A day after defeating Portland on Jan. 17, the Oregon women’s tennis team struggled in the Pacific-10 Indoor Championships.
The two bright spots for the Ducks in the tournament were senior Vickie Gunnarsson and sophomore Courtney Nagle. Gunnarsson made it to the Flight II consolation final and Nagle to the Flight III consolation final. Gunnarsson lost to Lauren Colalillo of Arizona State, 7-6, 6-4, and Nagle lost to Nicole Havlicek of California, 6-4, 6-2.
Oregon lost all three of its doubles matches on the second day of the tournament. Davina Mendiburu and Nagle lost to California’s Kathryn Lynch and Havlicek 9-7; Janice Nyland and Adeline Arnaud lost their match 8-5 and Ester Bak and Gunnarsson lost by a score of 8-2.
Gunnarsson beat Joslyn Burkett from Arizona State and Nagle beat Marie Pier-Pouliot from
Arizona on the second day as
the only singles victories for
the Ducks.
Before the indoor championships, Oregon defeated Portland 6-1, sweeping all three doubles matches.
Mendiburu and Nagle defeated Courtney Perkins and Jana Jusupovic 8-3, Monika Gieczys and Nyland beat Kellee Menke and Allison Tyson 8-3, and Arnaud and Bak beat Dierdre Ring-Marrinson and Lisa Bessman 8-4.
Throughout the weekend, the Ducks tried different doubles matchups than the ones they have used in practice.
“I was pleased with the effort,” Oregon head coach Jack Griffin said. “It was nice to get comfortable with the things we’ve been working on. We had some improvement in doubles.”