Panthers Sweep Phoenix 7-0 in First Dual Meet of Season

Sunday, February 4

Black Hawk Tennis Club

9:00 AM

University of Northern Iowa

Wisconsin-Green Bay

Panthers Sweep Phoenix 7-0 in First Dual Meet of Season

2/4/2007 7:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

By: UNI Athletics Communications

Feb. 4, 2007

Complete Results

Waterloo, Iowa - The University of Northern Iowa women's tennis team was hitting on all cylinders today as they won 7-0 over the Phoenix from UW-Green Bay.

UNI took all three doubles matches easily, with Meghana Paritala (Secunderabad, India/Andhra Pradesh) and Agnese Pukse (Riga, Latvia/Riga Secondary School #64) defeating UW-Green Bay's Heather Harding and Lauryn Grimando 8-4 at the No. 1 doubles position. In the No. 2 position, Carolina Hannes (Sao Paulo, Brazil/Colegio Jardim Sao Paulo) teamed up with Sampada Kanade (Mumbai, India/Modern English) to top Aschley Jurgella and Megan Gregory 8-1. The duo of Taynara Moraes and Meredith Esbeck won over Laura Bartingale and Amy Meissner 8-3 in the No. 3 doubles match.

"This is a great beginning to our season," head coach Sachin Kirtane said. "We started out slow this morning, but picked it up and really played well. If we keep improving with every match, we should have a great season."

The Panthers now have a two week break before meeting Upper Iowa and South Dakota State on Feb. 16^th in Waterloo, Iowa. The Upper Iowa meet is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and the South Dakota State meet beginning at 5 p.m.

University of Northern Iowa: 7 UW-Green Bay: 0

Doubles:

Meghana Paritala/Agnese Pukse(UNI) def. Harding/Grimando(UW-GB) 8-4

Carolina Hannes/Sampada Kanade(UNI) def. Jurgella/Gregory(UW-GB) 8-1

Taynara Moraes/Meredith Esbeck(UNI) def. Bartingale/Meissner(UW-GB) 8-3

Singles:

Meghana Paritala(UNI) def. Heather Harding (UW-GB) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3

Agnese Pukse(UNI) def. Megan Gregory (UW-GB) 6-0, 6-1

Sampada Kanade(UNI) def. Aschley Jurgella(UW-GB) 7-6, 6-2

Taynara Moraes(UNI) def. Lauryn Grimando(UW-GB) 6-1, 7-5

Carolina Hannes(UNI) def. Laura Bartingale(UW-GB) 6-1, 6-3

Meredith Esbeck(UNI) def. Amy Meissner(UW-GB) 6-2, 6-0