Oct. 21, 2007

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-- At the Wilson/ITA Midwest Regional Championships, four women's tennis players are still eying a title run in their respective singles and doubles draws.

As the tournament's No. 1 single's seed, Georgia Rose (Mettawa, Ill./North Shore Country Day) has lived up to expectations through the quarterfinals as she has yet to lose a set against her three over-matched opponents.

The tournament's No. 2 seed also remains alive in the bottom half of the draw as NU's Sam Murray (Altrincham, England/Altrincham Grammar) has also breezed through the competition, dropping just one set thus far. Suzie Matzenauer (Tacoma, Wash./Bellarmine) and Maria Mosolova (Moscow, Russia) both made it to the round of 16, while Nazlie Ghazal (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) and Lauren Lui (Houston, Texas/Kinkaid) fell in the earlier portion of the draw.

In doubles, all four pairs of Northwestern's doubles teams made it to the quarterfinals, while Rose and Lui have continued on to the finals. Rose and Lui had yet to allow an opponent to come closer than an 8-4 win until the semifinals, where they scratched out a 9-8(5) victory. In the finals, Rose and Lui face Brook Buck and Kelcy Tefft of Notre Dame, who came in as the tournament's No. 1-seeded duo.

In the quarterfinal round, both Ghazal and Keri Robison (Decatur, Ill./Florida) and Matzenauer and Murray were edged out by teams from Notre Dame by scores of 8-6 and 8-5, respectively. Conill and Mosolova reached the semifinals, but were also defeated by the same Fighting Irish pair that downed Ghazal and Robison, 9-7.