Full Results
 
ERIE, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team returned to its winning ways with an impressive 4-3 victory on the road against Mercyhurst University Tuesday at the Westwood Racquet Club in Erie, Pennsylvania.
 
The victory snapped The Rock's two-matching losing streak and improved SRU's record to 2-4 overall and 1-1 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division competition. Mercyhurst drops to 2-5 overall and 1-1 in league contests with the loss.
 
Tuesday's match was a back-and-forth affair that saw Slippery Rock take the doubles points before earning three singles victories from the top of its lineup en route to the victory.
 
Mercyhurst seemed poised to earn the doubles tally early as Valentine Budin and Janice Theodora opened the match with a 6-2 victory in the third flight over Lauren Fadden and Amy Varckette.
 
However, Slippery Rock responded with back-to-back wins in the first and second flights to earn the point and take a 1-0 advantage heading into the singles portion of the match.
 
Lois Page and Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez were responsible for the victory at No. 1 doubles via a solid 6-1 triumph over Ivona Plecevic and Athina Tsagkaraki followed by a 6-4 win by Olivia Warner and Gabi del Val del Toro against Emily Gordon and Naomi Jahr in the second flight.
 
The win by Warner and del Val del Toro marked Warner's 36th career victory in the second flight, tying her with Ashley Greene (2003-07) for the third highest total from that position in program history.
 
Gonzalez Sanchez continued her hot streak to begin singles play by besting Plecevic 6-1, 6-2 from the second flight. Gonzalez Sanchez has now won four straight singles matches to push her record to 4-2 in 2021.
 
Mercyhurst battled back to tie the match at 2-2 by claiming victories in the sixth and fourth flights, respectively, as Theodora got the best of Varckette 6-3, 6-1 and Budin defeated Warner 7-6, 6-1.
 
However, the tie was short-lived as Slippery Rock clinched the match by way of consecutive victories from the third and first flights.
 
del Val del Toro gave Slippery Rock its third point of the day courtesy of a 7-6, 6-1 victory against Tsagkaraki in what was her fourth win on the young season.
 
Page proceeded to seal the victory Slippery Rock by beating Jahr with a tight 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 decision in a contest that featured two of the top players in the Atlantic Region. Like Gonzalez Sanchez and del Val del Toro, Page's win on Tuesday improved her season record to 4-2.
 
While it had no bearing on the overall result, Alana Lewis was able to narrowly edge Fadden in the fifth flight 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.
 
Slippery Rock will host West Virginia State University 4 p.m. Friday at the SRU Tennis Courts for a non-conference matchup between Atlantic Region powers.
 
 

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