Volume 114 >> Issue 48 : Friday, October 14, 1994

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Women's Tennis Splits Two New-8 Matches in Two Days

The women's tennis team played two matches last week, beating Babson College at home last Thursday and losing a close one at Wheaton College the next day.

Both matches were New England Women's Eight Conference games, bringing the team's overall record to 4­1.

The team crushed a much improved Babson team, 7­2. Number one doubles team Sarah Kringer '97 and Seetha Ramnath '96 ran into some trouble and lost their match 8­3. Carol Matsuzaki '95 and Lily Koo '97 at number two, and Bobby Kommineni '97 and Nora Humphrey '98 at number three claimed easy victories, winning 8­2 and 8­3, respectively.

In singles play, at first singles Matsuzaki was down 2­4 in both sets but managed to refocus and emerged victorious, 6­4, 7­5. Number two singles player Ramnath used her smooth, flowing groundstrokes to crush her opponent 6­3, 6­1.

At the third position, Miranda Fan '95 played tough but lost 6­3, 6­0. Koo, at fourth singles, completely overwhelmed her opponent 6­1, 6­1. Fifth singles player Kommineni was too powerful for her opponent as she took a 6­4, 6­1 win. At number six, Kringer stayed mentally focused to outplay her opponent, 6­4, 6­4.

Doubles decides Wheaton match

Against Wheaton, doubles proved to be very important as MIT went into singles play with a 1­2 deficit. At first doubles, Matsuzaki/Fan started off down two breaks but managed to get back on serve at 6­6, with Matsuzaki serving. She failed to hold serve, and the Wheaton team held on to win the match 8­6.

At second doubles the pair of Ramnath and Kringer played against tough opponents and lost 8­1. Third doubles pair Koo and Kommineni emerged victorious in a very well-played, tight match, 8­6.

Down 1­2, MIT needed to win four of the six singles matches to take the competition.

At first singles, Matsuzaki played with good intensity throughout the whole match and played a dominating third set, winning 6­3, 4­6, 6­2. Second singles player Ramnath ran into a tough opponent and lost 6­2, 6­3. At third singles, Fan made a good attempt in the second set but came up just short, 6­1, 6­4. Fourth singles player Koo evinced her domination yet again by taking a 6­3, 6­1 victory.

At number five, Kommineni gave a good effort but fell victim to unforced errors, as she took a 6­3, 6­3 loss. At sixth singles, Kringer managed to pull out her first set and then completely took over the match, 7­5, 6­1.

With MIT and Wheaton splitting the singles 3­3, it was not enough for the Engineers to win.

MIT dominated in exhibition play as Humphrey took a magnificent 8­1 victory and Sejal Shah '95 came out with a solid 8­5 win. Humphrey and Shah combined to play doubles and were victorious with an astounding 9­7 win.