Kansas tennis blanks two foes

Kansas University’s women’s tennis team started the 2016 dual-match season with a pair of dominating wins over Nebraska-Omaha and Drake on Monday at the Jayhawk Tennis Center.

The Jayhawks won both matches by 7-0 scores.

Kansas coach Todd Chapman was pleased with KU’s season-opening performance.

“I thought today was a good day,” Chapman said. “We took care of the business we needed to take care of by starting the season off 2-0.”

Kansas started the day with easy doubles wins against Nebraska-Omaha from Nina Khmelnitckaia and Janet Koch, Maria Jose Cardona and Summer Collins and Anastasiya Rychagova and Smith Hinton. In singles, Rychagova, Hinton, Khmelnitckaia, Collins, Koch and Cardona were winners in Nos. 1-6 play.

The Jayhawks duplicated the shutout versus shorthanded Drake, which defaulted at No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles.