Katims, Ahmes Lead Women's Tennis At USTA Tournament
October 13, 2003 | Women's Tennis
NEW YORK - Freshman Erin Katims (Boca Raton, FL) and sophomore Laura Ahmes (Sarasota, FL) each posted two wins in singles competition to highlight the Terrier women's tennis team's performance at the USTA National Tennis Center College Invitational over the weekend.
The tournament was held at the tennis center where the U.S. Open is held. In fact, next to the Open, it was the largest tournament held at the tennis center, as 16 schools were involved. Among the 16 were Harvard and the Universities of Kansas, Kentucky, Washington, and Michigan, all of which played in the 2002 NCAA Division 1 Tournament. The other teams that participated were Boston College, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Army, Rutgers, and Penn State.
After losing her first match in B Flight singles to Kentucky's Danielle Petrisko, 6-0, 6-3, Katims came back to win her next two matches-6-4, 6-2 over Kentucky's Kristen Steinbeck and 4-6-, 6-4 (16-14) over Princeton's Jessica Seibet.
In the meantime, Ahmes, playing in C Flight singles, also lost her first march, 6-0, 6-0, to the University of Pennsylvania's Raluca Clochina and then bounced back to defeat Mateya McCoy, 6-2, 6-4, and Cornell's Melissa Tu, 6-4, 7-6.
Then, in the doubles competition, playing in Flight A, Katims teamed with Ahmes to post a 1-2 record. They defeated Brown, 8-4, but lost to Harvard, 8-3, and Boston College, 8-5.
Seniors Lindsey Dynof (Colts Neck, NJ) and Elena deMendoza (Madrid, Spain) competed in the A Flight singles. Dynof, who has the Terriers' best singles record this fall with a 7-4 mark, won her first match over Princeton's Stephanie Berg, 6-2, 7-6. She then lost back-to-back matches to Washington's Dinka Hadzic, 6-3, 6-3, and to Kansas' Emily Haylock, 7-5, 6-3.
DeMendoza lost to Harvard's Melissa Anderson, 6-1, 6-1, and Rutgers' Andrea Wickstein, 6-3, 7-5.
The pair teamed up to play doubles in A Flight and posted a 1-2 record. They lost their first match to Kentucky, 8-2, then came back to defeat Rutgers, 8-1. Then, in their third match, they dropped a 9-7 decision to Princeton.
Senior Elisa Glas (Irun, Spain) played in B Flight singles, as did Katims and went 0-3. She lost to Lara Maurer of Kentucky, 6-1, 6-0, to Rutgers' Ketevan Shmakova, 6-7, 6-4, (10-7), and to Princeton's Laura Trimble.
Sophomore Aimee Charest (Somerset) played in C Flight singles, along with Ahmes and finished 1-2. She lost to Boston College's Emily Hellberg, 6-3, 6-4, and to Michigan's Debra Streifer, 6-0, 6-0, before winning her final match, 6-3, 6-0, over Army's Christine Bickster, 6-3, 6-0.
In doubles, she teamed with freshman Gabrielle Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA) to post a 2-1 record. They opened with an 8-1 win over Army and then defeated Kansas, 8-3, before they lost their final match, 8-5, to the University of Pennsylvania.
Sophomore Monica Shepherd (Austin, TX) and Hernandez each played D Flight singles, and each finished with a 1-2 record. After losing her first match to Michigan's Lindsey Goldstein, 6-4, 6-1, Shepherd came back to defeat Columbia's Samantha Feingold, 6-3, 6-2. She then lost her final singles match to the University of Pennsylvania's Michelle Yeh, 6-3, 6-4.
Hernandez lost her first two matches before ending on a successful note with a win in her third singles match. She dropped a 6-3, 6-0 decision to Kendall Murphy and 6-3, 6-1 to Anna Varney, both of whom play at Columbia. Hernandez then closed out with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Army's Amanda McGlorick.
In doubles play, Shepherd teamed with Glas, while Hernandez, as noted about, played with Charest. The Shepherd-Glas duo posted a 2-1 win. They defeated Brown, 8-3, in their first match and then lost to Boston College, 8-5, before ending their matches with an 8-1 win over Army.
