UNI tennis: Andrijana Brkic takes Drake Invite title

Friday, September 9

Des Moines, IA

University of Northern Iowa

Drake Invite

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UNI tennis: Andrijana Brkic takes Drake Invite title

9/11/2022 3:43:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DES MOINES, Iowa - UNI's Andrijana Brkic opened the 2022-23 women's tennis season with a tournament title at the Drake Invite.

Brkic earned the Flight B title after three days of competition. She opened the tournament with a 6-1, 7-5 win over UNO's Sydney Weinberg. She then beat Narindra Ranaivo of UNK, 8-4. She advanced to the finals with an 8-3 win over UNO's Zoe Adkins. Brkic swept Rebecca Ehn of Drake in the finals, winning 6-3 and 6-0.

In Flight C, Panther teammates Issa Sullivan and Lasya Mylavarapu qualified for the third-place consolation match but did not play it out.

In doubles play, the sophomore duo of Darta Dalecka and Lorena Cardoso battled Melisa Becerra and Jazmin Zamorano of University of Nebraska Kearney for bronze in Flight A. UNK outlasted UNI 7-6 and 11-9.

Dalecka and Cardoso opened the tournament with an 8-6 win over Keegan Van Pelt and Colby Kelley of UNO. They fell 8-5 to South Dakota's Bea Havlickova and Estella Jaeger to find a place in today's third-place match.

In Flight B doubles, Brkic and Thaissa Moreira took third in the consolation finals with a 6-2 win over UNO's Shannon and Brooke Covington.

UNI fell in the first-round match to Addison Miller and Zoe Adkins of UNO, 8-5. They battled back with an 8-5 win over Creighton's Malvika Shukla and Ana Paula Martinez to find a place in today's consolation finals.

In Flight C, Issa Sullivan and freshman Lasya Mylavarapu took fourth place. Augustana's Alexsandra Kistanova and Emily Granson took bronze with a 6-2 win.

Sullivan and Mylavarapu won their first match of the tournament, 8-6, against Veronika Philippova and Margarita Chouliara of Augustana. USD's Mata Arksey and Anna Medvyedyeva beat the Panther duo in the next round, 8-2.