MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Middle Tennessee's Elvira Yusupova reached the bracket finals with two wins and Ann-Kristin Siljestrom and one doubles team made the finals in consolation brackets during action Saturday at the Ole Miss Fall Classic in Oxford, Miss.
In the NYC Draw, Yusupova picked up two victories to reach the finals. The sophomore defeated Andrea Courtney of Southern Illinois, 6-2, 6-1, before taking care of Louisiana-Lafayette's Angela Dangond in the semifinals, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Yusupova will face North Florida's Florencia Torres in the finals on Sunday.
In other NYC Draw quarterfinals, Stephanie Parkison lost 4-6, 6-7 (5), to Arkansas-Little Rock's Aleksandra Zakrzynska.
In the Blue Draw, Hala Sufi defeated Nika Koukhartchouk of Ole Miss, 6-3, 7-5, but fell in the semifinals to 21st-ranked Natalie Frazier of Ole Miss, 5-7, 0-6.
Late Friday Claudia Szabo dropped a 4-6, 6-2, 2-6, decision to Stephanie Dellocono in the Red Draw, but Szabo bounced back Saturday with a 7-5, 7-5, triumph in the consolation bracket. The Blue Raider junior lost her second match Saturday, 4-6, 3-6, to Georgia's Lara Fakhoury in the consolation semifinals.
Also in the Red Draw consolation bracket, Siljestrom won 6-0, 6-2, over Brittany Serret of Southern Miss and then again, 6-0, 6-0, over Murray State's Anne Pennington. Siljestrom will face Fakhoury in the consolation finals Sunday.
In White Draw quarterfinals, Pooja Kommireddi dropped a 2-6, 0-6, decision to Troy's Suzanne Jones. Marlene Chemin defeated Arkansas-Little Rock's Hollie Robinson, 6-3, 6-3, in the consolation bracket of the White Draw, but Chemin lost 3-6, 2-6, to Louisiana-Lafayette's Chanell Meijer in the semifinals later Saturday.
In doubles action Saturday in the consolation bracket, Sufi-Szabo defeated Serret and Ali Blackett of Southern Miss, 8-1, in the Blue Draw and face South Alabama's Dijana Stanic and Michaela Babicova in the consolation finals Sunday.
Kommireddi-Chemin lost 8-4 to Murray State's Lyndsay Ottosen and Lynsey Bochenek in the Red Draw.
Siljestrom, Yusupova and Sufi-Szabo will all be in action on the final day of the tournament. Full results from the tournament may be found at olemisssports.com.
SINGLES
Blue Draw - Quarterfinals
Hala Sufi (MT) def. Nika Koukhartchouk (UM), 6-3, 7-5
Blue Draw - Semifinals
(21) Natalie Frazier (UM) def. Hala Sufi (MT), 7-5, 6-0
Red Draw - Round of 16 (Late Friday)
Stephanie Dellocono (USM) def. Claudia Szabo (MT), 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
Red Draw Consolation - Quarterfinals
Ann-Kristin Siljestrom (MT) def. Brittany Serret (USM), 6-0, 6-2
Claudia Szabo (MT) def. Casady Pruitt (MSU), 7-5, 7-5
Red Draw Consolation - Semifinals
Ann-Kristin Siljestrom (MT) def. Anne Pennington (MSU), 6-0, 6-0
Lara Fakhoury (UGA) def. Claudia Szabo (MT), 6-4, 6-3
White Draw - Quarterfinals
Suzanne Jones (Troy) def. Pooja Kommireddi (MT), 6-2, 6-0
White Draw Consolation - Quarterfinals
Marlene Chemin (MT) def. Hollie Robinson (UALR), 6-3, 6-3
White Draw Consolation - Semifinals
Chanell Meijer (UL) def. Marlene Chemin (MT), 6-3, 6-2
NYC Draw - Quarterfinals
Aleksandra Zakrzynska (UALR) def. Stephanie Parkison (MT), 6-4, 7-6 (5)
Elvira Yusupova (MT) def. Andrea Courtney (SIU), 6-2, 6-1
NYC Draw - Semifinals
Elvira Yusupova (MT) def. Angela Dangond (UL), 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
DOUBLES
Blue Draw
Consolation - Semifinals
Hala Sufi-Claudia Szabo (MT) def. Brittany Serret and Ali Blackett (USM), 8-1
Red Draw
Consolation - Semifinals
Lyndsay Ottosen-Lynsey Bochenek (MSU) def. Pooja Kommireddi-Marlene Chemin (MT), 8-4