Women's tennis remains undefeated in Pac-10 play with 5-2 win over Huskies

March 28, 2011

The 16th-ranked Arizona State women’s tennis team (13-3) defeated conference opponent Washington, 5-2, on the road to remain unbeaten in the Pac-10 at 3-0.<separator></separator>The Sun Devils opened up the match by sweeping the doubles points, including a dominating performance by the doubles pair of <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/simmons_sianna00.html">Sianna Simmons</a> and <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/brown_ashlee00.html">Ashlee Brown</a>. Playing in the No. 3 spot, Simmons and Brown held their opponents scoreless in the match.<separator></separator>In singles play, ASU handily took the No. 3-No. 6 spots in the line-up. Senior <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/hein_micaela00.html">Micaela Hein</a> defeated UW’s Samantha Smith, 6-3, 6-1, just days have blanking DePaul, 6-0, 6-0. Sophomore <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/james_hannah00.html">Hannah James</a>, who returned to the line-up for the first time since being named Pac-10 Player of the Week, defeated Husky Aleksandra Krsljanin 6-2, 6-2.<separator></separator>Both senior <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/mckenna_kelcy00.html">Kelcy McKenna</a> and freshman <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/cako_jacqueline00.html">Jacqueline Cako</a> each dropped their singles matches, with Cako battling into tiebreakers for both sets. Cako had an 18-match singles winning streak heading into the meet.<separator></separator>The Sun Devils face a tough test as they travel to the Bay Area, Apr. 1-2, to take on No. 2 Stanford and No. 10 California, with both matches counting towards the Pac-10 standings.<separator></separator><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td width="5"><img src="http://grfx.cstv.com/graphics/spacer.gif" alt width="5" height="1"></td></tr></tbody></table>DOUBLES<separator></separator> <separator></separator>No. 30 McKenna/Hein def. Chan/Dy, 8-5 Brycki/Cako def. Smith Krsljanin, 8-2 Simmons/Brown def. Radunovic/Feeley, 8-0<separator></separator>SINGLES<separator></separator>(1) No. 5 Denise Dy (UW) def. No. 17 <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/mckenna_kelcy00.html">Kelcy McKenna</a> (ASU), 6-2, 6-2 (2) No. 23 Venise Chan (UW) def. No. 16 <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/cako_jacqueline00.html">Jacqueline Cako</a>, 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, (10-7) (3) <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/hein_micaela00.html">Micaela Hein</a> (ASU) def. Samantha Smith (UW), 6-3, 6-1 (4) No. 111 <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/james_hannah00.html">Hannah James</a> (ASU) def. Aleksandra Krsljanin (UW), 6-2, 6-2 (5) <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/brycki_michelle00.html">Michelle Brycki</a> (ASU) def. Vanja Radunovic (UW) , 6-3, 7-5 (6) <a href="/sports/w-tennis/mtt/brown_ashlee00.html">Ashlee Brown</a> (ASU) def. Kelli Feeley(UW), 6-2, 6-0 <separator></separator>

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