BLOOMSBURG, Pa.- Delaney Tingle (Charlotte, N.C./Palm Desert High) punched her ticket to the singles round of 32 on Saturday morning with a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) victory over Fabienne Lahn of Davis & Elkins to lead the West Chester University women's tennis team on day one of the ITA Atlantic Regionals at Bloomsburg.
Tingle, playing alongside rookie
Alexandra Cave (Greenmeadows Napier, New Zealand/Woodford House) also won her opening-round doubles match, defeating Emma Semery and Isabela De Nadai by a 6-2 final before falling to the Charleston duo of Sara Martinez and Michelle Connor by a 6-0 final in the round of 16.
Singles:
Amaia Brau Balaguer (ROCK) def.
Alexandra Cave (WCU) 6-2, 6-3
Dasha Nakonechna (Bloomsburg) def. Gabriella Lerario Dos Santos (WCU) 7-5, 6-4
Delaney Tingle (WCU) def. Fabienne Lahn (D&E) 6-0, 7-6 (7-4)
Sneha Sundaraneedi (WVWC) def.
Ashleigh Grooms (WCU) 6-2, 6-2
Doubles:
Tingle/Cave (WCU) def. Semery/De Nadai (Kutztown) 6-2
Sara Martinez/Michelle Connor (Charleston) def. Tingle/Cave (WCU) 6-0
Ariel Kelsick/Louise Boyer Vidal (ESU) def. Lerario Dos Santos/Grooms (WCU) 6-3
West Chester will return to action for the second day of competition tomorrow morning beginning at 9 a.m.