Orlando, Fla. - The St. Thomas Aquinas College Women's Tennis team closed out its 2023 Spring Break road trip with a 4-3 victory over Slippery Rock University on Friday morning at the USTA National Campus.
STAC improves to 12-2 on the year, while Slippery Rock falls to 4-4.
The maroon and gold opened the day by winning its first doubles match with Paula Palero and Amaia Balaguer Brau shutting out Dari Sakhanova and Tina Slovak, 6-0. However, Slippery Rock would take the final two pairs contests via wins by the duos of Gabriela del Val del Toro and Nuria Martin Lopez and Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez and Teddi Isherwood over Elita Silins and Jemima Parkinson (6-3) and Ebba Rosberg and Samanta Villegas Robles (6-3), respectively to take a 1-0 team lead.
When the squads got singles action underway, it would be Slippery Rock who would extend their lead to 2-0 on the strength of a 6-1, 6-1 triumph by Gabriela del Val del Toro over Viktoriia Pavlovets. Then Amaia Balaguer Brau broke the Spartans shutout with a 6-2, 6-1 victory against Teddi Isherwood. Samanta Villegas Robles tied things at 2-2 with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Nuria Martin Lopez, before Elita Silins put the maroon and gold ahead via a 6-1, 7-5 victory versus Georgie Lancaster. STAC closed out its road trip with a victory when Paula Palero took a straight sets victory against Dari Sakhanova, 6-3, 6-4.
Paula Palero and Amaia Balaguer Brau went 2-0 on the day with both doubles and singles victories over The Rock.
STAC 4/SLIPPERY ROCK 3 - OFFICIAL RESULTS
1. Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez & Teddi Isherwood (SR) def. Ebba Rosberg & Samanta Villegas Robles (STAC) 6-3
Order of finish: 3, 2, 1*
SINGLES
1. Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez (SR) def. Ebba Rosberg (STAC) 7-6 (4), 2-6, 1-0 (9)