Atlantic 10 ReleaseNewport News, Va. (January 28, 2015) – Fordham University freshman
Estelle Wong was named the Atlantic 10 women's tennis rookie of the week it was announced by the league office today. It is the first weekly award for Wong.
The Rams opened their 2015 spring season at the NJIT Winter Invitational where Wong won the B Singles title. Wong opened play with an 8-2 win over LIU's Nancy Zonneveld and then moved to the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Marisa Quevedo from Seton Hall. A 6-1, 6-3 victory over Army's Bridget Guenard advanced Wong to the finals where she defeated her Fordham teammate,
Julie Leong, 6-2 and 6-3.
In double play, Wong teamed with Leong to win their first round match over NJIT's Carolina Zanotta and Nathalie Habegger, 8-5, and then upended Anna Guryanova and Isabelle Klinger from Seton Hall, 8-2. Leong and Wong then took Seton Hall's Liljekvist and Keenan to the limit, falling 8-7 (5).
The Fordham women's tennis team returns to action on Saturday, January 31, as they travel to Reading, Pa., to face Duquesne University in the Hillcrest Racquet Club at 5:00 p.m.
