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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, OCTOER 26, 2009
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TENNIS
Sophomore alessandra Dzuba returns a shot Sunday morning against Iowa State during a doubles match at First Serve Tennis Complex. Dzuba and her partner, junior Kate Goff, recorded their first victory of the season as doubles partners.
Jayhawks wrap up season Off-season will provide team with time to focus
BY ANDREW POSCH
aposch@kansan.com
Alie Dzuba hung her head as she walked off the court after losing in three close sets to Ana Gomez Almaso of FC Barcelona.
Kansas State. The last weekend of play for the fall tennis season ended with an air of disappointment for Kansas.
The Jayhawks competed in two weekend tournaments - the
"Some games we played well,but I don't think we put the package together for this tournament."
Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional tournament in Norman, Okla., and the KU Invitational at First Serve — and came out with a combined 11-19 record. Other than a 3-2 performance by junior Maria Martinez at the KU tournament, no team member posted a winning record.
In Norman, the doubles teams of Sara Lazarevic and Ekaterina Morozova and Erin Wilbert and Victoria Khanevskaya both opened play Thursday with first round losses. But both duos recovered from the early deficits and won their consolation rounds against
On the singles side, sophomores Wilbert and Morozova recorded victories in the first round and then were eliminated in the second. Despite losing in the first round.
Wichita State University and Saint Louis University.
AMY HALL-HOLT Tennis coach
freshman Lazarevic bounced back to win two consolation rounds against Minnesota and Saint Louis. She nearly got through the quarterfinals of the back draw, but a three-set loss to Oklahoma ended her run.
"Some games we played well, but I don't think we put the package together for this tournament,"
coach Amy Hall Holt said.
Maybe the team didn't finish as well as she hoped, but she was quick to point out that she wasn't discouraged.
"We did some really good things at regional, but
we still have a lot of growing to 40," Hall-Holt said. "Now the girls
"We saw some good things and some things we need to work on."
GERMAN DALMAGRO Assistant coach
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A second-round singles victory landed Martinez in the semifinal round of her bracket, but a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Missouri kept her from continuing.
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Play in Lawrence had its ups and downs. On a high note, Martinez kicked off the first day of competition with both a singles and doubles victory. After cruising to a 6-0, 6-2 victory against University of Missouri-Kansas City, she paired up with senior Kuni Dorn to dominate through a duo from Abilene Christian University, 8-2.
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in the singles bracket. She began Friday with a three-set loss to Abilene Christian, and then suffered an elbow injury in the consolation round Saturday, which kept her from playing any more matches. She spent the rest of the weekend cheering for
her teammates on the sidelines.
"The weekend was positive," Dalmagro said. "We saw some good things and some things we need to work on. It gave us a perspective of where we are and where we need to be. Now we can look forward to the off-season and work hard on individual improvement to get ready for the spring."
The other Jayhawk doubles team of junior Kate Goff and Dzuba tallied one victory together, but it took three tries to achieve it. The first two days resulted in losses to New Mexico and Abeline Christian, but they battled back to defeat Iowa State 8-4 Sunday.
It took three sets for Ana Gomez Aleman to defeat Dzuba, and each one was close. The rest of the Kansas team was already finished and supported Dzuba from the side of the court, but Aleman eventually prevailed to earn a 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 victory.
With three months of off-season ahead of it, the squad will now have some time to focus on that improvement. The Jayhawks will open their spring season Jan. 30 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Singles play for Dzuba gave her a taste of what might be to come during spring conference play. Besides one match against New Mexico, her other three matchups were against Big 12 opponents — one from Iowa State and two from in-state rival Kansas State.
"It got the team cheering for me," Dzuba said of the long match. "She was a good player and just stepped it up."
When it was all said and done, assistant coach German Dalmagro had critical, yet supportive thoughts about the tournament.
The Wildcats prevailed both times, the last one being the final fall match for the lavahawks.
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