UDC Women's Tennis Sweeps ECC Weekly Awards

WASHINGTON, DC- Polina Zelentsova and Nadja Zmukic earned ECC Player and Rookie of the week Honors as was announced by the conference office this afternoon. Claudia Bahamon Lopez and Desire Parn also earned their spots on the Honor Roll. 

Zelentsova went a perfect 4-0 in conference play, helping the Firebirds to wins over Daemen (6-1) and D'Youville (7-0).  In her match-ups against Daemen, she partnered with Desire Parn to defeat Rubio Talayero and Bella Bjerkan, 6-2, at the No. 1 doubles spot. She went on to blank Kitsa Scime, 6-0, 6-0, at the No.2 position. In the Firebirds' 7-0 sweep of D'Youville, Zelentsova and her partner Parn battled to a 7-6 doubles victory over Mina Randjelovic and Kseniya Zhdanok at No. 1. In singles play, she came back to defeat Mina Randjelovic, 2-6, 7-6, 10-5, at No. 2. 

Zmukic went a perfect 4-0 in conference play, helping the Firebirds to wins over Daemen (6-1) and D'Youville (7-0). In her match-ups against Daemen, she partnered with Lina Benjelloun to defeat Carly Armitage and Stephanie Baier, 6-4, at the No. 3 doubles spot. She went on to defeat Baier, 6-3, 6-4 at the No. 6 spot. In the Firebirds' 7-0 sweep of D'Youville, Zmukic and Benjelloun cruised to a 6-1 victory over Paola Ermina and Yelizaveta Prokopenko at No. 3. In singles play, she swept Prokopenko, 6-0, 6-0, at No. 6.

Bahamon Lopez went 4-0 in a 2-0 week for the Firebirds. In the 6-1 win over Daemen, she partnered with Celia Bastin to defeat Kitsa Scime and Yinnet Del Leon, 6-2, at the No. 2 doubles spot. She went on to defeat Del Leon in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, at the No. 3 singles position. In the 7-0 win over D'Youville, she partnered with Bastin to defeat Yuliia Kashtelian and Maria Campisi, 6-1, at No. 2. She went on to defeat Kashtelian, 1-6, 6-3, 1-0 (7), in a comeback victory at No. 3.

Parn opened up conference play going 3-1 in a 2-0 week for the Firebirds. In UDC's win over Daemen, she partnered with Polina Zelentsova to defeat their opponents Rubio Talayero and Bella Bjerkan, 6-2, at the No. 1 position. In the victory over D'Youville, she picked up wins at the No. 1 spot in both singles and doubles, defeating Kseniya Zhdanok, 6-3, 6-2, in singles and downing Zhdanok and Mina Randjelovic, 7-6 (4) with Zelentsova.