Feb. 19, 2010

West Point, N.Y. - Stony Brook University's women's tennis team won its sixth straight match on Friday night, defeating Fairleigh Dickinson, 4-3. The Seawolves improved to 8-1 with the victory.

Stony Brook started the match out by easily earning the doubles point. Senior Paola Rodolfi (Asuncion, Paraguay) and sophomore Prerana Appineni (Hyderabad, India) won, 8-1, at No. 1 while sophomore Anna Pieschl (Gothenburg, Sweden) and freshman Aylin Mehter (Massapequa, N.Y.) coasted to an 8-3 victory at No. 2. At No. 3, junior Fanny Charliquart (Gueugnon, France) and sophomore Salome Mkervalidze (Brewster, N.Y.) breezed to an 8-4 win.

Fairleigh Dickinson won three of the top four singles matches with Pieschl claiming the only victory for the Seawolves as she defeated Julia Prantl at No. 3, 0-6, 7-5, 6-2. Rodolfi and Appineni each lost tough three-setters at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, with Rodolfi losing 7-4 in a third-set tiebreak.

But the Seawolves dominated at the No. 5 and No. 6 spots, dropping just two combined games, to earn their sixth straight victory. Freshman Nini Lagvilava (Tbilisi, Georgia) won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 5, while junior Gayatri Krishnan (Chennai, India) did not lose a game in defeating Jessica DeCarlos.

Stony Brook returns to action on March 13, when they will travel to take on Cornell.

Stony Brook 4, Fairleigh Dicksinson 3
Doubles
1. Rodolfi/Appineni (SBU) def. Korsunova/Botes (FDU), 8-1
2. Pieschl/Mehter (SBU) def. Prantl/Morina (FDU), 8-3
3. Charliquart/Mkervalidze (SBU) def. Chernyshova/Ferhatbegovic (FDU), 8-4

Singles
1. Julia Korsunova (FDU) def. Paola Rodolfi (SBU), 6-2,1-6, 7-6 (7-4)
2. Elmine Botes (FDU) def. Prerana Appineni (SBU), 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4
3. Anna Pieschl (SBU) def. Julia Prantl (FDU), 0-6, 7-5, 6-2
4. Egzona Morina (FDU) def. Katherine Hanson (SBU), 7-5, 6-2
5. Nini Lagvilava (SBU) def. Ksenia Chernyshova (FDU), 6-1, 6-1
6. Gayatri Krishnan (SBU) def. Jessica DeCarlos, 6-0, 6-0