Volume 114 >> Issue 46 : Tuesday, October 4, 1994

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Women's Tennis Claims Victory over Mt. Holyoke

The women's tennis team traveled to Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA last Saturday, and claimed a solid, domineering victory with a 7­2 score. The Engineers showed that they have what it takes to close out a match with conviction.

MIT continues to be one of the teams to beat in the New England Women's Eight Conference, with a 3­0 conference record.

In doubles play, the first doubles team of Carol Matsuzaki '95 and Miranda Fan '95 started out a little rough, falling into a 3­7 deficit. They regrouped and came back to tie it at 8­8. They were edged out and denied in the tiebreaker, 9­7.

At second doubles, the team of Seetha Ramnath '96 and Sarah Kringer '97 played beautiful, exciting doubles as they took an 8­4 victory. Third doubles team Bobby Kommineni '97 and Lily Koo '97 had no problem in disposing of their opponents, 8­1.

Fourth doubles team Sejal Shah '95 and Nora Humphrey '98 completely eighty-sixed their opponents in an 8­6 win.

At first singles, Matsuzaki ran into a little tentativeness in the beginning, barely winning the first set 7­6 (7­3), but managed to overcome it in the second with a 6­1 win.

At second singles, Ramnath played a close first set but lost the match, 7­5, 6­1. At third singles, Fan played with confidence and tenacity, and stomped on her opponent, 6­4, 6­1. Fourth singles player Koo won, 6­0, 6­2.

Kommineni, at fifth singles, ran into a little trouble in the second set, losing 6­1, after winning the first set 6­2. She fought back to claim the third set, 6­1. Sixth singles player Kringer had no trouble, winning, 6­2, 6­1.

At seventh and eighth singles, Humphrey and Shah each won easy victories, 8­1 and 8­0.

The team plays its next home match on Thursday against NEW-8 Babson College.