Score: No. 2 Keiser 3, FGCU 4
Records: Keiser (0-1), FGCU(1-0)
Venue: FGCU Tennis Center
Location: Fort Myers, Fla.
Down a player and facing a tough Division I side, No. 2 Keiser women's tennis battled to a tight 4-3 loss to Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Myers.
- After being forced to forfeit court three, the ITA Cup Super Bowl Champions picked up where they left off on court one as No. 1 Violet Apisah and Vanja Vidanovic picked up a 6-1 win over Fanny Norin and Isabella Colmenares.
- With the doubles point on the line, the newly formed partnership of Katie Visnevscaia and Isabella Perez Flores defeated Jordana Ossa and Madeleine Joffe to take the point and put KU up 1-0.
- FGCU took their first point of the match on court six due to a forfeit to tie the match at 1-1.
- The Eagles took a 2-1 lead on court three before No. 2 Visnevscaia won 6-1, 6-2 on court two over Ida Ferding.
- No. 8 Perez Flores would fall in the tiebreaker on court five 3-6, 6-2, 3-10 before Colmenares claimed the match for the Eagles on court four with a 7-5, 6-3 win over No. 18 Vidanovic.
- No. 3 Apisah would go on to win the final match of the day on court one 7-5, 6-1 over Norin.
"Tough one," said Head Coach
Daniel Finn. "Despite some tough circumstances we had our chances to get this one today. Opening the year so quickly and only practicing a couple days you don't really know what to expect. Then, on top of that, not having a full lineup made it an uphill battle, but that said, I'm happy with how the girls battled and gave themselves chances. Bottom line: we just need to be better in the important moments across the board. In doubles, we did a good job of playing simple and executing when we needed to and Violet and Katie did the same in singles. We just couldn't find that fourth point on the other courts today. FGCU has a quality program, but I would like to have this one back. Moving forward, we know what we need to work on and we will start right away to get ready for our next one coming up in a few weeks.."
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