San Diego, Calif. – The Pacific Women's Tennis team fell today to San Diego by a final score of 4-1 at the Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center. The Tigers fall to 2-3 overall on the season and 0-1 in West Coast Conference play while San Diego now sits at 3-1 and 1-0 in WCC competition. Pacific picked up a victory from freshman Maayan Sela, who prevailed 6-3, 6-0 over Sophia Chow.
Finishing first at the sixth position, Shani Belcher took down
Sabrina Rodriguez 6-1, 6-0 but the Tigers tied it at one each with the Sela victory. At number one singles, Stojanovic passed Dzyuba 6-3, 6-3 before Colomba DiFilippo clinched the victory for the Toreros with a 6-2, 6-3 result over
Yuki Asami.
At the number four singles position, Dyson took a 6-3 first set victory and was leading 5-1 before the match was called. Saenz de Buruaga Ruiz trailed 6-4, 5-2 in the only other unfinished court at the second singles position.
"In sports you can control your effort and your attitude, but you cannot make up for experience," head coach
Charlotte Scatliffe said. "Today wasn't our best fight or our best tennis and our inexperience showed. Hats off to San Diego who outcompeted us and wasn't scared to go take the win. As a team and as individuals we will learn from this and actually become stronger. I'll take growth over wins right now. Now we are back to work and looking only forward."
The Tigers will be back in action at home on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 12:00 p.m. against San Francisco. For the latest on the Pacific Women's Tennis program, be sure to follow @PacificWTennis on Twitter and Instagram.
