April 19, 2007
Colorado Springs, Colo. – Ola Abou-Zekry earned the New Mexico women’s tennis team’s first Mountain West Conference Player of the Week award along with Kewa Nichols of TCU, announced the conference today.
Abou-Zekry went 6-0 overall last weekend in the final New Mexico tennis matches against Colorado State, Wyoming and Air Force to help New Mexico earn a No. 5 seed for the MWC Championship.
In singles play the Cairo, Egypt native limited each of her three opponents to no more than five points per match while recording straight-set victories at the No. 1 position. She took victories over CSU’s Emily Kirchem (6-1, 6-3), Wyoming’s Karolina Rowinski (6-2, 6-1) and Air Force’s Christine Abayan (6-3, 6-2) to complete her regular-season singles matches.
Abou-Zekry teamed with junior Jennifer Ryba at the No. 2 position to go undefeated in doubles action as well. The duo had a trio of wins against CSU’s Pohjalainen and Strasburger (8-2), Wyoming’s Lazar and Brown (8-3) and Air Force’s Morgan and Walker (8-5).
The efforts of Abou-Zekry helped the New Mexico women’s tennis team to a winning regular-season record (11-10, 4-4 MWC) and to end the season on a four game winning streak before heading into the MWC Championship to take on fourth seeded, No. 49 San Diego State Thursday, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. MT.