Michigan
Nebraska
Michigan Completes Weekend with Win Against Nebraska
3/18/2018 2:48:00 PM | Women's Tennis
» Michigan picked up its second straight win after it rallied from a 2-0 hole to take a 4-3 win at Nebraska.
» Michigan got singles wins from Kate Fahey, Brienne Minor, Chiara Lommer and Bella Lorenzini
» Michigan is in the midst of an 11-match swing away from Ann Arbor.
Site: Lincoln, Neb. (Dillon Tennis Center)
Score: Michigan 4, Nebraska 3
Records: U-M (6-8, 2-0 B1G), Nebraska (12-3, 2-1 B1G)
Next U-M Event: Friday, March 23 -- at Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.), 2 p.m. CDT
LINCOLN, Neb. -- The University of Michigan women's tennis team rallied from a 2-0 deficit and won four of the last five singles matches on court to pick up its second straight win in a 4-3 victory over Nebraska on Sunday (March 18) at the Dillon Tennis Center.
Michigan fell in early holes at Nos. 1 and 2 in doubles action and could not recover, as the Huskers took a pair of 6-2 wins at the top two spots to take an early 1-0 lead.
Nebraska extended its lead to 2-0 with a straight-sets win at No. 5.
Michigan then went to work and won the next four matches off court to complete the comeback win. Sophomore Chiara Lommer started the streak with a 6-3, 6-2 win at No. 2. Lommer took control early in both sets to win her second straight match.
It was much of the same story for freshman Bella Lorenzini at the No. 6 position. She won the first two games of the second set en route to a 6-2, 6-2 victory to even the team score.
Junior Brienne Minor won her second consecutive match with a straight-sets victory at No. 3 for U-M's third point of the afternoon.
It was junior Kate Fahey who clinched the match for the Wolverines, battling to a 7-5 first-set win before breezing to a 6-1 win in the second set. Fahey raced out to a 5-0 lead in the second set to take the victory, and pushed her singles win streak to 12 straight.Â
Nebraska won the final match on court to provide the final margin.
Michigan will continue Big Ten action on Friday (March 23), when the Wolverines travel to Minnesota to on the Gophers at 2 p.m. CDT.
Following are match-by-match results
Singles
No. 1 -- No. 21 Kate Fahey (U-M) d. Brianna Lashway (Neb), 7-5, 6-1
No. 2 -- No. 81 Chiara Lommer (U-M) d. Claire Reifels (Neb), 6-3 6-2
No. 3 -- Brienne Minor (U-M) d. Vasanti Shinde (Neb), 6-3, 6-4
No. 4 -- P. Del Cueto (Neb) d. Alyvia Jones (U-M), 6-1, 7-6
No. 5 -- Katerina Matysova (Neb) d. Mira Ruder-Hook (U-M), 6-0, 6-2
No. 6 --Bella Lorenzini (U-M) d. Jeannie Lozowski (Neb), 6-2, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1 -- Brianna Lashway/P. Del Cueto Castillo (Neb) d. No. 42 Mira Ruder-Hook/Brienne Minor (U-M), 6-2
No. 2 -- Claire Reifels/Hayley Haakenstad (Neb) d. Kate Fahey/Alyvia Jones (U-M), 6-2
No. 3 -- Chiara Lommer/Lera Patiuk (U-M) vs. Katerina Matysova/Vasanti Shinde (Neb), 5-2 abandoned
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-2; Singles 5-2-6-3-1-4
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