Volume 118 >> Issue 42 : Friday, September 18, 1998

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Women's Tennis Beats Wheaton

The women's tennis team traveled to Wheaton College on Tuesday for their first match of the fall season. It was also the team's first New England Women's Mid Atlantic Conference match. MIT won 5­4, but not before inclement weather forced the singles matches indoors.

At first doubles, Mealani Nakamura '00 and Kelly Koskelin '02 won 8­6 after trailing 4­1 at the outset. Jessica Hall '02 and Nisha Singh '00 won 8­5 at second doubles in a match that featured many lead changes. Yi­Ning Chen '02 and Shikha Gupta '01 lost a tough match at third doubles by the score of 8­1. Priscilla Cheung '02 and Divya Bhat '02 won 8­6 at fourth doubles.

Singles play started outdoors but was halted at the beginning of everyone's first set due to a downpour. At first singles, Nakamura won 6­3, 6­1, while her doubles partner Koskelin, prevailed by almost the same score at second singles, 6­4, 6­1. The most exciting match of the day was won by Hall at third singles 2­6, 7­6(7­3), 6­4. Not only did Hall save three match points in the second set, but the match turned out to be the deciding one in the overall score. Singh played well in the first set of her fourth singles match, but lost 7­5, 6­0. Cheng lost 6­0, 6­4 at fifth singles, and Gupta lost 6­4, 6­3 at sixth singles. Cheung lost 8­2 at seventh singles.

The team plays a doubleheader at home on Saturday, with the first match against Skidmore College and the second against Springfield College.