ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Lobo women’s tennis team dropped its second match at the ITA Kick-off, losing 4-0 to Georgia State when Ludivine Burguiere couldn’t play through leg cramps in the third set. The loss dropped UNM to 0-2 on the season, with the Lobos taking on Denver and Colorado next weekend on the road.
UNM dropped the doubles point despite picking up the teams’ first individual win of the season. Ludivine Burguire and Dominique Dukakis dropped Georgia State’s duo of Arina Taluyenko and Tarani Kamoe 6-2, but almost immediately after, Andrea Leblanc and Diana Wong lost at No. 2 singles to even the match up. However, with No. 3 doubles tie at 4-4, Ruth Copas and Cassie Chung were broken in the ninth game, and lost 6-4.
In singles play, UNM dropped all three, but all three went three sets, and a fourth was in a tiebreaker when the match ended. It looked good early with Dulski and Leblanc winning 6-3 decisions, but Burguire and Copas dropped their opening sets. Each of the four flipped the script in the second, forcing all four matches to a third set. However, they weren’t really even as Burguire was involved in a much longer marathon, as was Leblanc.
Dulski was the first to drop her match at No. 3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, and then Copas followed at No. 4 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. That would have ended it but Burguire was brilliant, fighting off a match point and winning the second set in a tiebreaker 8-6. While was happening, Leblanc dropped her second set to move to a third set.
However, while Leblanc was readying for her third set tiebreaker, Burguire went down with a cramp at 3-2, took an injury timeout and attempted to continue, but after dropping the sixth game to go down 4-2, she retired, ending the match.
UNM’s two freshmen did get onto the court, with Diana Wong losing her first set 6-4, and Cassie Chung leading 3-1 when everything stopped.
The Lobos played both matches without two of its top seniors in Rachana Bhat and Emily Olivier.
Lobos Drop 4-0 Decision to Georgia State
