Hoisting the hardware for the first time since 2013, Stanford has now won 14 of its last 16 NCAA matches when seeded lower than its opponent, a streak that covers six years.
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After Campbell took the first set, 6-2, Adamovic battled back by winning the first four games of the second set.
In doubles, Aragone and sophomore Collin Altamirano (Sacramento, Calif.) opened the match with a 6-2 victory on court three. The top seed will face UCLA’s 17th-ranked Catherine Harrison in a Round of 32 match on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. In 4 of these matches, the Cardinal were pushed to distance, prevailing in the final 7th match, and they were also on a verge of defeat in the final as well, trailing 3-1. Both qualified for the NCAA singles championships field. “It is the second straight season that Yurovsky has picked up a win in the first round of the NCAA Singles Tournament”.
Freshman Brienne Minor saw her singles season come to an end with a 6-3, 6-4 loss to No. 8 Sinead Lohan of Miami.
In singles, the Hoos jumped out to early leads at #4, 5 and 6 singles, and rode them to easy first set wins. She stormed to win the next two sets, keeping her school in life, and she and Lampl did a fantastic job at this championship, with 11-0 overall score!
“I heard Caroline Lampl scream from the back courts and I knew that she had won her match”, Davidson said.
The Wolverine captain broke on a deuce point to start the third and took a 2-0 lead, before Vale Costa returned the favor with two straight games to knot the third at 2-2.
Leading 3-1, OSU needed only one point to lock up the championship. Viktoriya Lushkova/Carla Tur Mari (OSU) vs Melissa Lord/Carol Zhao (STAN) 5-5 Unfinished 3.
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In front of more than 1,600 fans at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center on the University of Tulsa campus, Oklahoma State’s Vladica Babic and Stanford’s Taylor Davidson went toe-to-toe to determine whose team would win the national championship. Krista Hardebeck (STAN) vs Kelsey Laurente (OSU) 6-4 6-4 5.
