Oct. 23, 2009

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. --- Six North Carolina singles players and three doubles teams are still alive after day two of the Wilson/ITA Carolinas Regional Championships the Indoor Tennis Center on the campus of Wake Forest University. Top-seed Sanaz Marand, seventh-seeded Katrina Tsang, Jelena Durisic, Haley Hemm, Gina Suarez-Malaguti and Zoe De Bruycker all advanced to the round of 32 in the singles event, which continues Saturday.

In doubles action, the top-seeded and defending champion pair of Marand and Sophie Grabinski did not drop a game in moving to the quarterfinals. They are joined in the final eight by third-seeded Tsang and Shinann Featherston and the sophomore duo of Hemm and Jocelyn Ffriend. Hemm and Ffriend were the only unseeded tandem to knock off a seed, beating sixth-seeded Lenka Hojckova and Sandhya Nagaraj in the round of 16, 8-4.

UNC leads all schools with six players still alive in the final 32 of the singles event. Marand, ranked No. 12 nationally and the top seed in the event, breezed into the second round with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Winthrop's Yasmine Alkema. Tsang, the No. 7 seed in the tournament, also advanced with little trouble, dropping Kayla Schwenk of UNC Wilmington, 6-1, 6-1.

Play continues throughout the weekend with championships to be held on Monday. For more information, check back to TarHeelBlue.com or visit the event's official Web site here.

Singles
Sanaz Marand (UNC) def. Yasmine Alkema (Winthrop), 6-1, 6-0
Reka Zsilinkska (Duke) def. Jocelyn Ffriend (UNC), 6-2, 6-2
Gina Suarez-Malaguti (UNC) def. Ioana Oprea (G-W), 6-4, 6-2
Jelena Durisic (UNC) def. Andrea Rivera (Charlotte), 6-2, 6-3
Monica Gorny (Duke) def. Sophie Grabinski (UNC), 6-2, 6-3
Nelly Ciolkowski (CU) def. Jennifer Stone (UNC), 6-2, 6-3
Katrina Tsang (UNC) def. Kayla Schwenk (UNCW), 6-1, 6-1
Haley Hemm (UNC) def. Valerie Behr (UNCG), 6-4, 6-2
Ellah Nze (Duke) def. Shinann Featherston (UNC), 6-1, 6-3
Zoe De Bruycker (UNC) def. Alex Zinn (Charlotte), 6-2, 6-0
Emma Hayman (CofC) def. Linzee Mabrey (UNC), 6-3, 6-1

Doubles
Sanaz Marand/Sophie Grabinski (UNC) def. Jennifer Ansari/Amanda Cash (ASU), 8-0
Marand/Grabinski (UNC) def. Annette Rios/Jessica Eblen (UNCG), 8-0
Haley Hemm/Jocelyn Ffriend (UNC) def. Elizaveta Zaytseva/Yasmine Alkema (Winthrop), 8-6
Hemm/Ffriend (UNC) def. Lenka Hojckova/Sandhya Nagaraj (NCSU), 8-4
Jennifer Stone/Jelena Durisic (UNC) def. Katarina Reveche/Ryann Cutillo (WFU), 8-1
Amanda Granson/Ellah Nze (Duke) Stone/Durisic (UNC), 8-1
Katrina Tsang/Shinann Featherston (UNC) def. Emilee Malvehy/Kathyrn Talbert (WFU), 8-1
Tsang/Featherston (UNC) def. Cristina Garcia/Ana Surviladze (Campbell), 8-3
Reka Zsilinszka/Liz Plotkin (Duke) def. Gina Suarez-Malaguti/Zoe De Bruycker (UNC), 8-5