Results
 
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team earned a quality 5-2 non-conference victory over West Virginia State University Sunday.
 
The win, The Rock's second in their last three matches, improves SRU's record to 7-6 on the year overall while the Yellow Jackets drop to 6-5. Slippery Rock returned to its winning ways by taking two of three doubles matches followed by four singles contests en route to the Atlantic Region triumph.
 
Slippery Rock and West Virginia State opened Sunday's match by trading matching 6-2 doubles wins from the first and third flights as Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez and Teddi Isherwood downed Tuva Wallin and Amanda Thomasson while Chante Malo and Emily Moore bettered SRU's Dari Sakhanova and Tina Slovak.
 
The Rock went on to take the team doubles point with a 6-4 win from the second flight by Nuria Martin Lopez and Gabriela del Val del Toro against Maya Haidari and Malena Hernandez.
 
Gonzalez Sanchez and Isherwood have now won seven of their last 10 matches while Martin Lopez and del Val del Toro improved their overall record in 2022-23 to 14-9 with their win.
 
Slippery Rock built on its doubles success by posting four straight singles wins to clinch the team victory.
 
Slovak secured the first singles point by defeating Julia Daszkiewicz in the fifth flight. Slovak won the opening set 6-2 before Daszkiewicz retired trailing 3-0 in the second.
 
del Val del Toro was then a 6-2, 6-0 winner against Haidari in the second flight with Martin Lopez following by providing the match-deciding point via a 6-2, 6-1 fourth-flight win versus Malo.
 
Martin Lopez and del Val del Toro both exit the weekend with personal three-match winning streaks and respective singles records this season of 14-10 and 20-5.
 
SRU's final point of the day came courtesy of Georgie Lancaster, who earned a 6-4, 6-1 win against Moore out of the sixth flight.
 
West Virginia State was able to earn victories in the final two singles matches to finish Sunday and avoid the shutout. Thomasson defeated Sakhanova in three sets 6-3, 1-6, 10-6 from the third set while Wallin narrowly edged Gonzalez Sanchez in the top flight 6-4, 4-6, 10-7.
 
Slippery Rock is currently scheduled to return to Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division competition 4 p.m. April 5 at Edinboro.  
 
 
 
 
 
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