Women’s Tennis Downs Hampton 6-1 in Season Opener

Saturday, January 12

Hampton, Va.

5:00 PM

Temple University

Hampton

Photo by: Zamani Feelings

Women’s Tennis Downs Hampton 6-1 in Season Opener

1.12.19 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

NORFOLK, Va.— Temple women's tennis opened up its 2019 slate in a dominant fashion, notching a 6-1 victory over Hampton.

Notes
> The Owls are 1-0 in the 2019 season after defeating the Hampton Pirates in Norfolk, Va.
> Temple had a strong showing in doubles play, sweeping Hampton. The pairs of Chunan Xiang/Ruoyu Chen and Alice Patch/Oyku Boz both downed their opponents, 6-2. The duo of Kristina Titova/Stefaniya Surikova prevailed 6-0.
> The team followed its doubles performance with impressive singles play, only dropping one match to the Pirates. Yining Tian and Boz each defeated their opponents, 6-0, 6-0. Xiang clinched her match 4-6, 6-0, 6-0 over Hampton's Cherise Slocombe and Cecilia Castelli dominated her opponent 6-1, 6-1. Patch came out on top over Haley Mullins, 6-3, 6-2.

Results
Doubles
Xiang/Chen def. Kapitanova/Ljungman, 6-2
Patch/Boz def. Slocombe/d'Auvergne, 6-2
Titova/Surikova def. Walker/Mullins, 6-0

Singles
Yulia Kapitanova def. Oleksandra Doroshenko, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
Chunan Xiang def. Cherise Slocombe, 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
Cecilia Castelli def. Viktoria Ljungman, 6-1, 6-1
Alice Patch def. Haley Mullins, 6-3, 6-2
Yining Tian def. Julia d'Avergne, 6-0, 6-0
Oyku Boz def. Caira Walker, 6-0, 6-0

Next Up
> Temple will round out its road trip to Virginia as they take on Old Dominion on Sunday, Jan. 13. The Owls will face the Monarchs at 10 a.m.