Wednesday, 5/21/97 Bruin women fall short of net Of four
players, none make quarterfinal round
By Christie DeBeau Daily Bruin Contributor The NCAA individual
women’s tennis championships rapidly came to an end for the four
Bruins in the tournament. Sophomore Kati Kocsis and freshman Annica
Cooper advanced to the round of 16 on Tuesday but lost their
matches to top-seeded players. Katia Roubanova’s competition was
stopped short when she had to forfeit in the round of 32 due to an
ankle injury. No. 35 Annica Cooper started her morning with a
three-set match, defeating Romana Tedjakusuma from Nicholls State,
6-2, 2-6, 7-5. The win left her too tired to handle Agnes Muzamel
from Mississippi, the tournament’s fourth seed. "The girl I played
was so tough, she was not going to give me any free points," Cooper
said. "I came out of the first match and the first set playing well
but then it got (to be) a little too much for me." Kocsis, ranked
No. 16 in the nation, also won her first match of the day but
struggled in the second. She slaughtered Pepperdine’s Isabela
Petrov, 6-1, 6-0 – payback for her three losses to Petrov earlier
in the season. But she fell to Karin Miller of Duke in the next
round, 7-5, 6-4. Roubanova, who had an ankle injury during the
season, saw it flare up on Tuesday. She did not play her match,
allowing her opponent Wendy Fix from Duke to advance by a walkover.
Roubanova’s scheduled doubles match with freshman Elizabeth Schmidt
was also forfeited. Cooper and Kocsis competed in doubles action
and lost their first-round match to the fourth-ranked team of
Lauren Nikolaus and Johanna Sones, from William and Mary, 6-3. UCLA
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20, 1997