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Herd Tennis Closed Out Action at Martha Thorn Invitational
10/4/2026 7:27:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Walker goes perfect 6-0 on the weekend between doubles and singles
Championship Fund
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Marshall University Tennis Team competed at the Martha Thorn Invitational Friday through Sunday in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Isabella Walker went a perfect 6-0 (3-0 in doubles and 3-0 in singles) at the event. In doubles, the sophomore competed in all three of her matches with Polina Gumeniuk defeating pairings from Liberty, Penn State and West Virginia.
Walker also picked up three wins in singles in the Blue Bracket over Liberty's Yoanna Radulov, West Virginia's Sorana Matis and Penn State's Susana Souhrada.
Alina Mokrynska and Nour El Ouazzani captured a win over Katerina Dimitrova and Kate Zink of Penn State as Mokrynska also won a doubles contest with Sarah Copley against Duquesne's Nomia Lalonde and Denisse Arinez Guilarte. El Ouazzani won her final doubles contest with Amelie Gomez over Sofia Serrano and Jana Bozinovka of Duquesne.
El Ouazzani won her Blue Bracket singles match over Penn State's Briana Baldi as Gomez went 2-0 in the Mountaineer Bracket over West Virginia's Sosanne Malak and Penn State's Katerina Dimitrova.
In supplemental singles matches, Gumeniuk defeated Liberty's Aranai Martinez in straight sets with Copley winning by injury retirement over Duquesne's Sofia Serrano after winning the first set and leading in the second.
RESULTS
Doubles
Polina Gumeniuk/Isabella Walker (MU) def. Charlotte Benedetti Raven/Briana Baldi (Penn State) 6-3
Maria Turchetto/Yoanna Radulov (Liberty) def. Amelie Gomez/Sarah Copley (MU) 6-2
Alina Mokrynska/Nour El Ouazzani (MU) def. Katerina Dimitrova/Kate Zink (Penn State) 6-4
Polina Gumeniuk/Isabella Walker (MU) def. Laura Villanueva Morillo/Lucia Tognoni (WVU) 6-4
Rio Maeda/Sorana Matis (WVU) def. Sarah Copley/Alina Mokrynska (MU) 7-6 (5)
Nomia Lalonde/Denisse Arinez Guilarte (Duquesne) def. Amelie Gomez/Nour El Ouazzani (MU) 7-6 (8)
Polina Gumeniuk/Isabella Walker (MU) def. Maria Turchetto/Yoanna Radulov (Liberty) 6-3
Sarah Copley/Alina Mokrynska (MU) def. Nomia Lalonde/Denisse Arinez Guilarte (Duquesne) 6-2
Amelie Gomez/Nour El Ouazzani (MU) def. Sofia Serrano/Jana Bozinovka (Duquesne) 6-2
Singles
Gold Bracket
Charlotte Benedetti Raven (Penn State) def. Polina Gumeniuk (MU) 6-0, 6-3
Ela Plosnik (WVU) def. Alina Mokrynska (MU) 5-7, 6-0, 10-3
Rio Maeda (WVU) def. Alina Mokrynska (MU) 6-1, 6-4
Blue Bracket
Sorana Matis (WVU) def. Nour El Ouazzani (MU) 6-3, 6-2
Nour El Ouazzani (MU) def. Briana Baldi (Penn State) 5-7, 6-1, 10-5
Isabella Walker (MU) def. Yoanna Radulov (Liberty) 6-3, 5-7, 10-2
Isabella Walker (MU) def. Sorana Matis (WVU) 6-1, 6-3
Isabella Walker (MU) def. Susana Souhrada (Penn State) 6-7 (6), 6-1, 11-9
Susan Souhrada (Penn State) def. Amelie Gomez (MU) 6-4, 6-1
Mountaineer Bracket
Amelie Gomez (MU) def. Sosanne Malak (WVU) 4-6, 6-4, 10-5
Amelie Gomez (MU) def. Katerina Dimitrova (Penn State) 4-6, 7-5, 10-5
Supplemental Matches
Polina Gumeniuk (MU) def. Aranai Martinez (Liberty) 7-5, 6-2
Maria Turchetto (Liberty) def. Nour El Ouazzani (MU) 6-0, 6-2
Sarah Copley (MU) def. Sofia Seranno (Duquesne) 6-2, 2-0 Retired Inj.
Up Next
Marshall heads to the Wahoowa Invitational in Charlottesville, Virginia, next weekend.
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