On Saturday, April 6, both Men’s and Women’s Tennis traveled to Dallas, PA. where they took on Misericordia University’s respective teams for the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom Opener. Before this, both teams sat 4-5 in the 2023-2024 season, and 0-0 in the MAC.
Juniors Olof Persson and Sebastian Wroe started the team’s day off strong for the Men’s team when they took an 8-0 victory in doubles. First-year Samvdi Andhare and sophomore Max-William Kanz also took an 8-0 win, with another doubles victory secured by junior Vivek Harinarayan and senior Aashi Kulakarni. The team also swept in singles, with each player winning with a margin of at least five points in both of their two sets, resulting in a complete sweep of the match, Stevens winning 9-0.
Senior Polina Odintseva and junior Isabella Dona each secured two wins for Women’s Tennis on Saturday, both winning in doubles and their singles matches. Odintseva and her doubles partner, first-year Lorena Piegas, took an 8-6 victory before playing three sets in her singles match, winning the second two. Dona and first-year Julianna Gomez took an 8-2 victory in doubles and then each won their singles matches, though Dona was also pushed into a third set, which she won. Having won all three of their doubles matches, and four of the six singles matches played, the team ended the day 7-2.
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 13, both teams will travel to Bayonne, NJ, where they will take on Lebanon Valley College, Men’s Tennis at 11 a.m. and Women’s Tennis at 2 p.m.
