70 // VARSITY April 17, 2014
BY MINDY VAN DYKE @BADGERWTENNIS
Tripolskaya claims career-
best two-match stretch
Sophomore knocks off 20th-ranked player
D
espite having a rough
weekend on the road
as a team, UW sopho-
more Anastasia Tripolskaya
claimed the best two-match
stretch of her career.
Last Saturday and Sunday,
UW fell, 6-1, in matches against
No. 60 Michigan State and No.
14 Michigan. Wisconsin's only
points from the weekend came
from Tripolskaya, and both
points were hard earned in a
third set tiebreaker.
"When you look at 'Nasty's'
results you know that she is
really mentally tough," said
UW head coach Tina Samara.
"She has lost a lot of first sets
and then has come back to win
it in the third set."
Against No. 60 Michigan
State, Tripolskaya played
Catherine Parenteau in No. 3
singles. Tripolskaya ended up dropping
the first set, 6-3, but fought back to take
the second set, 6-4. She then went on to
win the third set, 1-0.
Samara then made the decision to
move Tripolskaya up to play No. 2 singles
against No. 14 Michigan. In her signa-
ture style, Tripolskaya went on to defeat
her first ranked opponent, knocking off
20th-ranked Ronit Yurovsky after rally-
ing back from a first set shutout. Tripol-
skaya turned the tables on Yurovsky to
defeat her, 7-5, in the second set and to
finish her, 1-0, in the third.
"Players come in and out of the rank-
ings every week, but Yurovksy was con-
sistently performing at a high level," Sa-
mara said.
Four of the six conference wins for
Tripolskaya have been in a third set. She
also defeated Shelby Talcott of Iowa, 6-7,
1-6, 6-3, and Carmen Sandor of Penn
State, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, in three sets.
With the two wins from last weekend,
Tripolskaya and Nova Patel lead the team
with a total of six conference wins.
Wisconsin will host its last weekend
of regular season action at Nielsen Ten-
nis Stadium against No. 13 Northwest-
ern and No. 43 Illinois this Saturday and
Sunday.
INSIDE
WOMEN'S TENNIS
SCHEDULE (7-10, 2-7)
LAST THREE
April 6 at #53 Ohio State L, 1-6
April 12 at #60 Michigan State L, 1-6
April 13 at #14 Michigan L, 1-6
THIS WEEK
Saturday Northwestern 11 a.m.
Sunday Illinois 11 a.m.
