Tennis: UNLV’s Janus loses first-round match

Wednesday, May 23, 2001 | 9:38 a.m.

UNLV sophomore Paulina Janus lost her opening match and was eliminated from her first NCAA singles championship, which got under way Tuesday in Stone Mountain, Ga.

Competing for the first time since April 28, the 68th-ranked Janus blew a 3-1 first-set lead and was swept 6-3, 6-1 by 41st-ranked Liesl Fichtbauer of Fresno State. Janus ended the season with an overall record of 16-8 while Fichtbauer, a senior, improved to 33-6.

With Nenad Zivkovic's withdrawl from the NCAA men's tournament because of injury, Janus' loss marked the official end of the UNLV tennis season.

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