderson in the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships - the third consecutive year the No. 1 seed failed to advance past the quarterfinals. Anderson beat Kudrnac 6-4, 6-4 in one of two upsets at the University of Georgia's Magill Tennis Center. Georgia's John Roddick defeated No. 7 Robert Samuelsson of Tulane, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (12-10). Roddick nearly retired from the match in the third set with severe cramps but was cheered on in the tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie by the pro-Georgia crowd. In other quarterfinals matches, No. 4 Paul Goldstein of Stanford defeated No. 5 Thomas Dupre of Mississippi State, 7-5, 0-6, 6-1, and Stanford's Bob Bryan also advanced to the semifinals with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory over Pac-10 rival George Bastl of USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , who reached the final last year. In second-round doubles matches, UCLA's Matt Breen and Jean-Noel Grinda defeated Texas' Nick Crowell and Paul Martin 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Also, Pepperdine's Kelly Gullett and Robert Lindstedt came back to beat Notre Dame's Brian Patterson and Jakub Pietrowski 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion