Nov. 3, 2001

MANHATTAN, Kan. - A pair of Kansas State Wildcats won their first pool play matches today at the Wildcat Doubles Invitational at the Cottonwood Racquet Club in Manhattan.

Kansas State's Kathy Chuda and Petra Sedlmajerova beat Colorado's Lia Diminog and Dominique Lemperle, 8-3. Alena Jecminkova and Andrea Cooper also won their match, 8-1, over Iowa State's Sharla Whitaker and Karin Westberg.

In the other two pool matches, Missouri's Lucie Ruskova and Kristina Olshanskaya beat Colorado's Tracy Moore and Sarah Austin, 8-4 and OSU's Dominika Olszewska and Ashleigh Dolman defeated ISU's Tara Goedjen and Kristin Gyaki, 8-1.

Pool 2 "White"

Jecminkova/Cooper, KSU def. Whitaker/Westberg, ISU, 8-1

Ruskova/Olshanskaya, MSU def. Moore/Austin, CU, 8-4

Pool 3 "Silver"

Chuda/Sedlmajerova, KSU def. Dimingo/Lemperle, CU, 8-3