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North Carolina sophomore Sanaz Marand sets her feet after a serve in the Tar Heels' season-opening doubleheader Friday at the Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center. UNC shut out both UNC-Greensboro and Elon by scores of 7-0 before dropping to 2-1 on Monday with a loss at Tennessee.
UNC men struggle with Duke
BY JORDAN MASON
STAFF WRITER
DURHAM - The North
Carolina mens tennis team is not
exactly in regular season mode
with just nine practices since the
start of the semester.
There’s nothing like head-to-head
play against Duke to prepare the
team for its season-opening match
against Campbell on Jan. 29.
“It feels like a duel match,” UNC
sophomore Stefan Hardy said of
the exhibition competition.
“It’s always going to be serious
anytime you play a rival like that
The Tar Heels faced Duke at
the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center
on Monday to finish its round
robin schedule at the Duke Indoor
Invitational. UNC competed
against Michigan on Saturday in
Durham and Elon on Sunday in
Chapel Hill in the first two head
to-head competitions.
The invitational was not scored
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But the Tar Heels still benefit
ted from the competition despite
its unusual format.
“We get to see where the kids
are and what we need to do,” UNC
coach Sam Paul said.
The team's needs were very evi
dent Monday as North Carolina lost
twice as many singles matches as it
won. Paul said the team is not sharp
after being off for nearly a month.
But the team was not disap
pointed with its early season per
formance.
‘Everybody is fighting,” senior
David Stone said. “And that’s all
you can ask for."
The Tar Heels did manage to
capture the doubles title at the
invitational as Hardy and sopho
more Clay Donato picked up an 8-3
win against the Blue Devils' David
Goulet and Alain Michel to push
into first place and remain unde-
Tennis
Stefan Hardy
The sophomore
captured the
doubles title
with sophomore
UNC teammate
Clay Donato.
feated on the weekend.
The highlight in singles play came
Sunday as the team won all but one
of its matches against Elon.
“We’re right there,” Hardy said of
how far the team is from where it
needs to be.
“Come regular season, every
body is going to be ready.”
The Tar Heels achieved this suc
cess with usual contributors like
Lenny Gullan and Chris Kearney
watching from the stands. Both sat
out with injuries that Paul said were
not minor.
The coach said the bigger con
cern for the team is becoming duel-
match-ready.
“We need matches.” he said. “But
it’s no excuse for our performance.”
The only Tar Heels to finish in the
top 10 in singles competition were
Stone and junior Taylor Fogleman
as both tied for seventh place.
But Hardy said the experience
that came with these matches is
why the team played in the invita
tional in the first place.
“We’re all still finding our
games," he said.
Stone said it will be particularly
important to find that game early
this season with difficult matches
like Ohio State in the next month.
But he expects this weekend to
help that process.
“We’re going to take a lot that we
learned and put it into practice and
work on it," he said.
“And hopefully it will pay off."
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22. 2008
BY JOE MCLEAN
STAFF WRITER
While top-shelf talent is never a
bad thing, it always helps to have
the depth to back it up. So far in
January, the North Carolina wom
en's tennis team has shown it has
plenty of both.
Katrina
Tsang. Austin
Smith and
0 Laura Reichert
1 were welcomed
home by their
team from a
tournament in
' Las Vegas with
resounding
victories in a
4 season-opening
WOMENS
TENNIS
Elon
UNC
UNC-G
UNC
UNC
Tennessee
doubleheader
Friday at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis
Center.
Neither UNC-Greensboro (0-1)
nor Elon (0-2) won a set in singles
play against the Tar Heels, who
registered dual 7-0 victories. The
team was efficient in doubles play
as well, particularly in the second
match of the day against Elon.
“I was really impressed with our
doubles energy and our communi
cation, so I think that’s a key thing
for us," coach Brian Kalbas said. “For
us to he a good team, we re going to
have to win the doubles point.”
UNC (2-1) beat Elon in the three
doubles match-ups by scores of 8-
0. 8-0 and 8-1.
Earlier this month in Las Vegas.
Tsang and Smith advanced to the
doubles finals of the 2008 Freeman
Memorial Tennis Championship.
Tsang also reached the finals of the
singles bracket in her first competi
tive event since returning from hip
surgery.
“She played awesome," Smith
said. “She played unbelievable.
I was very impressed, since she
hadn't played since, like. May.”
Tsang last competed in the NCAA
tournaments last year and went to
1-as Vegas simply to get a few match
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impressed with our
doubles energy and
communication , so
I think thats a key."
BRIAN KALBAS, coach
es in before the season started.
“I definitely got as much ten
nis as I could.” Tsang said. “I really
had no idea what would happen.
I came close to losing first round
even, and I had three-set matches
every single match.”
The only rusty sign Tsang
showed Friday was when she nailed
Reichert in the back of the head on
match point of her second doubles
match. Reichert was fine, and
moments later the pair finished off
their almost flawless victory.
“We actually were trying to set
up a point there to try to end it well
because w'e were up 7-0," Tsang
said. “It’s all good. We had a good
laugh about it."
The Tar Heels had those two
spring victories under their belts
before they traveled to No. 22
Tennessee for their first major
match of the season Monday.
The Volunteers took the dou
bles point to gain an early lead.
The match would eventually come
down to the No. 6 singles match,
in which Meg Fanjoy lost to No. 95
Zsofia Zubor in three sets, giving
Tennessee (2-0) the 4-3 victory.
And closely contested matches
could be a norm for this UNC team
when conference play begins.
"Our schedule, our conference,
is incredibly tough, so we’re going
to have to be mentally committed
throughout and finishing strong
throughout the matches and in
great physical shape.” Kalbas said.
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
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