Wildcat tennis defeats No. 68 Nebraska 4-1 – Kansas State Collegian

Then-junior Ioana Gheorghita prepares to receive a serve on Oct. 30, 2020. (Archive photo by Macey Franko | Collegian Media Group) After back-to-back losses, the Kansas State tennis team defeated No. 68 Nebraska 4-1 on March 2 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Starting off in doubles, the first match to finish was freshman Florentine Dekkers and senior Ioana Gheorghita against the Cornhusker’s Kristina Novak and Maja Makoric. Dekkers and Gheorghita fell 6-1, with Nebraska winning the first match. The second match was seniors Karine-Marion Job and Maria Linares against Ellie Kuckelman and Samantha Alicea. Job and Linares were able to even off the contest for the doubles point 6-4, placing freshman Dinara Alloyarova and senior Anna Turco in a position to secure the Wildcats the doubles point. The freshman-senior duo finished off the doubles contest, winning the doubles point by beating Chloe Kuckelman and Isabel A. Gallego 6-3. The Wildcats then carried their success from the doubles matches into the singles matches. Linares was the first player to finish her match, only conceding one game to Gallego, winning 6-1, 6-0, and giving K-State its second point. Senior Rosanna Maffei’s match was the second singles match to end. Maffei faced off against Kuckelman,…
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