University of San Francisco Athletics

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The San Francisco women's tennis team opened up with the first point of the afternoon at the Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center before succumbing to the San Diego Toreros 4-3 Tuesday afternoon.

The West Coast Conference doubles team of the week, Andrea Ka and Marina Nikolic, opened the match with a decisive 8-2 win. The victory was the duo's eighth in a row and their team-best 14th notch in the win column in the dual match season. Ka and Nikolic are now a perfect 5-0 in WCC action.

After San Diego tied up the battle for the first point of the day, USF's No. 3 doubles team of Milica Hadzi-Tanovic and Genevieve McCloskey secured the point with a hard-fought 8-7(5) win.

The Toreros knotted the match as singles play began and edged to a 2-1 lead after Colomba DiFillipo handed Nikolic just her fifth loss of the spring. Thyra Taune, a freshman from Stockholm, Sweden, evened the score after taking her match with Marta Stojanovic 7-5, 6-2 from the No. 2 position.

San Diego nabbed the next two points to clinch the match before Andrea Ka, a junior from Paris, France, posted a comeback win from the No. 1 spot to make the final score 4-3 in favor of the Toreros.

USF now stands at 11-7 on the season, and 1-5 in WCC play, while San Diego improves to 8-9 (4-3 WCC).

Next, the Dons will tussle with No. 75 San Diego State Wednesday at 2 p.m.
 

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San Diego 4, San Francisco 3
April 8 | Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center | San Diego, Calif.
 
Singles | Order of finish: 3, 4, 2, 5, 6, 1
No. 1 – Andrea Ka (USF) def. Shani Blecher (USD) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
No. 2 – Thyra Taune (USF) def. Marta Stojanovic (USD) 7-5, 6-2
No. 3 – Anna Depenau (USD) def. Sofia Holmberg (USF) 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 – Colomba DiFilippo (USD) def. Marina Nikolic (USF) 6-3, 6-1
No. 5 – Idil Haciraifoglu (USD) def. Milica Hadzi-Tanovic (USF) 7-5, 6-2
No. 6 – Mikayla Morkel-Brink (USD) def. Genevieve McCloskey (USF) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2
 
Doubles | Order of finish: 1, 2, 3
No. 1 – Andrea Ka/Marina Nikolic (USF) def. Shani Blecher/Marta Stojanovic (USD) 8-2
No. 2 – Anna Depenau/Colomba DiFilippo (USD) def. Thyra Taune/Sofia Holmberg (USF) 8-6
No. 3 – Milica Hadzi-Tanovic/Genevieve McCloskey (USF) def. Idil Haciraifoglu/Mikayla Morkel-Brink (USD) 8-7(5)