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Lady Tigers Defeat UNC Greensboro, 9-0

Feb. 12, 2000

CLEMSON, SC – Clemson won all six singles matches in straight sets to register a 9-0 women’s tennis victory over UNC Greensboro on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Tigers improved to 2-1 with the triumph.

Carmina Giraldo, a sophomore from Columbia, South America, won the number-one singles match with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Jenny Gonzalez of UNC-G. It was the second victory of the weekend for Clemson’s number-one player. She upset Esther Knox of Georgia, the number-eight ranked player in the nation, on Friday in a 6-4, 6-3 triumph.

Clemson’s Renatha Brito did not lose a game in defeating Kelly Edwards of UNC Greensboo, 6-0, 6-0. Laurence Jayet, just a freshman, won over Amanda Eutzler, 6-0, 6-1. Catherine Galvin, Cinthia Clausen and Anna Savitskaya also gained singles victories for Nancy Harris’s team.

Singles:

#1 Carmina Giraldo (C) d. Jenny Gonzalez (UNC-G)   6-1, 6-0#2 Catherin Galvin (C) d. Christine Weber (UNC-G)  6-1, 6-3#3 Cynthia Clausen (C) d. Michaela Quinn (UNC-G)   6-2, 6-0#4 Anna Savitskaya (C) d. Ashley Rimel (UNC-G)     6-1, 6-0#5 Laurence Jayet (C) d. Amanda Eutzler (UNC-G)    6-0, 6-1#6 Renato Brito (C) d. Kelly Edwards (UNC-G)       6-0, 6-0

Doubles

#1 Giraldo-Brito (C) d. Gonzalez-Quinn (UNC-G)             8-2#2 Galvin-Clausen (C) d.  Weber-Eutzler (UNC-G)            8-2#3 Ana Stiglic-Sunnie Harmon (C) d. Edwards-Rimel (UNC-G)  8-2

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