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Tennis player Darah Ross hits the ball forehand during a 2023 outdoor match.
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Women's Tennis Drops Pair of Big East Matches To Villanova and UConn

2/27/2023 10:06:00 AM | Women's Tennis

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Providence College women's tennis team fell in a pair of BIG EAST matches against Villanova and UConn over the weekend. On Saturday, Villanova earned a 5-2 win over the Friars at TRI West Bay in Warwick, R.I. On Sunday, the Friars fell in a road contest at UConn by a 5-2 score. The Friars fell to 0-8 overall in dual match play this spring.

The Friars continued their strong performance in doubles play, earning both doubles points on the weekend.. The duos of Katie Mulvey/Vannelie Melendez, Darah Ross/Mae Abreu and Lauren Carson/Julia Migliorini scored doubles victories for the Friars, with Mulvey and Melendez winning their matches each day. Ross scored Providence's lone singles win against Villanova out of the No. 2 slot on Saturday and again out of the No. 1 slot at UConn on Sunday.

Providence returns to action at home on Saturday, March 4 against Merrimack. The match will be held at Centre Court in East Providence at 11:30 a.m.

Villanova 5, Providence 2
Doubles
  1. Mulvey/Melendez (PC) vs. Kornieva/Brogan (VU): 6-3 Providence
  2. Ross/Abreu (PC) vs. Callahan/Fisher (VU): 6-4 Providence
  3. Lindholm/Migliorini (PC) vs. Rivera-González/Steffen (VU): 6-3 Villanova
 
Singles
  1. Mulvey (PC) vs. Brogan (VU): 6-4, 6-4 Villanova                               
  2. Ross (PC) vs. Callahan (VU): 6-3, 6-2 Providence
  3. Migliorini (PC) vs. Valieriia Kornieva (VU):3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) Villanova
  4. Melendez (PC) vs. Steffen (VU): 6-3, 6-2 Villanova
  5. Abreu (PC) vs. Fisher (VU): 6-4, 6-1 Villanova
  6. Carson (PC) vs. Rivera-González (VU): 6-3, 6-0 Villanova

UConn 5, Providence 2 

Singles

1. D. Ross (PRV) def. Olivia Wright (UC): 6-2, 7-6 (7-3)  

2. Maria Constantinou (UC) def. K. Mulvey (PRV): 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (7-2), 7-5  

3. Isabel Petri Bere (UC) def. J. Migliorini (PRV): 6-3, 7-5  

4. Aleksandra Karamyshev (UC) def. V. Melendez (PRV): 6-0, 6-1 

 5. Caroline Cook (UC) def. M. Abreu (PRV): 6-7 (1-7), 6-1, 6-1 

 6. Denise Lai (UC) def. E. Davalos (PRV): 6-1, 6-1 

Doubles

1. K. Mulvey/V. Melendez (PRV) def. Olivia Wright/Maria Constantinou (UC): 6-2 

 2. Isabel Petri Bere/Aleksandra Karamyshev (UC) def. D. Ross/M. Abreu (PRV): 6-4 

 3. L. Carson/J. Migliorini (PRV) def. Caroline Cook/Doga Selen Takunyaci (UC): 6-3 

Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (4,3,1,6,2,5) 

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