WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Palm Beach Atlantic women's tennis was unable to come away with a victory in their season opener on Sunday, falling to Flagler 7-0. This year in collegiate tennis the three doubles matches are a best two-out-of-three format to award one point with all six singles matches worth one point for a total of seven.

In doubles play the top duo of Vanessa Buchbinder and Yuliia Russu had the best showing for PBA at No. 1, forcing a tiebreak before losing 7-6 (6). The Saints took the other two doubles matches by the same 6-3 score.

In singles it was Buchbinder again at the top and again playing the longest match. After dropping the first set to Felicitas Runkel 7-6 (5), Buchbinder rallied to win the second 7-5 before Runkel prevailed in the third set 10-5.

Bella Mermersky also went three sets in her singles match before Eden Schlagenahuf came away with the victory. Mermersky took the opening set 7-6 (4) before Schlagenhauf took the final two 6-1, 10-7.

The Sailfish are back in action on Thursday, Feb. 21 as they host Nova Southeastern in their SSC opener at 3 p.m.