#3 North Florida & #4 Liberty Advance in #ASUNWTEN Championship Bracket
#3 North Florida & #4 Liberty Advance in #ASUNWTEN Championship Bracket
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - #3 North Florida and #4 Liberty earned a trip to the ASUN Women's Tennis Championship Semifinal after the first day of action on Friday in Fort Myers, Fla. The defending tournament champion, North Florida took down #6 Kennesaw State, 4-0, while the Flames came back to defeat #5 Central Arkansas, 4-2 in the Friday morning matches.
UNF pairs with #2 Stetson while Liberty takes on #1 FGCU in the semifinal matchups beginning on Saturday, April 23 at 9 AM ET on the campus of FGCU with the winners advancing to the Championship Final on Sunday at 10 AM ET. The Championship Final (April 24) will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
Kennesaw State falls to 14-7 on the season while Central Arkansas wrapped up their first season in the league with a 13-11 record as their run in the ASUN Championship comes to a close.
What You Need to Know from Today's Wins
• #3 North Florida 4, #6 Kennesaw State 0
- UNF stormed out to claim the Doubles point with a win by the No. 1 pair Kit Gulihur and Ana Paula Melilo; the pair ranked No. 30 in the ITA rankings won 6-1 over KSU's Ji Youn Lee and Taylor Dean
- Summer Yardley and Annabelle Davis topped Sofia Pinedo and Sophia Unger on Court 3 for the Doubles point to begin the match
- No. 45 Gulihur (No. 1), Davis (No. 3) and Kendall Nash (No. 6) clinched the First Round victory with their Singles wins
• #4 Liberty 4, #5 Central Arkansas 2
- The Flames rattled off four Singles wins to defeat UCA after the Bears took a 2-0 lead to begin the match; Maria Juliana Parra Romero clinched the match with a 7-5, 7-5 victory on Court 1
- UCA earned the program's first two points in the ASUN Championship with a Doubles point from Fuka Nonoyama/Chunxi Xin (No. 1) and Maja Gledic/Sumomo Hamanaga (No. 3) and Nonoyama's Singles win on Court 2
- In Singles play, the Flames' Kalani Soli (No. 3), Esther Lovato (No. 4) and Tiffany Nguyen (No. 6) joined Parra Romero to clinch the First Round victory
Upcoming ASUN Women's Tennis Championship Schedule
Saturday, April 23 - ASUN Semifinals
#1 FGCU vs. #4 Liberty - 9 AM ET
#2 Stetson vs. #3 North Florida - 9 AM ET
Sunday, April 24 - ASUN Championship
TBD vs. TBD - 10 AM ET (ESPN+)
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