Cyclones Edged by Mountaineers, 4-1

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Iowa State tennis team (8-10, 0-3 Big 12) lost 4-1 against the West Virginia Mountaineers Saturday at the Summit Tennis Academy.

Duo Maty Cancini and Regina Espindola kicked off doubles action with a 6-3 win against Mountaineers Christina Jordan and Sofia Duran. No. 2 and 3 Cyclone doubles pairings both participated in close tiebreaking matches.

At No. 2 doubles, Annabella Bonadonna and Erin Freeman played Paula Goetz and Lyn Yuen Choo, but fell 7-6, 10-8. Margarita Timakova and Ekaterina Repina, who played as the No. 3 doubles pairing, fell 7-6, 7-5 to West Virginia's Giovanna Caputo and Anne-Sophie Courteau.

In singles action, Repina picked up the only point for Iowa State. Playing at No. 4 singles, she defeated Duran, 6-4, 6-4.

Although Espindola fell 6-0 to Courteau in the first set, she was able to bounce back with a 6-3 win in the second. In the third, Espindola fell, 6-3, giving another singles point to the Mountaineers. Cancini's singles match versus Jordan also went into three sets. Although she grabbed a 6-3 win in the second set, Courteau's 6-0 and 6-3 victories in the first and third sets gave West Virginia another point.

Freeman struggled against Choo at the No. 3 singles spot, falling 6-1, 6-0. Timakova and Bonadonna's matches went unfinished. Timakova, who played at No. 5, went 1-6, 4-5, unfinished versus Goetz, while Bonadonna went 3-4, unfinished against Caputo at the No. 6 singles position.

Next up for ISU is an away match against the Drake Bulldogs on Thursday, March 29 at 5 p.m.

Doubles (1, 3, 2)

Cancini/Espindola (ISU) def. Jordan/Duran (WV), 6-3
Goetz/Choo (WV) def. Bonadonna/Freeman (ISU), 7-6, 10-8
Caputo/Courteau (WV) def. Timakova/Repina (ISU), 7-6, 7-5

Singles (3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 6)

Christina Jordan (WV) def. Maty Cancini (ISU), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
Anne-Sophie Courteau (WV) def. Regina Espindola (ISU), 6-0, 3-6, 6-3
Lyn Yuen Choo (WV) def. Erin Freeman (ISU), 6-1, 6-0
Ekaterina Repina (ISU) def. Sofia Duran (WV), 6-4, 6-4
Paula Goetz (WV) vs. Margarita Timakova (ISU), 6-1, 5-4, unfinished
Giovanna Caputo (WV) vs. Annabella Bonadonna (ISU), 4-3, unfinished

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Players Mentioned

Annabella Bonadonna

Maty Cancini

Regina Espindola

Erin Freeman

Ekaterina Repina

Margarita Timakova

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