SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—The Drury women's tennis team won two of three doubles matches and five of six in singles play to take a 6-1 win over Newman at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield on Sunday.
 
The Panthers took a 1-0 lead after doubles as Drury's number one team of Kseniia Eremina and Viktoriya Zheleva clinched the match's first point a  6-4 win.
 
Drury took five singles matches, winning in positions two through six. Maria de la Torre won 6-2, 6-0, and Kseniia Eremina made quick her of her opponent 6-2, 6-1. Alma Abazi improved to 4-0 on the season with a 6-1, 6-3 victory.
 
The Panthers improved to 3-1 on the season with the win.
 
Drury goes on the road for the first time this year next Saturday when they travel to Arkansas Tech for a 1 pm match in Russellville, Arkansas.
 
Drury 6 Newman 1
Singles Competition
1. Emily Young (New) def. Nastasia Jedrychowski (DU) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
2. Alma Abazi (DU) def. Marie Brunet (New) 6-1, 6-3
3. Viktoriya Zheleva (DU) def. Isabela Campos (New) 7-5, 6-4
4. Clara Kuehnle (DU) def. Antonia Ramos (New) 6-4, 6-2
5. Kseniia Eremina (DU) def. Mirella Cavalcanti (New) 6-2, 6-1
6. Maria Fernanda De la Torre Ugarte Espejo (DU) def. Lauren Esfeld (New) 6-2, 6-0
 
Doubles Competition
1. Eremina/Zheleva (DU) def. Young/Ramos (New) 6-4
2. Brunet/Campos (New) def. Jedrychowski/Mukherjee (DU) 7-6
3. De La Torre/Kuehnle (DU) def. Cavalcanti/Esfeld (New) 6-3
 
 
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