Women's Tennis Falls, 5-2, at Drexel on Friday

Box Score

Philadelphia – The Fordham women's tennis team fell, 5-2, to Drexel on Friday afternoon at Legacy Center for the team's first loss of the season. The Rams continue forward now with a 1-1 record. The Dragons improve to a 3-0 mark.
 
Fordham took the first of three doubles matches but Drexel battled back and earned the hard-fought doubles point. Ultimately it wouldn't matter as the hosts held a 4-2 advantages in singles contests on the day.
 
Mayu Sato and Hannah Drayton combined for a 6-4 victory over the duo of Honami Yazawa and Clary Rodriguez Cruz, who had not lost up until that point. However, the Dragons battled back with victories over Gianna Insogna and Destiny Grunin, 6-2, in the second contest, and Alexis Zobeideh and Estelle Wong in the third. With their victories, Sato and Drayton improve to 12-2 and 10-3, respectively, in doubles play this season and 5-1 as a pair.
 
In singles play, Yazawa got the hosts going with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Sato, just the junior's third singles loss of the season, before Wong evened things up for the visitors with a 6-3, 6-3 defeat of Erin Bowsher. The next match between Drexel's Rodriguez Cruz and Fordham's Drayton may have been the catalyst for the eventual match win – a three-set grind for both women – with Rodriguez Cruz coming out on top after dropping the first set, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Lea Winkler would defeat Zobeideh in match four after a first-set tiebreak, 7-6 (2), 6-2, before Kendra Bunch capped off the team effort with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Grunin. Freshman Gianna Isogna did get one last point for the Rams in the day's final match with a 1-6, 6-4, 10-3 hard-earned victory over Ryshena Providence.
 
The Rams get a two-week break before returning to action on Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14^th, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J. Matches will begin at 1 p.m.
 
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RESULTS
Singles
Honami Yazawa (DU) def. Mayu Sato (FU), 6-4, 6-4
Estelle Wong (FU) def. Erin Bowsher (DU), 6-3, 6-3
Clary Rodriguez Cruz (DU) def. Hannah Drayton (FU), 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
Lea Winkler (DU) def. Alexis Zobeideh (FU), 7-6 (2), 6-2
Kendra Bunch (DU) def. Destiny Grunin (FU), 6-0, 6-4
Gianna Insogna (FU) def. Ryshena Providence (DU), 1-6, 6-4, 10-3
 
Doubles
Sato & Drayton (FU) def. Yazawa & Rodriguez Cruz (DU), 6-4
Winkler & Bunch (DU) def. Insogna & Grunin (FU), 6-2
Providence & Bowsher (DU) def. Zobeideh & Wong (FU), 6-4