Women's Tennis Downs Delaware, 5-2

Thursday, March 7

Philadelphia, Pa.

1:00 p.m.

Temple University

Delaware

Photo by: Zamani Feelings

Women's Tennis Downs Delaware, 5-2

3.7.19 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA—The Temple women's tennis team (6-2, 0-0 AAC) continued its perfect home record (4-0) Thursday afternoon as it defeated Delaware 5-2 at the Legacy Tennis Center.

Notes
> Temple swept all three doubles matches to earn the doubles point. The pair of Alice Patch and Oyku Boz improved to 6-2 on the season and Ruoyu Chen and Chunan Xiang moved to 5-2.
> The team won four of the six singles matches to defeat the Blue Hens.
> The Owls clinched the match after victories from Kristina Titova at third singles, Yining Tian at sixth singles and Xiang at fourth singles. These wins gave Temple the 4-0 advantage.
> Delaware came out on top in the No. 2 spot. Chen edged out her Blue Hen opponent in a three-set contest at first singles and Delaware won at fifth singles to bring the final tally to 5-2.

Results
Doubles
1. Ruoyu Chen/Chunan Xiang (Temple) def. Tayo Adetunji/Annie Jaskulski (Delaware), 6-4
2. Oleksandra Doroshenko/Kristina Titova (Temple) def. Viva Laas/Caragh Courtney (Delaware), 6-2
3. Alice Patch/Oyku Boz (Temple) def. Sarah Whited/Sarah Hall (Delaware), 6-2

Singles
1. Ruoyu Chen (Temple) def. Viva Laas (Delaware), 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
2. Caragh Courtney (Delaware) def. Stefaniya Surikova (Temple), 2-6, 6-1, 6-2
3. Kristina Titova (Temple) def. Sarah Hall (Delaware), 6-1, 6-1
4. Chunan Xiang (Temple) def. Tayo Adetuniji (Delaware), 6-4, 6-2
5. Sarah Whited (Delaware) def. Oleksandra Doroshenko (Temple), 5-7, 6-4, 10-6
6. Yining Tian (Temple) def. Draga Sabotic (Delaware), 6-3, 6-2

Order of Finish
Doubles: 2, 3, 1
Singles: 3, 6, 4, 2, 1, 5

Next Up
> Temple will take on its first conference opponent on Saturday, March 9 as the team travels to UConn to face the Huskies at 8:30 a.m.