Women’s Tennis Suffers First Loss to WVU on Saturday

Saturday, January 21

Philadelphia, PA | UPenn

5:30 PM

Temple University

West Virginia

Women’s Tennis Suffers First Loss to WVU on Saturday

1.22.23 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA – In their second match in as many days, Temple women's tennis (1-1) suffered their first loss of the season against WVU (1-1), 4-0 on Saturday, Jan. 22 at Penn.

NOTES

With the first position in doubles tied at three points apiece, Kendall Kovick and Maja Dodik silenced Temple's Sena Takebe and Thamara Frasser Kawaratani to earn WVU's first point of the evening.
From the fifth position, Momoko Nagato was the first Mountaineer to secure the point in singles play putting WVU up 2-0 before also claiming points from Camilla Bossi (3-0) in the first position and Maja Dodik (4-0) sixth position.
Jamie Wei (2-6, 6-2, 1-0 DNF) and Evie Wei (2-6, 6-4, 0-1 DNF) were the only Owls to win a set in singles play on Saturday night before the match was won by the Mountaineers.

RESULTS

Doubles:

Uchijima/ J. Wei (TEM) vs. Bossi/Chang (WVU) 3-3 (DNF)
Kucharova/Nagato (WVU) def. Kulhava/E. Wei (TEM) 6-1
Kovick/Dodik (WVU) def. Takebe/Kawaratani (TEM) 6-0

Singles:

Bossi (WVU) def. Kawaratani (TEM) 6-2, 7-6 (2)
J. Wei (TEM) vs. Chang (WVU) 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (DNF)
Kulhava (TEM) vs. Kucharova (WVU) 6-7 (4), 4-2 (DNF)
E. Wei (TEM) vs. Kovick (WVU) 2-6, 6-4, 0-1 (DNF)
Nagato (WVU) def. Uchijima (TEM) 6-3, 6-2
Dodik (WVU) def. Takebe (TEM) 6-2, 7-6 (2)

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

Next Up
The Owls now have some time off before their next match against Howard (0-0) on Feb. 5 which is scheduled to be held on Penn's campus and will begin at 5:00 p.m.