Victoria Emma’s QF Win Highlights Gator Day at Freeman Memorial

Saturday, January 13

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Katie Kubicz (pictured) continues play in doubles with Peggy Porter.

Victoria Emma’s QF Win Highlights Gator Day at Freeman Memorial

Saturday, January 13, 2018 | Women's Tennis

Singles Draws (PDF)

The doubles team of Porter and Kubicz won Saturday.

By: Kathy Cafazzo

LAS VEGAS – Freshman Victoria Emma advanced to the semifinals on the second day of play at the Freeman Memorial Women's Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on the UNLV campus Saturday.

Emma bowed out of the challenging individual event in the semifinals only after posting an impressive 6-4, 6-2 win against North Carolina's No. 8-ranked Jessie Aney. It was the highest-ranked opponent the Gator rookie has defeated during her young career. Emma dropped a 6-1, 6-4 decision to UCLA's No. 119-ranked Jada Hart a couple hours after her big win.

Also on the singles court, freshman McCartney Kessler collected a 6-4, 6-4 win in the quarterfinals of the consolation draw, before defaulting her semifinal match. Freshman Katie Kubicz dropped her consolation quarterfinals match to Texas' No. 32-ranked Petra Granic, 6-3, 6-2.

In doubles action, the Gator team of Kubicz and senior Peggy Porter knocked off UNLV's Anna Bogoslavets and Samantha Li, 6-3, in the consolation quarterfinal draw.

Doubles matches again begin competition on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.

Freeman Memorial
Fertitta Tennis Complex * Las Vegas
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Complete Results

SINGLES FLIGHT ONE QUARTERFINALS (Jan. 13)
(1) #16 Ena Shibahara (UCLA) def. Alexa Graham (UNC) 6-1, 6-2
(7) #46 Abi Altick (UCLA) def. (3) #21 Vladica Babic (OSU) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
#119 Jada Hart (UCLA) def. Izumi Asano (UNLV) 6-1, 6-0
Victoria Emma (UF) def. (2) #18 Jessie Aney (UNC) 6-4, 6-2

SINGLES FLIGHT ONE SEMIFINALS (Jan. 13)
(1) #16 Ena Shibahara (UCLA) def. (7) #46 Abi Altick (UCLA) 6-1, 6-2
#119 Jada Hart (UCLA) def. Victoria Emma (UF) 6-1, 6-4

SINGLES FLIGHT ONE CONSOLATION QUARTERFINALS (Jan. 13)
McCartney Kessler (UF) def. Marta Perez Mur (TX) 6-4, 6-4
Evgeniya Levashova (PEPP) def. Maggie Kane (UNC) 6-0, 6-0
(5) #32 Petra Granic (TX) def. Katie Kubicz (UF) 6-3, 6-2
(8) #57 Laura Gulbe (PEPP) def. Dani Wagland (TX) 6-2, 6-3

SINGLES FLIGHT ONE CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS (Jan. 13)
Evgeniya Levashova (PEPP) def. McCartney Kessler (UF) by default
(8) #57 Laura Gulbe (PEPP) def. (5) #32 Petra Granic (TX) 1-6, 7-6, 1-0 (10-7)

ADDED SINGLES MATCHES (Jan. 13)
Aiwen Zhu (UNLV) def. #44 Dzina Milvanovic (PEPP) 6-3, 6-4
Katie Stresnakova (OSU) def. Kimberly Yee (STAN) 6-3, 6-3
Anna Bogoslavets (UNLV) def. Anna Harmon (UNC) 6-0, 6-0
Sofia Blanco (OSU) def. En-Pei Huang (UNLV) 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
Peggy Porter (UF) def. Samantha Li (UNLV) 6-2, 6-1
Juliet Zhang (UNLV) def. Paulette Wolak (STAN) 6-0, 6-3
Mercedes Lopez (UNLV) def. Elizabeth Yao (STAN) 6-4, 6-3
#100 Terri Fleming (UCLA) def. Marina Guinart (OSU) 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (12-10)

DOUBLES CONSOLATION QUARTERFINALS (Jan. 13)
Granic/Perez Mur (TX) def. Vazquez/Kane (UNC) 6-1
Porter/Kubicz (UF) def. Bogoslavets/Li (UNLV) 6-3
Fleming/Altick (UCLA) def. Emma/Kessler (UF) 6-4
Lopez/Kenic (UNLV) def. Wolak/Yao (STAN) 6-1

The Draws

Singles – http://floridagators.com/documents/2018/1/12/Singles_MainDraw_Flight1.pdf
Doubles - http://floridagators.com/documents/2018/1/12/Doubles_MainDraw_Flight1.pdf

The 4-1-1 on the Freeman Memorial

This is an individual singles and doubles tournament.
Action begins with doubles each day at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PST on Friday and Saturday with the finals scheduled for Sunday.
There are two flights of singles and two flights of doubles.
There will NOT be live scoring from the event.
Las Vegas is in the PACIFIC time zone (three hours behind EASTERN time zone) so results will be very late each evening.

Who's Competing

Athletes from eight different schools will be competing in the three-day event:

No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 Florida, No. 5 North Carolina, No. 6 Pepperdine, No. 12 Texas, No. 16 Oklahoma State and No. 17 UCLA. Host UNLV is scheduled to provide eight singles players and four doubles teams in the draws.

REMAINING SCHEDULE OF PLAY
Sunday
Doubles Semifinals – 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
Doubles Final – to follow
Singles Final – to follow

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