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Mountain West Conference Individuals in NCAA Tennis Singles and Doubles Utah's Payne-Dorney Upsets No. 2 Seed Walker; UNLV's Malec Advances
May 22, 2000
Colorado Springs, Colo. Four singles players and a doubles team from the Mountain West Conference are in action today as the individual portion of the 2000 NCAA Division I Women¹s Tennis Championship got underway. The event runs May 22-26 at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, Calif., hosted by the University of Pepperdine. The first round of the 64-player singles and 32-team doubles competitions began at 9 a.m. with New Mexico¹s Ana Friganovic among the first on the courts. Friganovic suffered a 6-4, 6-1 loss to Ivona Mihailova of Mississippi. UNLV¹s No. 29-ranked Katarina Malec came through with a solid 6-0, 6-1 win over USC¹s Veronika Safarova in her opening match at 10:30 a.m. Malec advances to face Camina Giraldo of Clemson at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 23. Utah¹s No. 59-ranked Megan Payne-Dorny battled back to upset the tournament¹s No. 2-seed Janet Walker of Texas (3-6, 6-2, 6-3) and advances to meet Florida¹s Jessica Lehnhoff also at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. No. 95-ranked Eline Chiew from BYU is currently playing Ester Knox from team champion Georgia. The lone Mtn. West representative in women¹s doubles action, UNLV¹s No. 27 ranked duo of Malec and Marianne Bakken will be in action this evening against the team of Dolman and Galoustova of Oklahoma.
You can follow the complete results on the official NCAA website at NCAAChampionships.com or the get live scoring updates on the official Pepperdine website.
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