WELLESLEY, Mass. – Wellesley College tennis improved to 2-0 with a 7-0 NEWMAC victory over Salve Regina University at The Amy Batchelor '88, Trustee, Tennis Courts on Tuesday.
The Blue (2-0, 2-0 NEWMAC) began the match by taking all three doubles matches for a 1-0 advantage. Wellesley juniors
Sophie Buttorff (Tacoma, Wash.) and
Nandini Patel (Phoenix, Ariz.) earned a 6-1 victory over seniors Stephanie Davis (Kinnelon, N.J.) and Kaydin Pinto (Acushnet, Mass.).
Seniors
Lily Cade (Minneapolis, Minn.) and
Kriti Sarav (Chicago, Ill.) won their match seconds later, also by a 6-1 score over Salve Regina (2-3, 0-2 NEWMAC) senior Anna Grace Hjerpe (Northborough, Mass.) and sophomore Amanda Quinn (Norton, Mass.).
Senior
Dalia Khera (Houston, Texas) and first-year
Sophia Liang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) completed the sweep for the Blue with a 6-2 triumph over Madigan Murphy (York, Maine) and first-year Tiffany Gomez (Harwich, Mass.).
Wellesley first-year
Zoe Li (Boca Raton, Fla.) gave the home team a 2-0 lead with a 6-0, 6-0 win against Quinn at No. 6.
The Blue went in front 3-0 after Buttorff defeated Davis 6-1, 6-0 at the top spot.
At No. 4, Wellesley senior
Veda Madhusudan (Short Hills, N.J.) picked up a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Hjerpe.
Sophomore
Praslin Hayes (Robbinsville,. N.J.) did not drop a game en route to a straight sets win at No. 2 against Pinto.
The No. 3 singles match saw Liang come away with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Murphy to give the Blue a 6-0 lead.
First-year
Kakou Narita (Tokyo, Japan) was able to close out Gomez 6-3, 6-3 for the 7-0 Wellesley sweep.
Up next, Wellesley has a busy day on Friday, October 2. Some members of the team will be playing at the ITA Regionals in Brunswick, Maine while the rest of the team takes on Endicott College.
