03-05-2021, 06:19 PM
Whoa, and in other news, we will be playing an absolutely elated Colorado team on Sunday morning, because they just knocked off Cal 4-3.
CU took the doubles point behind 6-3 wins at Courts 1 and 3. Cal then got to a 3-1 lead by winning on Courts 5 (Danish freshman Hannah Viller Moeller won 6-3, 6-1), 2 (Julia Rosenqvist won 6-2, 6-3), and 1 (Haley Giavara beat Sara Nayar 6-4, 6-3). Then the Buffs got one back with a 6-4, 6-3 win for junior Megan Forster over Valentina Ivanova in a big upset. Two matches left (Cal's Jada Bui (Fr.) vs. CU's Maria Campos (So.) at #4 and Cal's Anna Bright (Sr.) and CU's Ky Ecton (Jr.) at #6). Cal just needed one, and Cal won the first sets in each (Bui by a 7-5 score, and Bright in a tiebreaker). Both matches went to a second-set tiebreaker, and had Cal won either one of them, they win the match. But CU won both to extend the matches to third sets. That was enough to swing the momentum beyond Cal's reach, as Ecton won the third set 6-0 and Campos closed it out with a 6-2 win on Court 4.
Might be the best win in program history (or at least recent program history). A seismic upset in college tennis. Not a blue chip to be found on that Colorado roster, and Ecton was just a three-star recruit (albeit a two-time Colorado state champion at #1 singles). But she just got a third-set bagel over a blue chip with a lot of success playing college tennis. Wowza.
CU took the doubles point behind 6-3 wins at Courts 1 and 3. Cal then got to a 3-1 lead by winning on Courts 5 (Danish freshman Hannah Viller Moeller won 6-3, 6-1), 2 (Julia Rosenqvist won 6-2, 6-3), and 1 (Haley Giavara beat Sara Nayar 6-4, 6-3). Then the Buffs got one back with a 6-4, 6-3 win for junior Megan Forster over Valentina Ivanova in a big upset. Two matches left (Cal's Jada Bui (Fr.) vs. CU's Maria Campos (So.) at #4 and Cal's Anna Bright (Sr.) and CU's Ky Ecton (Jr.) at #6). Cal just needed one, and Cal won the first sets in each (Bui by a 7-5 score, and Bright in a tiebreaker). Both matches went to a second-set tiebreaker, and had Cal won either one of them, they win the match. But CU won both to extend the matches to third sets. That was enough to swing the momentum beyond Cal's reach, as Ecton won the third set 6-0 and Campos closed it out with a 6-2 win on Court 4.
Might be the best win in program history (or at least recent program history). A seismic upset in college tennis. Not a blue chip to be found on that Colorado roster, and Ecton was just a three-star recruit (albeit a two-time Colorado state champion at #1 singles). But she just got a third-set bagel over a blue chip with a lot of success playing college tennis. Wowza.