Hoosiers Top Cornell, 6-1

Friday, February 23

Ithaca, N.Y.

5:00 PM

Indiana University

Cornell

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2/23/2018 8:13:00 PM | Women's Tennis

ITHACA, N.Y. – The Indiana women's tennis team cruised to a 6-1 win on the road at Cornell on Friday at the Reis Tennis Center.

The Hoosiers improve to 10-2 on the season, their best start since the 2010-11 season.

It started with doubles victories from Natalie Whalen and Olga Zavarotnaya and Madison Appel and Michelle McKamey to give the Hoosiers the doubles point. Indiana has now only lost the doubles point in one of their 12 matches this season.

Indiana won five of six first sets in singles and got straight set wins from Natalie Whalen, Caitlin Bernard and Michelle McKamey to clinch the match.

Madison Appel improved to 9-0 in dual match singles with a 6-4, 6-4 win at the No. 1 singles position.

Up next the Hoosiers take on No. 25 Princeton in Princeton, N.J., on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

Indiana 6, Cornell 1

Doubles
Natalie Whalen/Olga Zavarotnaya (IU) def. Priyanka Shah/Ananya Dua (Cornell) 6-4
Madison Appel/Michelle McKamey (IU) def. Mariko Iinuma/Cheyenne Lilienthal (Cornell) 6-2
Madison Stevens/ Michelle Wang (Cornell) def. Caitlin Bernard/Jelly Bozovic (IU) 6-1

Singles
Madison Appel (IU) def. Priyanka Shah (Cornell) 6-4, 6-4
Caitlin Bernard (IU) def. Mariko Iinuma (Cornell) 6-1, 6-4
Natalie Whalen (IU) def. Ananya Dua (Cornell) 6-1, 6-0
Cheyenne Lilienthal (Cornell) def. Xiwei Cai (IU) 7-5, 6-3
Michelle McKamey (IU) def. Madison Stevens (Cornell) 6-4, 6-4
Olga Zavarotnaya (IU) def. Michelle Wang (Cornell) 6-3, 7-6