Sept. 23, 2001
ATLANTA – The Georgia Tech women’s tennis team continued to build on a successful weekend at the St. Mary’s Health System Classic in Knoxville, Tenn., winning three of four matches on the final day of competition. The three-day tournament was contested at the University of Tennessee Tennis Center.
Yellow Jacket freshman Catherine Gunn was the winner of the Flight Three consolation bracket, as she won her second-straight match in a straight-set win over Minnesota’s Michaela Havelkova on Sunday. Gunn picked up the win by a 6-4, 6-4 score. Joining Gunn with a consolation-bracket win was sophomore Kristen Roberson, who cruised, in her final match of the weekend, blanking Minnesota’s Kelly Perry in a 6-0, 6-0 rout.
Tech’s third winner of the day was senior Laura Ozolins, who captured her first victory of the new year in the Flight Four seventh-place match, as she downed Laura Bugarello of Purdue in a 6-2, 7-6 (10-8), straight-set affair. Junior Jaime Wong reached the consolation final of Flight Two, but was unable to oust Minnesota’s Amy Thomas, falling in straight sets, 3-6, 2-6.
The Yellow Jackets will now take a week off, before returning to action during the weekend of October 5-7, when Tech will have players competing in both the Florida State and South Carolina Fall Invitationals, in Tallahassee, Fla., and Columbia, S.C., respectively.
Georgia Tech’s Women’s Tennis Results Singles
Catherine Gunne (GT) d. Michaela Havelkova (Minn.), 6-4, 6-4
Kristen Roberson (GT) d. Kelly Perry (Minn.), 6-0, 6-0
Laura Ozolins (GT) d. Laura Bugarello (Purdue), 6-2, 7-6 (10-8)
Amy Thomas (Minn.) d. Jaime Wong (GT), 6-3, 6-2
