DES MOINES, IOWA - The Wichita State women's tennis team won five of the six draws, with four of the final matches being all-Shocker affairs at the Drake Invitational.
 
On the doubles courts, every Shocker pair that competed made it to the finals of their bracket. Sarvinoz Saidhujaeva and Esther Thebault defeated Ting-Ya Hsu and LingWei Kong, 8-4, in the A bracket and in the B bracket Sandra Honigova and Marta Bellucco prevailed over Alexandra Lazarova and Natsumi Kurahashi, 8-6.
 
The Shockers also found success in the singles brackets. Flight A saw Thebault defeat USD's Jana Lazarevic, 7-5, 6-0, for first place and the third-place match featured Saidhujaeva overcome Creighton's Kate Kreuger, 6-1, 6-4. Lazarova won flight B by beating Hsu, 6-4, 3-6, 10-1, and third place went to Kurahashi when she defeated Northern Iowa's Natalie Lorentz, 6-0, 6-1. Flight C displayed the final Shocker winner as Bellucco defeated Kong, 2-6, 6-4, 10-3.
 
Quotes from the Coach
Head Coach Colin Foster
"I'm certainly pleased with the results, as we won five of the six draws. The players all did a good job to allow me to push them out of their comfort zones and grow in the areas we've been focusing on. We've talked about doing a better job to compete with each other in practice and that's been good so far. This weekend we had several matches within the team, and everyone did well to compete as though a tournament title was on the line, because it was. Regardless of who beat who, we all got better and hopefully that mindset will continue when we are back on the practice courts competing amongst ourselves."