Women's Tennis Makes Mark at Penn Invite

Friday, September 13

Philadelphia, Pa.

University of Delaware

Penn Invite

Photo by: Claire Kaufmann

9/15/2024 10:20:00 PM | Women's Tennis

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Delaware women's tennis team members Paulina Jurkowska, Maryia Hrynashka, Nisan Can, and Cornelia Käck stood their ground against Syracuse, Mizzou, Temple, Penn, and Saint Joseph's this weekend at the Penn Invite.

ON THE RECORD – "I am very encouraged with what I saw this weekend and I am super proud of the way we competed with these power five schools," head coach Pablo Montana said. "We had nice wins over Syracuse and Mizzou, and every day we continued to battle and push our limits. We also had nice wins over Penn and Temple; Congrats to Paulina for going undefeated in all her matches."

HEN HIGHLIGHTS

All four doubles matches played against Temple on Friday ended in a Blue Hen win.
Both Saturday doubles matches ended in a straight set against Penn.
Hrynashka, Jurkowska, & Käck all picked up singles wins in their respective Sunday matches.
Jurkowska finished the invite undefeated in both singles & doubles matches.

GAME NOTES

Can & Käck both made their collegiate & Blue Hen debut.

FULL RESULTS – FRIDAY, SEPT. 13
DOUBLES I
Maryia Hrynashka/Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Nina Andreoni/Martyna Mackiewicz (TEM) 8-4
Nisan Can/Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Shevita Aulana/Maria Wang Martinez (TEM) 8-4
DOUBLES II
Maryia Hrynashka/Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Kelly Richter/Irmak Ozturk (TEM) 9-8 (7)
Nisan Can/Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Aditi Vaidya/Jessie Zheng (TEM) 8-4

SINGLES
Maryia Hrynashka (DEL) def. Thamara Frasser Kawartani (TEM) 6-3, 7-6 (3)
Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Nina Andreoni (TEM) 6-3, 6-2
Marianthi Christoforidou (TEM) def. Nisan Can (DEL) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Aditi Vaidya (TEM) 6-1, 6-2

FULL RESULTS – SATURDAY, SEPT. 14
DOUBLES
Maryia Hrynashka/Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Maya Urata/Gavriella Smith (PENN) 8-6
Nisan Can/Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Sasha Motlagh/Sarah Wang (PENN) 8-7

SINGLES I
Eileen Wang (PENN) def. Maryia Hrynashka (DEL) 6-2, 7-5
Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Liza Tkachenko (PENN) 6-1, 6-3
Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Sasha Motlagh (PENN) 6-4, 6-2
Nisan Can (DEL) def. Saige Roshkoff (PENN) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
SINGLES II
Maryia Hrynashka (DEL) def. Anastasia Sysoeva (SYR) 7-6, 6-4
Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Shiori Ito (SYR) 6-4, 6-3
Serafima Shastova (SYR) def. Cornelia Käck (DEL) 6-0, 6-2
Constance Levivier (SYR) def. Nisan Can (DEL) 6-3, 7-6

FULL RESULTS – SUNDAY, SEPT. 15
DOUBLES
Maryia Hrynashka/Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Shiori Ito/Serafima Shastova (SYR) 8-7 (11)
Cornelia Käck/Nisan Can (DEL) def. Gisele Tang (SJU)/Sabine Rutlauka (PENN) 8-5

SINGLES
Maryia Hrynashka (DEL) def. Inah Canete (MIZZ) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
Paulina Jurkowska (DEL) def. Korina Roso (MIZZ) 6-1, 6-3
Lailaa Bashir (MIZZ) def. Nisan Can (DEL) 7-5, 6-3
Cornelia Käck (DEL) def. Marianthi Christoforidou (TEM) 6-3, 6-0

UP NEXT
Delaware will welcome teams to Newark for the UD Invite this weekend.

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