Volume 114 >> Issue 45 : Friday, September 30, 1994

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Tennis Smashes Wellesley

The women's tennis team played Wellesley College on Tuesday in their second New England Women's Eight Conference match this season. The Engineers emerged victorious with an exciting yet dominating win of 6­3 to stay undefeated in NEW-8 matches.

The key to MIT's success was teamwork, as they captured all three doubles matches in aggressive yet poised style.

At first doubles, the team of Carol Matsuzaki '95 and Miranda Fan '95 had an extremely tight match but they upped their intensity notch and took the tiebreaker with conviction, claiming victory 9­8 (7­3).

Second doubles pair Seetha Ramnath '96 and Sarah Kringer '97 showed exquisite teamwork as they dominated throughout the match, winning it 8­4. At third doubles Lily Koo '97 and Bobby Kommineni '97 played solid, aggressive tennis to take an 8­5 win.

MIT went into singles play with a 3­0 lead.

At first singles, Matsuzaki captured the fourth point for MIT as she beat her opponent 6­1, 6­2. Second singles player Ramnath played with an awesome intensity throughout the whole match, which lasted more than 3 hours, and came away with a 7­5, 4­6, 6­4 loss and some good tennis under her belt. Koo put in a good effort but lost 6­2, 6­2, at third singles.

Fourth singles player Kommineni fought hard but took a tough loss, 6­2, 6­3. Kringer, who played the fifth singles spot, completely dominated the first and third sets as she took a much deserved 6­3, 2­6, 6­1 win. At number six singles, Nora Humphrey '98 took the honors of winning the fifth and winning point for MIT as she totally annihilated her opponent, 6­2, 6­2.

In exhibition singles play, Sejal Shah '95 crushed her opponent 8­5.

The team hopes to continue it's success by maintaining their mentally tough-attitude and by working to improve their awesome teamwork.

The team has its next match on Saturday against Mount Holyoke College, another NEW-8 rival.