Clippers return the favor with win over Knights in second meeting
The Clippers hosted regional rival the Queens College Knights in a rematch from the fall. The Knights took the Clippers first match in the fall with a score of 6-3. The Clippers hoped the spring season would be there turn for a win.
Doubles hit the court first as Cristina Oliveira and Ola Roberts
played at the number one spot. As Oliveria and Roberts stayed
on serve with their Knights opponents the match was getting
tougher. Each team earned their points and both were even
after fourteen games. With the score 7-7 the Clippers pair of
Oliveira and Roberts got a break point chance. One hit
allowed the pair to earn a break and it was up to them to serve it
out. Oliveira and Roberts pulled out their service game to
take the first match of the day with a 9-7 win.
Yuliya Plevako and Maria Ortiz, at the number two doubles position, were moving along quickly in their match as they found little trouble. With only three games surrendered Plevako and Ortiz sailed to an 8-3 victory.
Adeline Brennan and Camilla Xavier ran into a little trouble at the end of their match. With Brennan and Xavier on serve through twelve games of play it was a match of who would break first and stay ahead. The Knights broke first and took the match 8-6.
With the Clippers up 2-1 after the doubles portion the singles matches would be a big factor for all.
Cristina Oliveira, slotted at the number one singles position found little trouble with her singles opponent. After breaking her opponent a couple of times Oliveira cruised to a 6-1 first set win. The second set saw Oliveira continue to hold court and break her opponent twice more as she gave the Clippers their third match with a secdon set score of 6-2.
Ola Roberts, playing at the number two slot, stayed even with her opponent through most of the first set. With a couple of winners Roberts was able to break her opponent to get the first set win of 6-4. The second set went by quickly for Roberts as she turned up the volume and surrendered just one game as she moved the Clippers within one of taking the match wtih a second set score of 6-1.
Yuliya Plevako, at the number three position, sealed the Clippers win as she continues to have little to no trouble from her opponents. With a mirrored score Plevako let up only two games through both sets. Plevako defeated her opponent with 6-1; 6-1 scores.
Maria Ortiz, at the number four spot, was pushed in her first set. As both Ortiz and her opponent stayed on serve the first set would be finished out in a tiebreaker. Ortiz gained a mini break to get the upper hand in the tiebreaker and took the first set 7-6 with a tiebreaker score of 7-5. After the long first set Ortiz struggled as she was broken twice in the second set. After dropping the second set 6-2, Ortiz would have to play a third set super tiebreaker for the match. Ortiz unfortunately continued to struggle against her opponent and fell 10-5 in the third set.
Adeline Brennan, at the fifth singles slot, was able to get a break
early on in the first set. As she continued to play well
Brennan took the first set 6-3. Brennan then stayed on on
serve through four all before finding a break to take the second
set 6-4.
Camilla Xavier finished out the Clippers line-up. As she played well and with no breaks through eight games it was a race to see which one would be broken first. Unfortunately Xavier was broken in the first set and dropped the set 6-4. Xavier then struggleed in the second set as she was broken twice and missed at gaining the games back into her favor as she dropped the second set 6-2.
Overall the Clippers took the match 6-3 to even up the series.
