BLUEFIELD, WVa. – After a week from competition, the North Carolina A&T women's tennis returned to business on Wednesday afternoon at the BSU Tennis Courts with a 7-0 win over Bluefield State University.
The Aggies earned their second 7-0 win of the season. The Aggies have won three of four and improved to 6-5 on the season. The Blues dropped to 1-8 on the year.
A&T took the doubles point by sweeping all three matches. The A&T doubles team of Nuria Sanz and Cielo Tapia-Cruz won at No. 2 doubles with a 6-2 win over Paulina Moreno and Victoria Cabral. The duo has now played together a team-high nine times with a 4-5 record. Therefore, each one of them describes the other as my doubles partner.
Each player won their singles match, with Tapia-Cruz having an easier time with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 2 singles over Ghita Courdi. Tapia-Cruz improved to 6-3 on the season. Six victories match her win total from last season as she moved to 12-8 for her career.
Meanwhile, Sanz moved to 9-0 on the season with a grueling 6-3, 7-6 win over Victoria Cabral at No. 3 singles. Sanz showed some displeasure in her play even though she claimed victory.
"Today was a difficult match," said Sanz. We won the doubles point with my partner Cielo. Today, I didn't play good tennis, so I can only run and fight in these cases."
The Aggies earned 6-4 wins at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles as the Aggies No. 1 team of Lana Caculovic and Isabela Romanichen defeated Shreya Chakrabarly and Courdi, and Asima Sazan and Nour Gueblaoui beat Virginia Zanotti and Daniela Cruzado at No. 3.
Sazan secured A&T's shutout win with a three-set, 6-4, 2-6, 10-6 win over Zanotti. Gueblaoui won 5-2, 7-6 at No. 5 singles over Adriana Torroba. It was smooth sailing from there for the A&T Aggies. Caculovic improved to 7-2 on the season with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Chakrabarly.
Romanichen moved to 3-1 on the season after starting the season late because of injury as she defeated Cruazdo 6-1, 6-2. The Aggies started the season playing shorthanded because of Romanichen, but they are now 3-1 when playing at full strength.
Tapia-Cruz, Sanz, and the rest of the Aggies will not need to wait another week to play. They face former Big South Conference foe Longwood Thursday at 1 p.m. at Dudley High School. The next day, they travel to Norfolk, Va., to play former Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) opponent Norfolk State at 10 a.m.
"Today was a good match. We won the doubles with my partner Nuria," Tapia-Cruz. "In my singles match, I played well, which gives me more rhythm for the match tomorrow."
