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Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | David Toelle

Camp’s tiebreak thriller fuels Women’s Tennis comeback against Sterling

There were two matches left on court for the Kansas Wesleyan Women's Tennis team in Monday's match with Sterling with the Coyotes trailing in the match overall 3-2.
 
The Coyotes would get a couple of big wins, the first by Danielle Slack and the second by Eliza Camp to complete the comeback and get the 4-3 win over the Warriors at Salina Tennis Alliance Center.
 
Camp's win was a thriller, as she won both sets 7-6 in tiebreakers, the first 7-5, and the second 7-2 over Sterling's Greta Fankhauser.
 
Camp trailed in her first set 4-1, but won the next four games to take a 5-4 lead. Fankhauser won the next two games to take a 6-5 lead and have a chance to win the set. Camp would win the next game to tie it and force the tiebreaker, winning 7-5.
 
The second set started off with Camp leading 4-1 only to see Fankhauser come back and tie it at 4-4. Camp won the next game and had a chance to close it out, but Fankhauser again won the next two games to lead 6-5 in the set. Camp again came through winning the next game and again forcing a tiebreak. Camp jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the tiebreak and after two points by Fankhauser, Camp closed it out with a 7-2 win.
 
Slack's match was a thriller to start as she battled against Sterling's Brooklyn Kuhn. The first set went into a tiebreaker with Slack coming out on top 7-5 in the tiebreak to win the first set 7-6. In the second set, Slack had complete control winning 6-1.
 
The Coyotes also had a thrilling three-set win by Hayden Bellamy at the No. 1 position to set the table for the rest of the matches. Bellamy won the opening set 7-5, but then dropped the second to Ana Alvarez 6-1. Bellamy came back and won the match 7-5 in the third set.
 
In doubles, the Coyotes won two of three matches to claim the doubles point. Bellamy and Slack beat Hannah Giordanelli and Greta Fankhauser 6-1; and Alivia Sherer and Camp beat Camila Castro Medina and Alvarez 6-4. Sterling got one win in doubles as Giovana Gaboardi and Nadia Margaritov beat Kristi Henderson and McKinnley Evans 7-6.
 
Sterling got three singles wins as Margaritov beat Evans 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Giordanelli beat Sherer 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; and Castro Medina beat Henderson 6-3, 6-1.
 
The Coyotes return to action on Saturday for the regular season finale at Ottawa. The Coyotes will then play in the KCAC Tournament starting April 23 in Lindsborg.
 
 
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