No. 14 USC Defeats CSUN 4-0 In Spring Opener

Thursday, January 19

Los Angeles, Calif.

3:00 p.m.

California State University at Northridge

University of Southern California

Photo by: Connor Clark

No. 14 USC Defeats CSUN 4-0 In Spring Opener

1/19/2023 6:29:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Box Score

LOS ANGELES—No. 14 USC defeated CSUN 4-0 in the Spring women's tennis opener for the Matadors Thursday afternoon at Marks Stadium.

Doubles play began with Eryn Cayetano and Madison Sieg, who ranked 20th in the current ITA national poll, defeating Sasha Turchak and Yuliia Zhytelna 6-0 at No. 2 doubles for the Women of Troy. USC clinched the doubles point at No. 1 when Naomi Cheong and Snow Han defeated Jolene Coetzee and Angela Ho 6-1. The No. 3 doubles match between CSUN's Victoria Santibañez Luna, and Cindy Ung, and USC's Grace Piper, and Nathalie Rodilosso was tied at four when the doubles play ended.

McKenna Koenig recorded the first singles point for the Women of Troy when she defeated Zhytelna 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3. Isabelle Lee earned the second USC singles point with a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 6 against Emma Moratalla Sanz. Finally, the Women of Troy clinched the dual at No. 5 doubles when Sloan Morra defeated Vitoria Solis 6-4, 6-2.

Coetzee defeated Grace Piper 6-4 in the first set at No. 1 singles before Piper tied the match 6-1 in the second. Piper was leading 2-1 when the play ended. Turchak dropped the first set to No. 83 Emma Charney 6-4 but led the second 4-3 as play closed. Santbañez Lunz led 5-4 in the first set against Nathalie Rodilosso, but Rodilosso returned to take the first set 7-5. She was leading 5-0 when play was halted. USC improved to 2-0 as the Women of Troy defeated Loyola Marymount 4-0 earlier in the day.

ACCORDING TO HEAD COACH GARY VICTOR

"Our captains, Jojo, Sasha, and Vika, played the most competitive tennis today. Jojo won the first set, Sasha was ahead in the second set, and Vika had a 5-3 lead in the first and was tied at four with Cindy when doubles were stopped. We competed with all we had up and down the line against a highly ranked team that has the potential to win a national championship."

UP NEXT

CSUN hosts William Jessup Saturday at noon in the home opener for the Matadors.