SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Berkeley, Calif.) – The Santa Clara women's tennis team competed in the first day of the Cal Nike Fall Invitational in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday. Seven players on the Bronco roster had the opportunity to showcase their talents in the first matches of the 2014-15 preseason. The second day of the tournament continues Saturday with more singles and doubles matches highlighting the Broncos.
In the White Doubles draw, senior Elaine Chesoni matched up with UC Davis's Claire Meunier to compete in doubles against Anne Susdorf of Fresno and Gen McCloskey. Chesoni and her Davis partner fell 8-2.
Two Santa Clara duos participated in the Gold doubles round of 16. Junior Chelby Cooke and freshman Zeina El Tawil went up against No. 4 seed Blaga Delic and Sheila Morales of Nevada but came up short 8-5. Junior Delphine Rouvillois paired with newcomer Danielle Zinn and were barely edged by Ana Loaiza and Tori Trylovich of Sacramento.
On the singles side, Cooke tallied a strong first win of the fall preseason with a three-set victory over Arizona State's Joanna Smith, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Cooke then advanced to the Blue round of 16 where she faced No. 3 seed from Cal, Maegan Manasse, but fell in two sets, 6-2, 6-0.
Newcomer sophomore Nabila Farah performed well in the Gold singles bracket. She defeated fellow West Coast Conference competitor Parminder Kaur of Saint Mary's, 6-3, 6-1. In the next round of 16, Farah could not top No. 2 seed Cessi Estlander of the host team Cal.
El Tawil bounced back in the consolation round of the Gold singles draw getting her first collegiate win over Davis's Kristy Jorgenson. El Tawil went down in the first set 2-6 and came back in the second set winning the tiebreaker 7-6(4). They played a third set tiebreak where the Cairo, Egypt native won by a score of 1-0(6).
All final matches will take place on Sunday.
Matches played on Fri., Sept. 26:
ITA White Doubles -- Round of 16
FS Anne Susdorf/USF Gen. McCloskey d. DAV Claire Meunier/SC Elaine Chesoni 8-2
ITA Blue Singles -- Round of 32
SC Chelby Cooke d. ASU Joanna Smith 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
ASU Gussie O'Sullivan d. SC Delphine Rouvillois 6-1, 7-6 (4)
ITA Blue Singles -- Round of 16
CAL Maegan Manasse[3] d. SC Chelby Cooke 6-2, 6-0
ITA Blue Singles Consolations -- Round 1
SJ Gaelle Rey d. SC Delphine Rouvillois 6-3, 7-5
ITA White Singles -- Round of 32
DAV Kamila Kecki d. SC Elaine Chesoni 6-3, 7-5
BYU Brittanie Eraso d. SC Riley Morgan 6-4, 6-3
ITA Gold Doubles -- Round of 16
NEV Blaga Delic[4]/Sheila Morales[4] d. SC Chelby Cooke/Zeina El Tawil 8-5
SAC Ana Loaiza/Tori Trylovich d. SC Danielle Zinn/Delphine Rouvillois 8-5
ITA Gold Singles -- Round of 32
CP Molly Reed[7] d. SC Danielle Zinn 6-0, 6-4
CAL Lyann Hoang d. SC Zeina El Tawil 6-3, 6-4
SC Nabila Farah d. SM Parminder Kaur 6-3, 6-1
ITA Gold Singles -- Round of 16
CAL Cessi Estlander[2] d. SC Nabila Farah 7-5, 6-4
ITA Gold Singles Consolations -- Round 1
FS Anne Susdorf d. SC Danielle Zinn 6-0, 6-1
SC Zeina El Tawil d. DAV Kristy Jorgenson 2-6, 7-6(4), 1-0(6)
Check back into SantaClaraBroncos.com and the Cal Nike Invite website over the weekend for all the results and draws.
GO BRONCOS!
