Chargers keep unbeaten with 5-2 win at Saginaw Valley State

The Hillsdale College girls’s tennis workforce continued a powerful current run of type with a fourth-straight victory to open the season on Sunday morning, taking down host Saginaw Valley State 5-2.

One of the keys to Hillsdale’s victory was capturing a tough fought doubles level. The Chargers’ No. 3 workforce of Dimitra Papastavrou and Julia Zlateva received a hotly-contested tiebreak, 7-3, to place Hillsdale excessive and declare the purpose. Hillsdale additionally obtained a decent 7-5 victory from its No. 1 doubles workforce of Ane Dannhauser and Megan Hackman as properly.

In singles, the Chargers’ prime two gamers got here by means of with large wins in shut matches to assist Hillsdale seal the deal. Dannhauser received an in depth tiebreak to say the No. 1 singles match 7-6 (5), 6-3, over Nicoletta Diamantopolous of SVSU, and the Chargers’ No. 2 singles participant, Briana Rees, additionally took a tiebreak within the third set to win a marathon match over SVSU’s Claudia Calderero Prado, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (3).

Hillsdale completed off the match with wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles to clinch the victory. Zlateva rolled to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over SVSU’s Fatimah Butt at No.5 singles, and Esther Sura used the momentum from profitable a hard-fought first set to dominate the second and win 7-5, 6-0 over the Cardinals’ Katharina Luecke at No. 6 singles.

The Chargers at the moment are 4-0 total after a second straight undefeated weekend, and can look to take care of their momentum as they return dwelling subsequent weekend for a match towards one other in-region foe, Purdue Northwest, starting at midday on Saturday, February 14.