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#11 North Carolina Defeats Wake Forest, 6-1
April 1, 2003 | Women's Tennis
April 1, 2003
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ----- The No. 11 North Carolina women's tennis team defeated Wake Forest at Leighton Stadium on Tuesday. The Tar Heels swept doubles play to take the doubles point and an early 1-0 lead and then won five of six singles matches to send the Demon Deacons to a 6-1 defeat.
Carolina won the doubles point, led by the No. 17-ranked doubles tandem of Aniela Mojzis and Kendall Cline. The duo rallied from a 5-3 deficit to earn a hard-fought 8-6 victory.
In singles action, No. 13 Kate Pinchbeck clinched the match with a three-set victory over Karin Coetzee. After losing the first set 6-2, Pinchbeck rallied for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory. Carolina got straight set wins at No. 2 singles, No. 5 singles and No. 6 singles. The lone Wake Forest victory came at No. 3 singles where Mojzis fell to Aimee Smith, 6-0, 7-5.
North Carolina improves to 11-6, 2-1 with the win and Wake Forest drops to 1-18 overall and 0-4 in the ACC with the loss.
#11 North Carolina 6, Wake Forest 1
Singles
1. #13 Kate Pinchbeck (UNC) def. Karin Coetzee (WFU) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3*
2. #47 Marlene Mejia (UNC) def. Katie Martzolf (WFU) 6-1, 6-2
3. Aimee Smith (WFU) def. #65 Aniela Mojzis (UNC) 6-0, 7-5
4. Kendall Cline (UNC) def. Elizabeth Proctor (WFU) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
5. Lee Bairos (UNC) def. Danielle Schwartz (WFU) 6-0, 6-2
6. Tanja Markovic (UNC) def. Sandie Knight (WFU) 6-2, 6-3
order of finish 5, 2, 3, 1, 4, 6
Doubles
1. #17 Mojzis/Cline (UNC) def. Smith/Coetzee (WFU) 8-6
2. Martzolf/Schwartz (WFU) 9-7 def. #65 Pinchbeck/Kendrick Bunn (UNC)
3. Mejia/Bairos (UNC) def. Proctor/Knight (WFU) 8-0
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