BALTIMORE, Md. – The No. 34 Washington and Lee women's tennis team had its nine-match winning streak snapped at No. 12 Johns Hopkins on Sunday, 5-2, to close out regular season play.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
Doubles favored the Blue Jays (11-7), as the hosts won at No. 3 and No. 2 to clinch the point, before notching a win at No. 1 for the sweep. Juniors
Lauren Long and
Riho Iijima lost by a 6-1 score at No. 3, and juniors
Isabella Custard and
Annie Jennings fell by the same score at No. 2 against the 12th-ranked team of Ava Li and Kamila Wong. The 20th-ranked doubles tandem of Lia Melvin and Jay Xiao then earned a 6-3 win at the top spot over first-years
Sarah Donnelly and
Allie Murrell.
The Blue Jays clinched the match with straight-set wins at Nos. 5, 2 and 6, while singles matches 1, 3 and 4 all went to three sets. Sahana Madala bested Jennings at No. 5 (6-0, 6-4), Sahana Sanjeev downed Murrell at No. 2 (6-4, 6-3), and Wong notched a win at No. 6 (7-6 [4], 6-3) over Iijima.
Junior
Grace Lorenz got the Generals on the board with a three-set win at No. 3, in which she battled back against Melvin, who won the first set, for 7-5 and 6-4 wins in the second and third sets, respectively. Donnelly also forced a third set after dropping her first at No. 4 against Li, but Li outlasted Donnelly in the 10-point tiebreak for the win (6-1, 6-7 [2], 1-0 [9]).
In the final match to finish, Long faced off against Sydney Langer and moved ahead by a set, 6-2, to open the match. Langer responded with a 6-2 win in the second, before the two headed to a decisive tiebreak in the third all knotted at six games apiece. Long then kept her personal singles winning streak alive (7) with a 7-4 victory in the break.
UP NEXT:
The Generals will regroup and turn their attention to the ODAC Tournament, which begins on Tuesday. W&L will be the top seed for the championship tournament and will host a quarterfinal match on Tuesday. The ODAC will announce seedings for the tournament later today once all teams have completed match play.
Nestled in the mountains of Virginia, Washington and Lee University is a proud member of NCAA Division III and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Founded in 1749, W&L is the ninth-oldest college in the United States and a top-ranked liberal arts university. With over 500 student-athletes in 24 varsity sports, the Generals have celebrated over 265 conference championships. Learn more about the Blue and White by visiting www.generalssports.com or on social media at @WLUGenerals.
