Posted by Darrell Orand - Fri, May 18, 2007 - [ Women's Tennis ] - Viewed 457 times

Mobile, Ala. -  At the NAIA National Tennis Championship Finals held in Mobile, Ala., Auburn University Montgomery’s No. 1 ranked women’s tennis team took two of three doubles matches from No. 2 Fresno Pacific (Calif.) University and won the singles events three matches to two to take a 5-3 win and claim their fourth consecutive National Championship.  The title gives AUM (30-1) an NAIA record eighth overall title in women’s tennis including 1992, 1999, 2000 and 2001.

 
Tereza Veverkova and Hanna Kuervers won the opening doubles match with Yudeshnee Pillay and Nadia Lysak taking victory in the third and final doubles match.
 
In singles action, Pillay took a straight set victory in the fourth match as Lysak dominated her opponent in straight sets in the fifth match.  At the end, the championship came down to Veverkova’s singles match and she proved equal to the task, winning the first set 7-6 on a 7-5 tiebreaker win and then finding the stamina to outlast her opponent in a second 7-6 victory that ended with a marathon 11-9 tiebreaker.
 
Following the matches, AUM Head Coach Scott Kidd was named the NAIA Coach of the Year for the third consecutive year and Czech Republic native Veverkova, who finished the year with a 26-0 record, was named the Marvin P. Richmond Outstanding Player of the Year.  That marks the eighth time in the program’s history that an AUM women’s coach has been named national coach of the year and the fourth time that a Lady Senator has received the Outstanding Player Award.
 

With the AUM men taking the Men’s National Championship earlier on Friday morning, the Senators have won an unofficial record of 15 combined NAIA National Championships in team tennis.  The Lady Senators have appeared in 15 of the last 17 NAIA Team Tennis Finals compiling an 8-7 record.