Tennis: Rebels’ Janus in NCAA Championships

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 | 10:25 a.m.

UNLV sophomore Paulina Janus made her NCAA Championships debut in first-round action today at Stone Mountain, Ga. Janus, ranked 68th, played 41st-ranked Liesl Fichtbauer of Fresno State this morning.

The winner will advance to Wednesday's second round to face the winner of a match between fifth-ranked Nataly Cahana of Old Dominion and 37th-ranked Katja Kovac of Baylor.

Janus, who has not competed since April 28, is 16-7 overall and has won 10 of her last 11 matches, including six straight to end the season.

On the men's side, UNLV head coach Larry Easley announced that senior Nenad Zivkovic has withdrawn from the field for the NCAA Men's Singles Championship, which gets under way Wednesday in Athens, Ga. Zivkovic, who suffered through various injuries during his career, including a shoulder problem this season that forced him to serve underhanded, is unable to compete because of a foot injury that was determined by doctors to be more serious than first diagnosed.

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