Women's Tennis Falls at D'Youville, 6-1

Posted: Sep 20, 2025

Buffalo, N.Y. - The St. Thomas Aquinas College Women's Tennis team closed its two-match Western New York road trip, dropping a 6-1 ECC decision to D'Youville University on Saturday morning at Nichols High School.

STAC falls to 1-1 overall and 1-1 in ECC action, while D'Youville moves to 1-0 and 1-0.

D'Youville opened play by taking two-of-three doubles matches, with the only Spartans' victory coming via the team of Kateryna Kryuchkova & Sun Zhuoxuan over Erika Ismailova & Nele Herbst (DYU), 7-6 (7-5).

In singles action, the Saints moved quickly to end the match, winning five-of-six bouts to take the team victory. However, No. 1 Kateryna Kryuchkova prevented D'Youville from gaining a clean sweep by downing Munisa Ashurbekova, 6-1, 6-4.

Kryuchkova went 2-0 on the morning with both doubles and singles victories over the host Saints.

D'YOUVILLE 6/STAC 1 - OFFICIAL RESULTS

DOUBLES

1. Kateryna Kryuchkova & Sun Zhuoxuan (STAC) def. Erika Ismailova & Nele Herbst (DYU), 7-6 (7-5)

2. Miranda Bosch & Munisa Ashurbekova (DYU) def. Mar Caneves Bufi (STAC) & Shreethika Vangala (STAC) 6-3

3. Florentina Schmidt & Mina Randjelovic (DYU) def. No Player & No Player (STAC), Default

Order of Finish: 3, 2*, 1

SINGLES

1. Kateryna Kryuchkova (STAC) def. Munisa Ashurbekova (DYU) 6-1, 6-4

2. Nele Herbst (DYU) def. Mar Caneves Bufi (STAC) 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (9)

3. Mina Randjelovic (DYU) def. Sun Zhuoxuan (STAC) 6-2, 6-2

4. Erika Ismailova (DYU) def. Shreethika Vangala (STAC) 1-6, 6-1, 6-1

5. Miranda Bosch (DYU) def. No Player (STAC) Default

6. Florentina Schmidt (DYU) def. No Player (STAC) Default

Order of Finish: 5, 6, 3*, 1, 4, 2

D'Youville Record: 1-0, 1-0 ECC

STAC Record: 1-1, 1-1 ECC

THE ROCKHILL REPORT

"D’Youville is a much-improved team this year", said Head Coach Dan Rockhill. "I know that their staff has been working very hard to achieve success and I am impressed with how they played."

"Obviously, we need to win both doubles matches to come away with the point and we didn’t compete well enough to do that today", stated Rockhill. "Mar and Shree have a chance to be a very good team but are still learning how to play cohesively with each other. They should be a fun team to watch as the season goes along."

"We needed to win all four singles matches but D’Youville was just too strong", commented Rockhill. "Kat had a tremendous weekend but we have a very small margin for error at the moment. If we want to win matches, we will need all four players to be playing their best every match."

UP NEXT

STAC returns to action on Thursday (March 13), taking on Minnesota State University Moorhead as the Florida Spring Break tour rolls on.