Volume 118 >> Issue 45 : Tuesday, September 29, 1998

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MIT Women's Tennis Team Loses Hard Match to Colby

The women's tennis team sweated out a tough 3­6 loss against Colby College. Kelly Koskelin '02 and Mealani Nakamura '00 earned the first of three points at first doubles with a score of 8­6. Jessica Hall '02 and Nisha Singh '00 played well at second, but lost 6­8, as did Yi-Ning Cheng '02 and Shikha Gupta '01 at third, who lost 2­8. Divya Bhat '02 and Priscilla Cheung '02 lost at fourth 3­8.

At first singles, Nakamura lost in three sets, 6­2, 6­7, 1­6. Her partner Koskelin fared much better at second singles, earning the second point for MIT in straight sets, 6­3, 6­1. Hall bounced back from her loss in doubles and snatched the third point with a 6­4, 6­2. Singh at fourth and Cheng at fifth played tough, but both lost 1­6, 1­6. Gupta in sixth singles and Cheung at eighth hustled and played hard, but lost 4­6, 0­6, and 2­6, 0­6 respectively. Finally, at seventh singles, in the longest match of the day, Bhat ran her opponent around for three sets, and triumphed 7­6, 6­7, 7­6.