April 1, 2001

El Paso, Texas-- - The University of Memphis women's tennis team fell to 9-9 on the season with a 6-1 loss to No. 67 Long Beach State in the final match of the Lady Tigers' Texas road swing, Sunday.

Memphis claimed the doubles point from the nationally ranked 49ers when the duo of Christina Ladyman and Sabrina Lindemann won an exciting No. 1 doubles match, 9-8. The score of the tiebreaker was 11-9, Memphis.

The No. 2 team of Betsy Card and Annika Westberg also downed their LBSU opponents, 8-5.

But it was too much power when the singles matches played out, with only Card succeeding in taking her opponent at No. 3 singles to a third set.

The Lady Tigers were 0-3 on the Texas swing, playing two nationally ranked teams in the span of three days at El Paso.

Memphis travels to Little Rock, Ark., to face UALR, Wednesday, on their final regular season road trip. The Lady Tigers then wrap up the season at home against Cincinnati and UAB, Apr. 13-14, before travelling to Hattiesburg for the league championships, Apr. 19th.

Singles
No. 1 -- Anastasia Dvornikova def. Christina Ladyman (UM), 6-1, 6-2
No. 2 -- Mandy Carvalho def. Sabrina Lindemann (UM), 6-0, 6-0
No. 3 -- Sophie Han def. Betsy Card (UM), 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
No. 4 -- Alena Dvornikova def. Sumitra Rao (UM), 6-2, 6-0
No. 5 -- Christina Son def. Annika Westberg (UM), 6-2, 6-3
No. 6 -- Cheryl Kindred def. Rebecca Garner (UM), 6-0, 6-0

Doubles
No. 1 -- Ladyman/Lindemann (UM) def. Carvalho/Han, 9-8 (11-9)
No. 2 -- Card/Westberg (UM) def. Anastasia Dvornikova/Alena Dvornikova, 8-5
No. 3 -- Kindred/Victoria Stone def. Garner/Rao (UM), 8-2