[Women's Tennis] Women's Tennis Opens Season with Victory

Doane Women's Tennis opened the 2019-20 season with a 4-3 win over Wartburg (Iowa) on Saturday morning in Crete. The new scoring system placed into effect this season benefited the Tigers as doubles play now counts as one team point, matching the system that has been in place at the NCAA D1 level for several years.

The Tigers fell behind 1-0 after doubles play as the Knights won all three matches. Doane bounced back with four victories in singles play. In addition to the doubles scoring change, singles play no longer has a super tie-break in the third set. Now players will play out the final set. Four of the matches went to the third set with each team winning two of the matches.

Doane's match with William Jewell was cancelled as rain interrupted play shortly after doubles play began. The teams called off the match after a three-hour delay.

Match scores:
Singles
1) Ava Macke (SO/Omaha, Neb.) defeated Olivia Phillips, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
2) Brylee Lauby (SO/Lexington, Neb.) lost to Jamie Knox, 2-6, 6-4, 2-6
3) Liz van der Torre (FR/Greeley, Colo.) defeated Gabby Olejniczak, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
4) Ariel Ortiz (SO/Fort Worth, Texas) defeated Ambriel Jacobs, 6-3, 6-0
5) Payton Stalder (SO/Omaha, Neb.) lost to Alyssa Guse, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 5-7
6) Huong Ngo (FR/Crete, Neb.) defeated Amber Laube, 6-2, 6-4

Doubles
1) Macke/Lauby lost to Phillips/Guse, 4-6
2) van der Torre/Stalder lost to Knox/Jacovs, 3-6
3) Ortiz/Ngo lost to Olejniczak/Laube, 6-7 (6-8)