PENSACOLA, Fla. (April 9, 2016) – The ninth-ranked Hawaii Pacific women's tennis team posted a 5-2 road victory over No. 6 West Florida and improved to 13-3 with one more regular-season match to play.
 
HPU's top-ranked doubles team of Kristyna Hancarova (sophomore from Karvina, Czech Republic) and Nicole Hoynaski (junior from Sydney, Australia) improved to 14-1 on the season after the tandem raced past Nina Bubelova and Paula Lopez, 8-2. Lorena Gheorghe and Syna Kayser also picked up a doubles victory as the duo edged Katarina Dikosavljevic 9-7.
 
Gheorghe, Kayser and Oceane Adam notched singles wins to help propel HPU to the victory. Kayser turned in an impressive 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Bubelova.
 
The Sharks women play Armstrong State on April 10 before heading to next week's PacWest Championships in Surprise, Ariz.
 
Complete Results
 
 

#1 Singles	Katarina Dikosavljevic	#15 Kristyna Hancarova	Unfinished	6-3, 2-0
#2 Singles	#46 Paula Lopez	#43 Nicole Hoynaski	Unfinished	6-2, 4-6
#3 Singles	Nina Bubelova	Syna Kayser	Hawaii Pacific University	6-0. 6-0
#4 Singles	Sarai Flores	Oceane Adam	Hawaii Pacific University	6-4, 6-1
#5 Singles	Dianna Vlad	Lorena Gheorghe	Hawaii Pacific University	6-1, 6-4
#6 Singles	Heather Mixon	Julia Sauer	Univ. of West Florida	6-2, 6-4
#1 Doubles	Nina Bubelova   Paula Lopez	#1 Kristyna Hancarova   Nicole Hoynaski	Hawaii Pacific University	8-2
#2 Doubles	Katarina Dikosavljevic   Dianna Vlad	Lorena Gheorghe   Syna Kayser	Hawaii Pacific University	9-7
#3 Doubles	Valeria Mantilla   Sarai Flores	Julia Sauer   Oceane Adam	Univ. of West Florida	9-8 (6)