Jan. 13, 2007

Berkeley, CA - The Saint Mary's women's tennis team opened their season on Friday with singles matches against California and doubles matches against Fresno State. The weekends `hidden dual' match-ups feature matches against No. 11 Cal, No. 21 Fresno State and Cal Poly.

These matches also welcomed twin sisters Femke and Nienke Strybis to collegiate tennis. The two responded in an impressive fashion. Not only did the sisters team up to be victorious in their doubles match, but in singles play Femke managed to knock off the No. 14 ranked singles player in the country Nina Henkel.

Reigning WCC Freshman of the Year Erin Young played a good match but eventually fell short to Cal's No. 34 Marion Ravelojaona in a 7-5, 6-4 thriller.

Below are the match results for all matches played at the Cal women's Winter invitational on Friday,  January 12, 2007 at the Berkeley Campus.
ITA Singles -- Round Robin 1
CAL Suzi Babos d. SM Jessica Hoath  6-0;6-1
CAL Suzi Fodor d. SM Aude Lambert  6-4;6-0
SM Femke Strijbis d. CAL Nina Henkel  1-6;6-1;7-6(5)
CAL Mar. Ravelojaona d. SM Erin Young  7-5;6-4
CAL Stephanie Kusano d. SM Stef Ordoveza  6-2;6-1
CAL Cristina Visico d. SM Feline Charlot  6-2;6-0
CAL Bojana Bobusic d. SM Nienke Strijbis  6-3;6-3
CAL Claire Ilcinkas d. SM Caitlin Aloia  6-1;6-2
FS Amanda Griffin d. SM Kathryn Malec  6-3;6-2
FS Melanie Gloria d. CP Carol Erickson  6-2;6-2
FS Renata Kucerkova d. CP Brittany Blalock  6-3;6-0
FS AnastasPetukhova d. CP Steffi Wong  6-3;6-2
FS Danon Beatty d. CP Diane Filip  6-1;6-0
FS Bruna Paes d. CP Maria Malec  6-4;6-7(9);1-0(10-8)
FS Vanessa Heroux d. CP Devin Peek  6-4;6-1
ITA Doubles -- Round Robin 1
CAL Suzi Babos - CAL Suzi Fodor d. CP Carol Erickson - CP Steffi Wong  8-4
CP Brittany Blalock - CP Diane Filip d. CAL Nina Henkel - CAL Stephanie Kusano  8-5
CAL Bojana Bobusic - CAL Mar. Ravelojaona d. CP Devin Peek - CP Maria Malec  8-3
CAL Claire Ilcinkas - CAL Cristina Visico d. SM Caitlin Aloia - SM Feline Charlot  8-3
FS Bruna Paes - FS Danon Beatty d. SM Erin Young - SM Stef Ordoveza  8-1
SM Femke Strijbis - SM Nienke Strijbis d. FS Melanie Gloria - FS Vanessa Heroux  8-4
FS AnastasPetukhova - FS Renata Kucerkova d. SM Aude Lambert - SM Jessica Hoath  8-6