OJAI, Calif. – The University of Redlands Women's Tennis team competed in the 122^nd Annual Ojai Tennis Championships this past week sending six players to compete in both singles and doubles.  The Bulldogs had three of four players in the singles semi-finals and both players in the singles final.

Singles

Rayna Sugai (Las Vegas, NV) led the contingent of Bulldogs competing in singles.  She came in as the No. 2 seed and would go four rounds before winning the singles title.  She had a bye in the opening round before rolling 6-2, 6-0 against Malvika Suryavanshi (Whittier College) and Chanel Zeraatkar (Whittier College).  In the Semi-Finals she then beat the No. 4 seed Elina Shalaev (Occidental College).  In the finals she was matched-up against fellow teammate Kiana Brady (Hermosa Beach, CA) and what a match it was coming from a set down to win 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Brady was the No. 5 seed in the draw and after an opening bye would beat Kylee Limpias (Cal Lutheran) 6-0, 6-1, No. 7 Sebaga Kombo (Occidental College) 7-5, 6-1 and then fellow teammate Deja Brown (San Diego, CA) in the Semi-Finals needing three-sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Brown was tabbed the No. 5 seed and would open with a 6-4, 6-1 win against Alexis Matabuena (Occidental College) in the Round of 16.  She then beat fellow teammate Lindsay Whelan (Mercer Island, WA) in the Quarterfinals 6-3, 7-5 to earn her spot in one of two semi-finals. 

Whelan grabbed an opening win in the Round of 32 beating Madison Ford (Cal Lutheran) 6-4, 1-0 (Ret. Injury) and would follow that up beating Mathilde Depery (Occidental College) 6-3, 7-5 before falling to Brown.

Christine O'Brien (Leawood, KS) also competed in the singles draw but was unable to get out of the Round 16 falling in three-sets to Anya Rajan (Cal Lutheran) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

Doubles

Maegan Deng (Redondo Beach, CA) elected to just play doubles on the week and paired up with Sugai.  But they were unable to get past Lauren Sebastian/Luisa Garcia (Cal Lutheran) in the Quarterfinals falling 8-6. 

Brown and Whelan were put together as a duo for the first time and they pulled out an opening 8-2 win in the Round of 16 beating Malvika Suryavanshi/Inez Meraz-Lerman (Whittier College).  But the very next round they would fall 8-1 to the top seed Carmen Bufkin/Mina Ahmadi (Cal Lutheran). 

The third team the Bulldogs had play was O'Brien and Brady who were the No. 2 seed.  They had an opening bye before rolling 8-1 in the Round of 16 against Alexis Matabuena/Mathilde Depery (Occidental College).  But their run would end after that falling 8-4 to Elina Shalaev/Sebaga Kombo (Occidental College) in the Semi-Finals.     
 
Redlands prepares for their opening round match-up in the upcoming Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Tournament.  The Bulldogs are the No. 3 seed and will travel to take on No. 2 Pomona-Pitzer on Thursday, May 2 beginning at 4:00pm.