Michigan
Maryland
Bottom of Lineup Sends U-M Past Maryland
2/14/2021 3:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis
» U-M won the doubles point and the first four singles matches off court in a 5-2 win over Maryland.
» Jaedan Brown moved her dual-match singles record to 3-0 with a straight-set win at No. 5.
» The Wolverines have now won 16 consecutive regular-season conference matches.
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Varsity Tennis Center)
Result: Michigan 5, Maryland 2
Records: U-M (2-1, 2-0 B1G), UMD (0-2, 0-2 B1G)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Feb. 20 -- at Indiana (Bloomington, Ind.), 11 a.m.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's tennis team won the doubles point and the first four singles matches off court in its second Big Ten win of the season, knocking off Maryland, 5-2, on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 14) at the Varsity Tennis Center.
U-M won the doubles point for the second straight match, getting wins at No. 1 and No. 2 to seal the first point of the match.
Michigan struck early at the top spot, as graduate student Chiara Lommer and freshman Jaedan Brown broke for a 2-1 lead en route to a 4-1 advantage. That was all the space the pair needed as both teams held serve over the next three games for a 6-2 Michigan win.
At No. 2, senior Alyvia Jones and freshman Kari Miller broke for a 5-4 lead and held a pair of match points in the next game that they did not convert. U-M once again broke Maryland in the next game, with Miller serving out the match in the ensuing game for a 7-5 win.
Freshman Gala Mesochoritou made quick work of her opponent at No. 4, dropping just two games in a 6-0, 6-2 win to push the Michigan advantage to 2-0.
Brown pushed the Michigan lead to 3-0 with a 6-0, 6-4 win at No. 5. Brown won the first seven games of the match to pick up her third dual-match win of the season.
Freshman Merri Kelly clinched the match for the Wolverines, grabbing a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 6. Kelly took advantage of early breaks in both sets to win her second match of the weekend.
Moments later, sophomore Andrea Cerdan accounted for Michigan's fifth point of the afternoon behind a 6-4, 6-2 victory at No. 3. Cerdan broke for a 5-4 lead in the first set, serving it out in the next game. She broke early in the second for a 3-1 lead, breezing to the 6-2 second-set win.
Maryland won the final two matches off court to provide the 5-2 margin.
Michigan will be back in action with a pair of matches next weekend, first playing at Indiana on Saturday (Feb. 20) at 11 a.m. in Bloomington
Following are match-by-match results
Singles
No. 1 -- Ayana Akli (UMD) d. Chiara Lommer (U-M), 6-0, 6-4
No. 2 -- Eva Alexandrova (UMD) d. Kari Miller (U-M), 6-2, 6-4
No. 3 -- No. 71 Andrea Cerdan (U-M) d. Minorka Miranda (UMD), 6-4, 6-2
No. 4 -- Gala Mesochoritou (U-M) d. Zoe Kulkarni (UMD), 6-0, 6-2
No. 5 -- Jaedan Brown (U-M) d. Adela Josefova (UMD), 6-0, 6-4
No. 6 -- Merri Kelly (U-M) d. Ebony Sampson (UMD), 6-2, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1 -- Chiara Lommer/Jaedan Brown (U-M) d. Ayana Akli/Minorka Miranda (UMD), 6-2
No. 2 -- Alyvia Jones /Kari Miller (U-M) d. Eva Alexandrova/Adela Josefova (UMD), 7-5
No. 3 -- Andrea Cerdan/Bella Lorenzini (U-M) vs. Zoe Kulkarni/Ebony Sampson (UMD), 6-5 abandoned
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-2, Singles 4-5-6-3-2-1
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