SUMTER, South Carolina -- Xavier University's Nour Abbes continued her perfect season by winning the NAIA women's singles national championship with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over No. 3-seed Anastasiya Baranova of Oklahoma Baptist Saturday.
The top-seeded Abbes improved to 29-0 with the win and now will advance to a four-player tournament later Saturday and again Sunday that will also include champions from the NCAA Divisions II and III levels, and the junior college champion.
Abbes was five-for-five in service breaks early in the match, jumping to a 6-1, 2-0 lead. Baranova then broke Abbes twice and held serve for the first time to take a 3-2 in the second set.
The two see-sawed for the rest of the second set before Abbes won the match in 74 minutes.
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