Oregon tennis
remains perfect
over weekend
The Oregon men and women
maintain strong records with
solid doubles and singles play
By Alex Tam
Freelance Reporter
Both of the Oregon tennis teams are
continuing their terrific starts to the
season by staying undefeated through
Sunday.
The men, coming off a 5-2 victory
and carried that momentum into
their singles efforts to defeat Pacific, 6
1, at the Student Tennis Center on
Sunday.
The Ducks (4-0 overall) have yet
to lose a doubles match this season
and improved their dual doubles
match record to 12-0. Singles play
has been led by juniors Sven Swin
nen and Manuel Kost, who both
have undefeated dual match singles
records.
Pacific played without Arnar Sig
urdsson, the Tigers' No. 1 player,
due to his commitment to Iceland's
Davis Cup team. Kost also did not
compete Sunday due to a stomach
injury.
Swinnen, who played at the No. 1
singles position and holds a 4-0 sin
gles record, played well enough to
beat the Tigers' Lennart Maack in
straight sets, 6-4, 6-3.
"I think I played pretty good,"
Swinnen said. "I won on (Saturday),
but I did not feel good. I felt much
better (Sunday)." At the No. 2 posi
tion, sophomore Thomas Bieri domi
nated Vladimir Zdravkovic, winning
five straight games in the first set to
win 6-1, 6-3.
In the closest match of the day,
freshman Eric Pickard overcame a 4-0
deficit in the third set tiebreaker to tri
umph to a 6-2,4-6, 1-0 (11-9) victory.
On Saturday, Oregon handed
Louisiana- Lafayette another loss with
a 5-2 win.
"Overall, it was a good perform
ance," assistant coach Ross Duncan
said. "We started things off well in
doubles and that carried over into
singles."
Swinnen prevailed in three sets to
Ragin' Cajuns sophomore Evghenii
over Brigham
Thursday, dis
played strong
doubles play
once again
Coruneau, 6-3,4-6,6-4.
Kost, who jumped up one spot in
the lineup to No. 3, easily took care of
second-year Robin Ley, 6-2,6-1.
Straight set victories by sopho
mores Marcus Schiller and Arron
Spencer rounded out the singles field.
In doubles, Swinnen and Spencer
teamed up to beat a.pair of South
Africa natives, Ley and freshman
Shaun Ellison, 8-5 at the No. 1
position.
Oregon will continue action on
Saturday as they host Idaho at the Stu
dent Tennis Center.
Women improve to 3-0
The Oregon women mirrored
their male counterparts by produc
ing strong doubles play leading to
tough singles play in a recurring
theme for the year. The women de
feated visiting Colorado, 7-0, on
Saturday.
The Ducks (3-0) swept the doubles
portion of the dual match by losing
only five games in three matches to
improve their doubles dual record to
9-0. Junior Daria Panova and senior
Courtney Nagle led the way by defeat
ing the Colorado's Kendra Strandemo
and Morgan Sail, 8-1.
"It was great to see our doubles
teams maintain a high level for the
third straight time," Oregon assistant
coach Kathy Sell said. "Everyone was
ready to compete (Saturday) and it
showed across the board."
Panova, ranked eighth in the
country, led the way by easily han
dling Lynzee Kever, 6-0, 6-3. At the
No. 2 position, freshman Domini
ka Dieskova was impressive in her
defeat of Kendra Standemo,
6-3, 6-1.
Oregon lost only one set in the en
tire dual match, which occurred in the
longest and most thrilling match of
the night when sophomore Anna
Leksinska beat Martina Sedivec in
three sets, 4-6,6-3,10-8.
The Ducks will like to see their
strong play continue and have no let
downs as the season progresses.
"It is important for us to play
with a lot of discipline and to use
each match to get better," Sell said.
"So far the girls are doing a great
job of this."
Oregon will next host a double
header against Portland and Boise
State on Friday.
Alex Tam is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
TIRED
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time this season with 19 points, scor
ing 16 in the first half. Freshman
Eleanor Haring tied her career-high
with 14 points. Haring also added five
offensive rebounds and four steals in
the losing effort.
Sophomore Chelsea Wagner, play
ing on a tom lateral meniscus in her
left knee, scored two points in 15
minutes of play. In the win against
UCLA, she led the Ducks with 17
points, but Saturday she missed both
her three-point attempts.
"She's going to have her mo
ments where that knee is not going
to respond as she would like it be
cause it is an injured knee," Smith
said. "She's very important for us,
both offensively and defensively. I
think Mike McNeill said it in the
locker room, he was very impressed
with Chelsea and her effort and her
determination to help the team
when she can."
Point guard Corrie Mizusawa en
tered the game at No. 10 all-time on
the single-season assists leaders list
with 132 in 20 games. The junior, in
her first season playing for Oregon,
added 8 assists to move up to No. 7
on the list, passing Shaquala
Williams' freshman and junior sea
sons as well as passing Sheila Sat
tiewhite's 1987-88 season.
"We've got a lot of people dinged
up and we're a little bit tired, but so
is everyone else," Smith said. "We're
going to take a couple days off as we
head back to Eugene, get everybody
rested and everybody feeling a little
bit better about themselves physical
ly, so that if mentally we ask our
selves to do something aggressive,
we'll be ready."
The Ducks now have the week to
prepare for the second Civil War of
the season, Saturday at 7 p.m. in
Corvallis.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
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