Spring Break
Women tennis team wins tight meet against Baylor
MANIK K. GUPTA
Issue date: 3/3/09 Section: Sports
With the dual match score knotted at three all and just one match in progress, Georgia women's tennis player Yvette Hyndman faced the biggest pressure moment of the young season.
Tied at 5-all in the third set against Baylor's No. 54-ranked Csilla Borsanyi , a nervous tension settled through the home crowd at the Hopkins Indoor Center.
Eventually the No. 41 ranked junior from Bradenton, Fla. would answer the challenge, however. Battling through a calf cramp for almost the entire match, Hyndman held serve and then broke Borsanyi to take the match 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to give the No. 2-ranked Georgia women (9-1) a hard fought 4-3 victory over Baylor (4-3) Saturday. The win avenges a 4-3 loss the Bulldogs suffered at the hands of the Bears a year ago in Waco, Tex.
"It was real exciting. I've never been in this type of situation where I'm the last one on the court, and it comes down to me. I've clinched a match before, but it's never been like that for me," Hyndman said after the thrilling victory.
"I was a little nervous, but just really excited. The last game, I just really tried to step it up and go for it, hoping that I'll make it and I did."
Not only did Hyndman have to deal with the nagging calf cramp in the third set, but she also fell down 4-3 after she failed to hold her serve. Facing what looked to be an insurmountable deficit while receiving treatment on her lower leg during the change-over , Hyndman broke back to even the decisive third set at 4-all, a juncture she called the "turning point" of the match.
"I'm excited that [Yvette] was able to find a way and get through it," Georgia head coach Jeff Wallace said. "There were two courts that [Baylor] just absolutely played great tennis on, and Yvette's was one of them."
The finish to the doubles point was just as thrilling as the conclusion of the dual match. After the top doubles team of Hyndman and Chelsey Gullickson had lost four out their last five, Wallace made the adjustment of moving freshman phenom Nadja Gilchrist to the 1-doubles position alongside classmate, Gullickson.
Tied at 5-all in the third set against Baylor's No. 54-ranked Csilla Borsanyi , a nervous tension settled through the home crowd at the Hopkins Indoor Center.
Eventually the No. 41 ranked junior from Bradenton, Fla. would answer the challenge, however. Battling through a calf cramp for almost the entire match, Hyndman held serve and then broke Borsanyi to take the match 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to give the No. 2-ranked Georgia women (9-1) a hard fought 4-3 victory over Baylor (4-3) Saturday. The win avenges a 4-3 loss the Bulldogs suffered at the hands of the Bears a year ago in Waco, Tex.
"It was real exciting. I've never been in this type of situation where I'm the last one on the court, and it comes down to me. I've clinched a match before, but it's never been like that for me," Hyndman said after the thrilling victory.
"I was a little nervous, but just really excited. The last game, I just really tried to step it up and go for it, hoping that I'll make it and I did."
Not only did Hyndman have to deal with the nagging calf cramp in the third set, but she also fell down 4-3 after she failed to hold her serve. Facing what looked to be an insurmountable deficit while receiving treatment on her lower leg during the change-over , Hyndman broke back to even the decisive third set at 4-all, a juncture she called the "turning point" of the match.
"I'm excited that [Yvette] was able to find a way and get through it," Georgia head coach Jeff Wallace said. "There were two courts that [Baylor] just absolutely played great tennis on, and Yvette's was one of them."
The finish to the doubles point was just as thrilling as the conclusion of the dual match. After the top doubles team of Hyndman and Chelsey Gullickson had lost four out their last five, Wallace made the adjustment of moving freshman phenom Nadja Gilchrist to the 1-doubles position alongside classmate, Gullickson.
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