ORLANDO — After losing the opening set and the first five games of the second set Wednesday afternoon in the NCAA Singles Championship quarterfinals, Estela Perez-Somarriba of the University of Miami women’s tennis team stormed back for a thrilling three-set victory.
The top-ranked player in the nation and the second overall seed in the tournament, Perez-Somarriba posted an unlikely 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 6-3 triumph over seventh-ranked and seventh-seeded Abbey Forbes at the USTA National Campus.
In doing so, Perez-Somarriba became the seventh player ever to earn three NCAA Singles Championship semifinal berths, including only the third in the last three decades.