Alexandra Mircea Takes No. 5 Singles as QU Women's Tennis Falls to UConn, 6-1

Tuesday, October 6

Hamden, Conn.

3 PM

Quinnipiac University

University of Connecticut

Alexandra Mircea Takes No. 5 Singles as QU Women's Tennis Falls to UConn, 6-1

10/6/2015 6:54:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: QU Sports Information

HAMDEN, Conn. – Freshman Alexandra Mircea (Glen Rock, New Jersey) picked up the only of the afternoon on Tuesday to lead the Quinnipiac women's tennis team in a 6-1 loss to the UConn Huskies.

Mircea won her matchup at No. 5 singles against UConn's Zaina Zaki to move into a tie with fellow freshman Proyfon Lohaphaisan (Santa Clarita, California) for the most singles wins on the team with three. Mircea is also third on the team in overall wins with nine on the season.

The Huskies (2-0, 0-0 AAC) swept all three doubles matches to take the doubles point and jump out to a 1-0 lead. Mircea and Adrian Young (Orange Village, Ohio) took on UConn's Shea Flanagan and Zaki but the Huskies' duo pulled away late to win, 6-4. With one match in the books, the next two matches were tight and up for grabs but Sophia Dzulynsky (Miramar, Florida) and Jennifer Lu (Cypress, California) came up just short against Emma Alderman and Yelyzaveta Pletnyeva, 6-4.

In the final completed doubles match was a tiebreaker battle between the Bobcats' Rachel Horton (Stamford, Connecticut) and Lohaphaisan and the Huskies' Srna Stosljevic and Jacquelyn Fitz-Randolph. Horton and Lohaphaisan had come back to force the tiebreaker set, but ultimately fell, 7-6 (5).

After dropping the first set to Zaki in singles play, Mircea stormed back in the second set to win convincingly and force a third set, which after a lengthy battle, Mircea came out on top, 4-6, 6-2, 11-9.

The Bobcats (0-1, 0-0 MAAC) competed hard in singles play and put up a solid effort despite the loss. Horton competed in the longest match of the afternoon for the Bobcats at No. 4 singles, falling in two sets with tiebreakers in both. Horton took on Fitz-Randolph the two were back and forth afternoon long, with Fitz-Randolph coming away with the win, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (2). After getting blanked in the first set against Pletnyeva, Lohaphaisan came back to force a tiebreaker in the second set of her No. 3 singles match but could not force a third, falling 6-0, 7-6 (3). Dzulynsky also nearly came away with a first set win over Stosljevic at No. 1 singles but lost in two sets, 7-5, 6-0.

Also in singles action, Lu took on Alderman at No. 2 singles for the Bobcats and fell in two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Young rounded out the starting six for the Bobcats at No. 6 singles, taking on Flanagan and also falling in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.

The Quinnipiac women's tennis team returns to action on Wednesday, Oct. 7 with a 3 P.M. match against the Sacred Heart Pioneers at the QU Outdoor Tennis Courts.

Doubles:
Stosljevic/Fitz-Randolph (UConn) def. Horton/Lohaphaisan (QU): 7-6 (5)
Alderman/Pletnyeva (UConn) def. Dzulynsky/Lu (QU): 6-4
Flanagan/Zaki (UConn) def. Mircea/A. Young (QU): 6-4

Singles:
Stosljevic (UConn) def. Dzulynsky (QU): 7-5, 6-0
Alderman (UConn) def. Lu (QU): 6-3, 6-2
Pletnyeva (UConn) def. Lohaphaisan (QU): 6-0, 7-6 (3)
Fitz-Randolph (UConn) def. Horton (QU): 7-6 (7), 7-6 (2)
Mircea (QU) def. Zaki (UConn): 4-6, 6-2, 11-9
Flanagan (UConn) def. A. Young (QU): 6-2, 6-2