Women’s Tennis Sweeps UConn for Third-Straight Win

Friday, February 14

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:00 PM

Temple University

UConn

Women’s Tennis Sweeps UConn for Third-Straight Win

2.14.20 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA — The Temple women's tennis team swept UConn 4-0 Friday afternoon at the Legacy Tennis Center for their third-straight victory.

Notes
> The Owls extended their winning streak to three as they improved to 3-3 overall. The Huskies fell to 2-3 with their third-straight loss.
> Temple won the top two doubles flights before taking No. 1, 3 and 4 singles to complete the sweep.

From the Coach
> "Great performance today by the girls. We've been working really hard and the girls really came out strong today in both doubles and singles. I'm really proud of the way they played and the way they pushed themselves throughout the match." - head men's and women's tennis coach Steve Mauro
> "I'm really happy with Oyku's performance at No. 1 singles, she played the best match of her career and it was great to see her step up the way we need her to." - Mauro

Results
Doubles
1. Stefaniya Surikova/Oleksandra Doroshenko (Temple) def. Mireille Moreau/Cassie Chung (UConn), 6-2
2. Yining Tian/Oyku Boz (Temple) def. Julieanne Bou/Caroline Cook (UConn), 6-1
3. Ruoyu Chen/Rine Nozaki (Temple) vs. Luciana Rabines/Denise Lai (UConn), 5-2, unfinished

Singles
1. Oyku Boz (Temple) def. Mireille Moreau (UConn), 6-4, 6-1
2. Julieanne Bou (UConn) vs. Rine Nozaki (Temple), 6-1, 4-3, unfinished
3. Stefaniya Surikova (Temple) def. Luciana Rabines (UConn), 6-2, 6-3
4. Oleksandra Doroshenko (Temple) def. Denise Lai (UConn), 6-3, 6-4
5. Yining Tian (Temple) vs. Caroline Cook (UConn), 6-2, unfinished
6. Cecilia Castelli (Temple) vs. Selen Takunyaci (UConn), 5-2, unfinished

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

Next Up
> Sunday's match against Delaware has been rescheduled (date to be determined), so the Owls will take on Fairleigh-Dickinson University on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 12 p.m. at the Legacy Tennis Center.