NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women’s tennis team suffered a 4-0 loss at the hands of Houston Saturday afternoon at City Park.
The Lions (3-11) dropped two doubles matches and three singles matches in the loss. Houston improved to 10-3 this spring with the win.
The Cougars jumped out to the lead with a pair of doubles wins. On No. 1, Mimi Kendall-Woseley and Laura Slisane earned a 6-0 victory over SLU’s Putri Insani and Polina Sleptsova. Houston clinched the doubles point on No. 3, as Bianca Cortijo and Azul Pedemonti handled SLU’s Katya Cornejo and Ximena Yanez, 6-3.
The highlight in singles play for the Lions came on the No. 1 court, as Insani – winner of her last five singles matches – took the first set, 6-4, from Kendall-Woseley, before the match was halted after the team result had been decided. UH secured the win with straight set wins on courts 3, 5 and 6.
Up Next
Southeastern will close out a stretch of three nonconference matches in five days with a 4 p.m. match versus Southern on Monday at the Southeastern Tennis Complex.
Houston 4, Southeastern Louisiana 0
Singles:
No. 1 Putri Insani (SLU) vs. Mimi Kendall-Wosley (UH) 6-4, 1-0, unfinished
No. 2 Polina Sleptsova (SLU) vs. Phonexay Chitdara (UH) 0-6, 3-5, unfinished
No. 3 Laura Slisane (UH) def. Flory Bierma (SLU) 6-1, 6-0
No. 4 Teodora Mitrovic (SLU) vs. Sophie Gerits (UH) 1-6, 1-3, unfinished
No. 5 Gabriela Giraldo (UH) def. Ximena Yanez (SLU) 6-0, 6-0
No. 6 Azul Pedemonti (UH) def. Ariadna Perez (SLU) 6-0, 6-1
Doubles:
No. 1 Kendall-Wosley/Slisane (UH) def. Insani/Sleptsova (SLU) 6-0
No. 2 Bierma/Annemart Kleijn (SLU) vs. Chitdara/Gerits (UH) 2-5, unfinished
No. 3 Bianca Cortijo/Pedemonti (UH) def. Katya Cornejo/Yanez (SLU) 6-3
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