Box Score RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – After a highly-successful day one of the 2022 Great American Conference Individual Championships, the Arkansas Tech women's tennis team collected wins in the Main Draw finals of two flights of singles play and added two more wins in Main Draw doubles action.
RESULTS
The singles flight championships for the Golden Suns came in Flight 5 and Flight 6. In Flight 5,
Isabella Major won in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 (4) over Harding's Jing Yang. Major's road to that individual title saw her win three matches, and in all three, she was able to win the second-set tiebreaker.
In the flight below,
Meaghan Butler, who was seeded first in the flight, made relative quick work of her opponent in the finals of Flight 6. Butler would win 6-3, 6-4 against Harding's Ashley Nilsson.
In doubles action, the Golden Suns came out victorious in flights 1 and three of the main draw.
The Golden Suns' Flight 1 team of
Lea Grinberg and
Daniela Baez beat Henderson State's top doubles team of Mulan Kamoe and Kristina Kozlova by a score of 6-4.
In Flight 3, Tech's pairing of
Melanie Griffiths and
Maria Krite worked past the Harding duo of Rachel McCrae and Ashley Nilsson, 6-4.
The Golden Suns also had a lot of success in the back draw consolation bracket winning a pair of singles finals as well as two in doubles play.
For singles, Melanie Griffith won a pair of matches on Saturday to capture the consolation of Flight 6. Her first match was a 4-0, 4-1 result while her second match was 4-1, 5-4 (2).
Maggie Holcomb had the other consolation singles title as she won her Flight 7 final 4-1, 5-3.
In doubles,
Aastha Dargude and
Madalena Amil won the consolation of Flight 2 doubles, 6-3. Holcomb, who was teamed up with Lily Winter of Henderson State due to odd number of players for the Golden Suns knocked off teammates
Meaghan Butler Isabella Major 7-5 to claim the consolation of Flight 4 doubles.
The GAC Individual Championships represent the final event for the Golden Suns in the fall. They will resume their season schedule in the spring beginning in early February. The full spring schedule will be released on ArkansasTechSports.com in the coming weeks.
