HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College women's tennis team started off Centennial Conference play with a 5-0 win against McDaniel. Due to playing indoors, the two sides agreed to just play the match to decision. The Fords (5-1, 1-0 CC) needed just the minimum five matches to secure their first conference victory of the season.
Shuffling the doubles lineup for today's match, the Haverford's No. 1 pairing of Emily Shutman and Jane Bary remained the same. That duo won by an 8-2 score and improved to 4-2 together this spring in the top doubles match. The Fords' No. 1 doubles team has now won two straight together.
The new pairs to the lineup in Natalie Williams/Ananya Prakash (No. 2 doubles) and Sarah Evenson/Jia-Ling Tuan (No. 3 doubles) did not drop a single game in their first matches paired together. The victories in doubles were the first of both Prakash's and Evenson's collegiate careers. The Fords are now a combined 13-5 in all of their doubles matches this spring.
Needing just two wins in singles to seal the team victory, Haverford got those victories from Greta Koch and Sam Berg as neither player dropped a game. Koch moved up to the No. 2 position in the lineup and is now tied for the team lead with her sixth singles win of the year. Up three spots to No. 3 in the lineup, Berg is now 4-2 during the spring season and has won her last two singles matches.
Julia Gan and Izzy Angstman were also up a set and closing in on their own victories before the match reached decision. Angstman was making her spring debut in singles and was just two games away from a win at No. 4 singles after having dropped only one game during her second set. Gan assumed her position at the top of the lineup and won her opening set 6-2 and came through with the first game of the second before the match was called.
Natalie Williams and Mima Khazanov were slated to fill the Nos. 5 and 6 positions in the lineup but were not needed with the Fords clinching the match in the minimum amount of matches.
Women's tennis will look for its second straight Centennial Conference victory on Tuesday when the Fords travel to Muhlenberg for a 4 p.m. match. Haverford will return home a day later to face off with TCNJ in another 4 p.m. start.