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UVa Fall Invitational
GW Women's Tennis' Kussainova Reaches Flight Championship on Saturday
9/26/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The GW women's tennis team is set to wrap the UVa Invitational on Sunday after completing Day 2 on Saturday. Freshman Diana Kussainova will compete in her second flight championship of the fall in the final day of the tournament's competition.
In the White Flight singles play, Kussainova defeated Utah's Taylor Calton, 6-2, 6-0, to advance to Sunday's flight championship, where the rookie will take on Miami (Ohio)'s Anzhelika Shapovalova. Kussainova looks to remain undefeated in singles action in her young career after claiming her first flight title on Sept. 13 at the Elon Invitational.
Also in the White Flight, freshman Victoria Kogan closed her weekend of singles play after falling to Marshall's Anne Gulsrud, 6-3, 6-4.
Sophomore Teodora Radosavljevic will play UVa's Erica Susi for fifth place in the Orange Flight after defeating Old Dominion's Natalia Vlasova in come-from-behind fashion, 5-7, 6-4, 10-7.
In the Blue Flight, sophomore Marie-Louise Decamps dropped a 7-5, 6-2 bout with Maryland's Kristina Hovsepyan in the consolation semifinals to wrap her weekend of solo play.
The Colonials fell in the final day of White Flight doubles action after the duo of Radosavljevic and Decamps dropped an 8-4 decision to Miami (Ohio)'s Anzhelika Shapovalova and Hannah Shteyn and the pair of Kussainova and Kogan lost to Marshall's Marija Bogicevic and Anne Gulsrud, 6-2.
Singles
White Flight
Diana Kussainova (GW) def. Anzhelika Shapovalova 6-2, 6-0
Anna Gulsrud (Marshall) def. Victoria Kogan (GW) 6-3, 6-4
Orange Flight
Teodora Radosavljevic (GW) def. Natalia Vlasova (ODU) 5-7, 6-4, 10-7
Blue Flight
Kristina Hovsepyan (Maryland) def. Marie-Louise Decamps (GW) 7-5, 6-2
Doubles
White Flight Round-Robin
Shapovalova/Shteyn [Miami (Ohio)] def. Radosavljevic/Decamps (GW) 8-4
Bogicevic/Gulsrud (Marshall) def. Kussainova/Kogan (GW) 6-2
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