Complete Draws

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The LIU Brooklyn women's tennis team opened their 2018 fall season this past weekend, taking part in the Stony Brook Invitational. The Blackbirds had multiple successes in both the singles and the doubles draws, in what would be a rain-shortened event.

In the doubles A draw, the duo of Anna Grigoryan and Jennifer Gogova had a first round win, beating Michal Kaplan and Alejandra Ruffini of Hofstra, 6-3. But the Blackbird pair fell in the quarterfinal round to Jamie Wei and Nolwenn Cardoso from host Stony Brook, 6-2. Also in the A bracket, Sasha Bollweg and Jessica Brzozowska fell in the first round to Payton Bradley and Jennifer Lu of Quinnipiac, 6-3.

LIU had more success in the B double draw, where Malin Leysen and Clemence Krug advanced to the semifinals. The pair opened their draw with a 6-2 win over Nicole Li and Whitney Weisberg of Fordham. They then went on to defeat Brooke Bogdanovich and Tina Liu of Navy, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. The Blackbird duo fell in the semis, 6-4 to Annalise Klopfer and Kacey Moore of Navy.

Krug also had the most singles success, as she advanced to the semis of the D bracket, before rain halted play. The junior beat Tina LI of Navy to open the bracket, 6-1, 6-2. She then beat Alex Mircea of Quinnipiac, 6-0, 6-2. Krug was down 0-2 in the first set to Navy's Moore in the semifinals when the match was called due to weather.

In the A singles bracket, both Grigoryan and Brzozowska fell in the first round. Grigoryan lost to Army's Anna Funaro, 7-5, 7-5, and then had an 8-1 loss to Tiara Higuchi of URI in the back draw. Brzozwoska fell to Navy's Kayla Hodge in the first round, 6-2, 6-1, and also fell in the back draw, dropping an 8-2 decision to Jamie Wei of Stony Brook. 

The B bracket saw Leysen notch a first round win in the third set. The senior beat Caroline Vincent of Army, 6-2, 3-6, 10-6, and advanced to the quarterfinals. There, she took on Navy's Miranda Deng, who won, 7-6(3), 6-4. Also in the B bracket, Bollweg fell to Gloria Son of Army in the first round, 6-4. 6-2. In the back draw, Bollweg notched a win, beating Layla Rodriguez of Quinnipiac, 9-7.

And in the C bracket, Gogova had a first round loss to Katherine Kachkarov of Hofstra, 6-3, 6-2, before beating URI's Paulina Loredo in the back draw, 8-5.

Up next, the Blackbirds head north to take on a competitive field at the Columbia Invitational, Sept. 14-16.