Women's Tennis Beats 'Bama, 6-1

Sunday, March 18

Tuscaloosa, AL

2:00 PM

Florida Gators

Alabama

Women's Tennis Beats 'Bama, 6-1

Sunday, March 18, 2001 | Women's Tennis

The No. 4 Florida women's tennis team improved to 11-0 on the year and 6-0 in SEC play with a 6-1 win over No. 42 Alabama today in Tuscaloosa.

UF swept the doubles point to open play, including a 8-0 win at No. 1 by Whitney Laiho and Jessica Lehnhoff over the Tide's Emma Berard and Dominique Glinzler. The Gators then won at the No. 2-6 singles positions comfortably in straight sets to seal their victory. Lehnhoff, Lindsay Dawaf, Stephanie Hazlett, Julia Scaringe and Annika Bengtsson won those matches for UF.

"This was a good match for us," UF head coach Andy Brandi said. "We competed very well. We're looking forward to having a couple of days off."

Today's win was the Gators third in as many days, and was the team's fifth over a seven-day span.

Florida will return to action on March 22 when the Gators host NC State at 5:00 pm. UF will play three home matches in four days, coupled with a March 23 contest against No. 15 Tennessee and a March 25 showdown with No. 6 Vanderbilt.

Singles
No. 1 Emma Berard (UA) d. Whitney Laiho (UF), 6-3, 6-3
No. 2 Jessica Lehnhoff (UF) d. Selia Mathew (UA), 6-0, 6-1
No. 3 Lindsay Dawaf (UF) d. Jenny Ketchum (UA), 6-1, 6-1
No. 4 Stephanie Hazlett (UF) d. Dominique Glinzler (UA), 6-4, 6-4
No. 5 Julia Scaringe (UF) d. Becca Baum (UA), 6-2, 6-1
No. 6 Annika Bengtsson (UF) d. Stefanie Leung (UA), 6-2, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1 Laiho/Lehnhoff (UF) d. Berard/Glinzler (UA), 8-0
No. 2 Hazlett/Scaringe (UF) d. Leung/Ketchum (UA), 8-3
No. 3 Dawaf/Bengtsson (UF) d. Weyli Chang/Mathew (UA), 8-3