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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015
PAGE 12
ADVANTAGE JAYHAWKS
Kansas defeats Iowa to remain perfect at home
JACOB CLEMEN
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Kansas tennis picked up its second home win of the year Monday defeating the unranked Iowa Hawkeyes 4-1.
The Jayhawks started the day strong, jumping out to an early lead with two quick doubles wins. On court three, the freshman pair of Alexis Czapinski and Summer Collins won handily. The Jayhawks got an early 5-0 lead before surrendering two games and rallying to a 6-2 win.
Shortly after, the number one pairing of junior Maria Jose Cardona and senior Maria Belen Ludueña finished tightly contested. The two teams battled back and forth in the
first four games to a 2-2 score before the Kansas pair pulled away to win 6-3 and seal the doubles point for Kansas.
The freshman duo of Smith Hinton and Madison Harrison were ahead 5-4 when the Jayhawks took the doubles point, but did not finish their match. In singles, the Hawkeyes were able to even the score at 1-1 when Iowa senior Shelby Talcott defeated Cardina 6-3, 6-2 on court one. It would be the only point for the Hawkeyes of the day.
On court three, Hinton made quick work of Anastasia Reimchen, the Hawkeye freshman, dominating her first set 6-1 and cruising to a 6-3 victory in the second set. Kansas moved ahead 2-1 with the win and
never surrendered its lead.
Ludueña was able to back up her doubles-clinching win with the match-clinching singles win for the Jayhawks. After securing a tidy first-set win 6-2, Ludueña battled with Iowa senior Morven McCulloch to a tiebreak. Neither player ever lead by two games the whole second set until Ludueña finally won 7-6(3).
Harrison was able to battle through a back-and-forth first set on court four, edging Iowa junior Annette Dohanics 7-5. Harrison then jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the second set before winning 6-2.
"I think it was big for Belen to clinch," coach Todd Chapman said. "She's had a couple close matches in a row where
she hasn't pulled out the match when she probably felt like she need to for the team and those kinds of things, especially last weekend in Colorado."
"It feels great. I know my team was expecting me to win and it feels great to do it," Ludueña said the after match. "It's not only me. I mean, I won the last one, but my teammates won before me so every point counts the same."
The win improves Kansas to a perfect 2-0 at home and 4-6 overall this season as well as 9-8 all-time versus Iowa. The
game was the first of a five- game homestand for Kansas.
"It makes us all really excited to come out here and play our next matches because we are undefeated [at home] so we're all just pretty pumped about that," Harrison said.
Meanwhile, Iowa falls to 4-4 on the season and its six-game winning streak versus Kansas is snapped. With the loss, the Hawkeyes extend their streak to four straight losses in which they failed to claim the doubles point.
"We worked really hard to
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get that sour taste out of our mouth," Chapman said. "Now it's work the next eleven days, week and a half, to really keep the momentum going. We know we got two tough tests in Texas Tech and TCU, two really good teams."
Maria Belen Ludueha, senior from Curicó, Chile, approaches a drop shot during her singles match against Iowa at the Jayhawk Tennis Center on Monday. Ludueha won her singles match 6-2, 7-6 to seal a 4-1 Kansas victory.
The Jayhawks' next matchup will be against Texas Tech in Lawrence on Friday, March 13 at 3:30 p.m. The match marks the beginning of Big 12 play for Kansas.
Edited by Kelsi Kirwin
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Madison Harrison, a freshman from Bradenton, Fla., prepares for a backhand in her singles match against Iowa. The Jayhawks came out with a 4-1 victory at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.
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Maria Jose Cardona, a junior from Santiago, Chile, winds up for a backhand return during her singles match on Monday. Cardona was defeated by Iowa's Shelby Talcott 6-3, 6-2.
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Alexis Czapinksi, a freshman from Lawrence, reaches to hit a backhand during her singles match against Iowa. Capinski and her partner freshman, Summer Collins, defeated Iowa 6-2 early in the day on Monday.
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