2006 NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships May 18-29 * Stanford, Calif. * Stanford University Taube Tennis Center No. 7 Miami 4, No. 2 Notre Dame 0 Results Doubles 1. Melissa Applebaum and Audra Cohen-2 (M) vs. Catrina Thompson and Christian Thompson-5 (ND), 8-6 2. Audrey Banada and Monika Dancevic (M) vs. Brook Buck and Kelcy Tefft (ND), 8-2 3. Lauren Connelly and Kristina Stastny (ND) def. Caren Seenauth and Patricia Starzyk (M), 8-1 Order of finish: 3, 2, 1 Singles* 1. Audra Cohen-2 (M) def. Catrina Thompson-30 (ND), 6-2, 6-1 2. Melissa Applebaum-76 (M) vs. Christian Thompson-113 (ND), 6-3, 6-2 3. Monika Dancevic-107 (M) def. Brook Buck-87 (ND), 7-5, 6-3 4. Audrey Banada (M) led Kelcy Tefft (ND), 5-2 -- DNF 5. Patricia Starzyk (M) vs. Kristina Stastny (ND), 5-2 -- DNF 6. Katie Potts (ND) led Caren Seenauth (M), 6-0, 2-1 -- DNF Order of finish: 1, 2, 3 *Singles began with courts 1-3, 4-6 began play as courts became available Notes Match played indoors at San Francisco Tennis Club due to rain ... Start was delayed 3 hours ... No. 7 seed Miami im- proves to 22-6 this season ... Hurricanes last reached NCAA SF in 1986; this will be UM’s third all-time final four showing (reached ‘85 final) ... Miami and Notre Dame had met in Big East final every year from 1996-2004 with ND holding 5-4 edge in those nine finals ... Miami’s Audra Coher is 31-1 this season at No. 1 singles ... Notre Dame had won the doubles points in 28 previous matches this season ... No. 2 seed Notre Dame’s dream season ends with 27-2 record ... Irish were in QF for second time and first since ‘96 ... Only Irish loss this season came back on March 29. 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships May 18-29 * Stanford, Calif. * Stanford University Taube Tennis Center No. 3 USC 4, No. 11 Northwestern 3 Results Doubles 1. Cristelle Grier and Alexis Prousis-13 (NW) def. Dianne Matias and Carine Vermeulen-28 (USC), 8-4 2. Feriel Esseghir and Georgia Rose (NW) def. Luana Magnani and Lindsey Nelson-18 (USC), 8-1 3. Judy DeVera and Amanda Fink (USC) led Nazlie Ghazal and Jamie Peisel (NW), 6-5 --DNF Order of finish: 2, 1 Singles* 1. Lindsey Nelson-18 (USC) def. Georgia Rose-45 (NW), 6-2, 6-2 2. Cristelle Grier-11 (NW) vs. Amanda Fink-7 (USC), 6-1, 5-7, 3-0 (retired) 3. Luana Magnani-47 (USC) def. Alexis Prousis-35 (NW), 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 4. Dianne Matias-29 (USC) def. Jamie Peisel (NW), 6-0, 6-4 5. Feriel Esseghir (NW) def. Anca Anastasiu-58 (USC) ,6-2, 7-5 6. Carine Vermeulen-101 (USC) def. Nazlie Ghazal (NW), 6-4, 6-2 Order of finish: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 *Singles began with courts 1-3, 4-6 began play as courts became available Notes Match played indoors at San Francisco Tennis Club due to rain ... Start was delayed 3 hours ... No. 3 USC improves to 21-3 this season ... Women of Troy in NCAA SF for first time since 1988 ... USC has now won 14 of its last 15 matches ... USC owns two NCAA championships in ‘83 and ‘85 ... Northwestern was looking to reach SF for first time; had reached QF in ‘86 and ‘87 ... No. 11 NU finishes season with 24-5 record ... USC improves to 5-1 in all-time series against NU ... North- western’s Rose had won 29 striaght matches prior to today’s match. 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships May 18-29 * Stanford, Calif. * Stanford University Taube Tennis Center No. 4 Florida 4, No. 5 Baylor 0 Results Doubles 1. Whitney Benik and Alexis Gordon-24 (F) def. Zuzana Cerna and Daniela Covello (B), 8-6 2. Lolita Frangulyan and Diana Srebrovic (F) def. Iva Mihaylova and Klara Zrustova (B), 8-4 3. Zuzana Krchnakova and Zuzana Zemenova (B) vs. Keri Robison and Nina Suvak (F), 6-5 -- DNF Order of finish: 1, 2 Singles 1. Alexis Gordon-14 (F) def. Zuzana Zemenova-6 (B), 6-3, 6-0 2. Diana Srebrovic-9 (F) vs. Zuzana Cerna-16 (B), 7-5, 1-5 -- DNF 3. Whitney Benik-112 (F) vs. Daniela Covello (B), 6-0, 2-6, 4-2 -- DNF 4. Boglarka Berecz-50 (F) led Klara Zrustova-95 (B), 7-5, 1-2 -- DNF 5. Nina Suvak (F) def. Iva Mihaylova (B), 6-3, 6-1 6. Alex Liles (F) def. Zuzana Krchnakova (B), 6-2, 6-4 Order of finish: 1, 5, 6 Notes After the match was postponed for nearly three and half hours due to rain and wet courts, the match started just before 9:30 p.m. at Stanford ... No. 4 seed Florida improves to 25-1 with its 19th straight win ... Baylor’s win streak ends at 18 ... Gators have not lost since Feb. 26 (to North Carolina) ... Florida is now 18-3 in NCAA QF matches ... UF is second only to Stanford in NCAA titles won (4) and is the last school other than Stanford to win the NCAA title (2003) ... Baylor falls to 28-4 with loss ... Bears was playing in first NCAA QF in school history ... This was only the second meeting between the schools - UF beat Baylor in last year’s NCAA round of 16 ... SF match against Stanford will be between the two winningest programs in NCAA tournament history - they have faced each other in NCAA final seven times (with Stanford winning five times). 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships May 18-29 * Stanford, Calif. * Stanford University Taube Tennis Center No. 1 Stanford 4, No. 8 Duke 0 Results Doubles 1. Alice Barnes and Anne Yelsey-1 (S) def. Daniela Bercek and Jennifer Zika-31 (D), 8-3 2. Jackie Carleton and Melissa Mang (D) led Celia Durkin and Amber Liu-22 (S), 6-4 -- DNF 3. Lejla Hodzic and Jessica Nguyen (S) def. Tara Iyer and Jessi Robinson (D), 8-5 Order of finish: 1, 3 Singles 1. Daniela Bercek-4 (D) led Amber Liu-8 (S), 6-1, 3-4 -- DNF 2. Alice Barnes-5 (S) led Jackie Carleton-32 (D), 6-2, 5-2 -- DNF 3. Theresa Logar-10 (S) def. Melissa Mang-71 (D), 6-0, 6-4 4. Anne Yelsey-11 (S) def. Tara Iyer-88 (D), 6-3, 6-3 5. Whitney Deason-52 (S) def. Clelia Deltour-102 (D), 6-1, 4-3 -- DNF 6. Celia Durkin-34 (S) def. Jessi Robinson (D), 6-2, 6-2 Order of finish: 6, 4, 3 Notes After the match was postponed for nearly three and half hours due to rain and wet courts, the match started just before 9:30 p.m. at Stanford ... No. 1 seed Stanford improves to 28-0 with the win ... Cardinal is in 24th NCAA SF in last 25 years ... Stanford’s record win streak is now at 84 straight ... Stanford has also won 16 straight (and 33 of 34) NCAA tournament matches ... Cardinal is seeking 15th NCAA championship and third straight ... Stanford’s Logar (19-0), Yelsey (23-0) and Durkin (21-0) have yet to lose in dual match play this season in singles ... Stanford’s doubles teams are now a combined 48-3 in dual matches ... Stanford’s Lele Forood is 33-1 in postseason play as head coach ... This was Duke’s 13th NCAA QF appearance, was looking to reach SF for seventh time ... No. 8 seed Blue Devils finish season with 20-8 record..