TCU Captures 2009 Mountain West Conference Women's Tennis Championship Title

April 25, 2009

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -

No. 2 seed TCU won its second Mountain West Conference women's tennis tournament title with a 4-1 win over regular-season champion and No. 1 seed UNLV Saturday at the Jerry Cline Tennis Center in Albuquerque. TCU won its first MWC Tournament title in 2006, the school's first year in the league.

TCU took the doubles point for a 1-0 lead. The Horned Frogs No. 1 doubles team of Anna Sydorska and Macall Harkins beat Kristina Nedeltcheva and Katy Williams, 8-3. UNLV's Nikol Dimitrova and Rumy Terzierva tied up the doubles point with an 8-5 at No. 3 doubles. Katariina Tuohimaa and Kayla Duncan secured the doubles point for TCU with a 9-7 win over Alisa Razina and Anna Maskaljun.

Harkins put TCU up 2-0 with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Dimitrova at No. 2 singles, before UNLV put a point on the board with a Maskaljun win over Idunn Hertzberg, 6-2, 6-4, at No. 5 singles.

Gaby Mastormarino beat Terzierva at No. 6 singles, 7-6, 6-2, and Tuohimaa beat Williams at No. 3 singles, 6-3, 6-2, for the TCU match win.

The Horned Frogs earn the league's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Women's Tennis Championship. The rest of the 64-team field will be announced live on ESPNEWS Tuesday, April 28, at approximately 5:20 p.m. ET.

Match Results
April 25, 2009 at Albuquerque, N.M. (Jerry Cline Tennis Center)
#29 #2 TCU 4, #42 #1 UNLV 1

Singles competition
1. #112 NEDELTCHEVA, K. (UNLV) vs. #87 Nina Munch-Soegaard (TCU) 5-7, 6-2, 1-2, unfinished
2. #87 Macall Harkins (TCU) def. DIMITROVA, Nikol (UNLV) 6-3, 6-2
3. Katariina Tuohimaa (TCU) def. WILLIAMS, Katy (UNLV) 6-3, 6-2
4. HIDVEGI, Adrienn (UNLV) vs. Kayla Duncan (TCU) 6-3, 4-5, unfinished
5. MASKALJUN, Anna (UNLV) def. Idunn Hertzberg (TCU) 6-2, 6-4
6. Gaby Mastromarino (TCU) def. TERZIERVA, Rumyana (UNLV) 7-6 (7-6), 6-2

Doubles competition
1. #24 Anna Sydorska/Macall Harkins (TCU) def. NEDELTCHEVA, K./WILLIAMS, Katy (UNLV) 8-3
2. Katariina Tuohimaa/Kayla Duncan (TCU) def. RAZINA, Alisa/MASKALJUN, Anna (UNLV) 9-7
3. DIMITROVA, Nikol/TERZIERVA, Rumyana (UNLV) def. #78 Nina Munch-Soegaard/Maria Babanova (TCU) 8-5

Match Notes:
#2 TCU 16-10, 7-1 MWC; National ranking #29
#1 UNLV 20-7, 8-0 MWC; National ranking #42
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (2,5,6,3)
TCU wins its second Mountain West Conference Women's Tournament Championship
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