The women’s tennis team began its east coast spring season with a home match against unranked Brandeis on March 27. It then started its NESCAC schedule, which spans the month of April. The Jumbos made the Maine road trip for the first time this season, traveling to Colby on Friday and Bates on ...
On Wednesday, the men’s tennis team lost 6-3 to No. 35 Brandeis, which improved to 5-7 on the season, while No. 23 Tufts fell to 3-2. Although Tufts split the singles competition with Brandeis, the host swept all three doubles matches to secure the victory.This was the Jumbos’ first match in ...
The men’s tennis team enjoyed more than just the good weather on its spring break trip to California. With three wins and an impressive performance in its loss to Pomona-Pitzer, Tufts succeeded in establishing a winning start to the busy spring season.Before heading back home to Massachusetts, ...
The No. 17 women’s tennis team traveled to California over spring break to enjoy the warm weather and face off with Div. III competitors.The Jumbos played four matches in five days, winning the first two against Denison College and La Verne University before falling to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and ...
The women’s tennis team has begun training for the upcoming season, and on the heels of the nasty weather that has swept through Boston, the team will travel to California over spring break to compete with some of the top Div. III teams in the country.After three team seniors graduated last spring, ...
On Monday, March 16, the men’s tennis team begins its regular season play against Denison in Claremont, Calif. This will jumpstart its official three-game trip on the West Coast over spring break, in which Tufts will also play against No. 15 Pomona-Pitzer and No. 25 Cal Lutheran.Tufts finished ...
After a few lackluster years, the Jumbos have shown immense improvement in both their play and their results this fall under the tutelage of interim head coach Karl Gregor. The Jumbos' positive showing continued this weekend as they hosted the Boston Invitational tournament.On the Voute courts ...
"The team did extremely well this weekend," freshman Lauren Louks said. "It was a great way to end the fall season."
"My semifinal match against a top-seeded Middlebury player was really a breakthrough match for me," Coran said. "I got killed in the first set but came out firing in the second. I told myself that I was going to fight until the end and maintain a high level of focus."
The women’s tennis team took the court for its first dual match of the season on Wednesday afternoon, taking on local foe MIT on Voute Courts. Although the Jumbos turned in a strong effort, they fell short by a score of 5-4.The match kicked off with the three doubles matches of which the Engineers ...
Despite numerous home games during Homecoming weekend, other teams competed on the road. The women’s tennis team participated in the three-day long ITA Regional Championships, hosted by Williams. Six Jumbos -- freshmen Lauren Louks, Aandrita Deb and Zoe Miller, and sophomores Conner Calabro, Alexa ...
After a strong season opener performance at the Middlebury Invitational Tournament, the men’s tennis team went into this past weekend's USTA/ITA Regional Tournament with a chance to cement its consistent early-season play.The United States Tennis Association/International Tennis Association ...
Despite a lackluster spring season in which the men's tennis team lost several key players, the expectations remain high for this year's team, as the Jumbos return several important members to the roster this fall.
Finishing its spring break trip to California against No. 5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the No. 18 women's tennis team failed to end its first week of the spring season on a high note. Tufts started the team match slowly, losing three doubles matches by large deficits, 8-1, 8-1 and 8-0. The singles matches were also disappointing for the Jumbos, with five of the six resulting in set victories for the Athenas. The one high point for Tufts was freshman Jacqueline Baum, who earned the only win for her side with a hard-fought, comeback victory over her sophomore counterpart Yvonne Likomanova in No. 6 singles, 3-6, 6-2, 10-7. With the other simultaneously started matches ending in straight sets, Baum had her teammates watching and cheering on for the decisive third set tiebreak. Having the whole team behind me in the third set gave me a lot of confidence," Baum said. "I made a lot of changes after the first set, and tried to make [Likomanova] work more. It was a really good way to finish spring break." The loss was the team's second in a row, as the previous day the Jumbos had headed to Claremont to face the Cougars of Azusa Pacific, eventually falling 7-2. After digging a hole by losing the opening doubles matches 8-5, 8-5 and 8-4, Tufts mustered two wins in singles: sophomore Catherine Worley in the No. 6 position 6-2, 6-3, and freshman Conner Calabro in the No. 3 position 6-1, 4-6, 10-7. But spring break was not wholly disappointing for the team, as Tufts put forth its best performance of the week against Denison, 7-2. The highlight matches came in No. 1 and No. 2 singles, with two thrilling three set matches. Senior captain Samantha Gann lost her first set and won the second against Denison senior Kelsey Geppner. In the final set, Gann completed her comeback, winning the set 6-4 and the match 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Freshman Alexa Meltzer had a similarly back and forth affair at No. 2 singles against sophomore Taylor Hawkins. Meltzer won the first set in a tiebreak 7-6, lost the second 5-7 and came back to win the third set tiebreak 10-7. Calabro also starred for the Jumbos, winning her No. 3 singles match in straight sets 7-5, 6-4, and winning her doubles match against freshman Chelsea Hayashi 8-2. The other victories for Tufts came in No. 3 doubles for Baum and Gann 8-2, No. 5 singles for senior Rebecca Kimmel 6-3, 7-6 and No. 6 singles for Worley 6-0, 6-1. "We had a great match against Denison, especially starting off 2-1 in doubles," Baum said. "Doubles is one place we've been focusing on, and it was big to get those first vital wins." In Tufts' first spring break competition, on March 18 against No. 15 La Verne, the Jumbos lost 6-3. Despite falling to its foes from La Verne, Tufts had several quality individual performances. Had a couple points gone Tufts' way, the matchup may have ended differently. Kimmel won her match at No. 6 singles 6-1, 6-2, easily dispatching of La Verne freshman Lauren Torres. Calabro also cruised to a straight set victory, taking down senior Allison Moncrief 6-1, 6-0 in No. 4 singles. "La Verne was a really tough team
After an offseason full of hard work, team building and rehabilitation, the women's tennis team, ranked No. 18 in Div. III, is ready to kick off the spring season in California next week.
Freshman Conner Calabro captured the Tufts women's tennis team's only victory against MIT this Tuesday, with the Jumbos falling 8-1 to the Engineers. It was the team's first loss of the season, as the only other event of the season that was scored in team format was Tufts' 7-2 win over Babson on Sept. 18. The Jumbos were beaten out in every matchup except the No. 3 singles, in which Calabro easily defeated Krystal Lai of MIT 6-1, 6-1.
Following two tough losses last week against Williams and Amherst, the No. 18 women's tennis team got back to its winning ways at home this past Saturday in a pair of NESCAC matches against No. 15 Trinity and unranked Bates.
The women's tennis team faced off against No. 4 Amherst, suffering its second straight 9-0 loss on Tuesday. Amherst is currently second in the conference with an overall record of 11-3, and is the only other team besides defending national champions Williams that is undefeated in the NESCAC.
The No. 18 women's tennis team recovered from a 7-2 weekend loss to No. 7-conference-foe Bowdoin, topping local-rival Wellesley, 6-3, on Tuesday afternoon. The Jumbos move to 0-1 in the conference and 4-5 overall (2-4 in spring play). The singles matches were split between Tufts and its opponents, with Tufts winning two of six against Bowdoin and splitting the singles wins evenly with Wellesley. While Tufts dropped all three doubles matches to start against Bowdoin over the weekend, the opposite was true against Wellesley, with Tufts sealing all three doubles victories. Sticking with the same doubles lineup as she had against Bowdoin, head coach Kate Bayard played freshman Alexa Meltzer and senior captain Samantha Gann at the No. 2 doubles spot, and the freshmen duo of Conner Calabro and Chelsea Hayashi at the No. 3 doubles against Wellesley. With both pairings notching easy wins, 8-4 and 8-3, respectively, the Jumbos appeared to have found their groove in the doubles game. "[Against Wellesley] we did a good job taking opportunities, being gutsy and just playing aggressive, solid doubles," Gann said. "That feeling of going up after doubles, whether it be by 2-1 or 3-0, really sets the tone for the rest of the matches." At the No. 1 doubles spot, senior Shelci Bowman and freshman Jacqueline Baum played in the closest-fought doubles matchup of the day, eventually edging past their opponents, junior Sojung Lee and freshman Carina Chen in a tiebreak, 9-8 (8-6). Despite these significant strides, Bayard emphasized that the team needs to keep working to improve its doubles game. "We are certainly becoming more aggressive at net and putting more pressure on the other teams, but we still need to work on [our doubles play]," Bayard told the Daily in an email. "We need to be able to capitalize more effectively when we have offensive opportunities - to work on being able to execute our put-away shots better and play the pressure points with more confidence." At the same time, Tufts' successes in the singles game should not be overlooked. Despite going 3-3 in singles against Wellesley, all three losses saw Tufts push its opponents to the limit. Gann, who led the team in the No.1 singles match, suffered a close loss to Lee, 6-4, 3-6, 10-5. Meltzer and Baum both took their matches to a third set tiebreaker, with Meltzer at No. 2 eventually bowing out 6-4, 1-6, 10-8 to Chen, while Baum at No. 5 found herself on the wrong side of a 6-3, 3-6, 10-5 loss to freshman Dasha Kostikina. Meanwhile, freshman Conner Calabro breezed past her opponent, freshman Lina Ye, 6-2, 6-3. Bowman and senior Rebecca Kimmel also dispatched their opponents easily in the No. 4 and No. 6 singles positions, winning 6-1, 6-1, and 6-0, 6-1, respectively. "Especially in this match [against Wellesley], I feel that everyone was really focused and didn't want [to] give up any points," Gann said. "We'll definitely be taking that intensity to the rest of the matches going forward." Against Bowdoin, Tufts started out strong, but the inexperience of some of the younger players on the team showed, especially when the matches came down to the wire. "We started out really strong in the doubles, but Bowdoin upped [its] level [of play] throughout the course of the pro-sets," Bayard said in an email to the Daily. "Ultimately, Bowdoin was gutsier when it counted, and we made a few too many unforced errors when we had opportunities." That being said, four of the six doubles players are freshmen who, given the focus on individual results in juniors competition, have limited experience in doubles. Yet glimpses of the Jumbos' offseason efforts were on display against the Polar Bears, with the No. 1 doubles pairing of Bowman and Baum putting up a commendable fight against the pairing of freshman Joulia Likhanskaia and senior Emma Lewis. Bowman and Baum pushed Likhanskaia and Lewis, who have won six of their 10 doubles matches together, to 8-6. "Shelci and Jacqueline played some of the best doubles I've seen all year, but the other team stepped it up a bit more at the very end," Bayard said. Meanwhile, Bowman dropped just six games in four sets at No. 4 singles, sweeping aside Bowdoin freshman Samantha Stalder, 6-2, 6-2. Calabro was the only other Jumbo to win in singles play, beating Likhanskaia, 6-0, 7-5. With the loss to Bowdoin, Tufts moves to 0-1 in the NESCAC, and will rely on its lone captain, Gann, as the team begins to navigate conference play. "Sam's ability to truly be focused and have the same intensity for every single point in matches and practices is always inspirational for others," Bayard said. With a tough three weeks of play remaining in the regular season, Bayard is confident that the team will only get better with each game. "We had very tough competition, [but] I believe that all of those matches against great teams will only help us moving forward," Bayard said. "I was proud of how the team fought, [and] I know we'll get more mentally tough as the season progresses."
The women's tennis team took down Brandeis 8-1 Friday, closing out its dual fall season 2-1. With the loss, Brandeis moves to 0-1 in its only dual match of the fall season.
