COLLEGE PARK, Md. – William & Mary started hot behind a pair of nationally-ranked doubles wins, but Maryland pulled out a 6-1 win at the Junior Tennis Champions Center on Saturday.
The Tribe (4-2) won the doubles point to start the contest behind nationally-ranked wins from senior
Elisa Van Meeteren and sophomore
Emma Fernald at No. 1 and graduate student
Sofiya Kuzina and sophomore
Ine Stange at No. 2. The Terps (8-1) rallied by winning all six singles matches.
How It Happened
- After Maryland posted a doubles win at No. 3, the Tribe's top two teams pulled out impressive 6-4 wins to secure the match's initial point. Van Meeteren and Fernald topped the No. 54-ranked duo of Minorka Miranda and Marta Perez Mur on line one. The duo improved to 2-1 at No. 1 and 5-3 overall.
- Kuzina and Stange, the reigning CAA Doubles Team of the Week, upended the No. 19-ranked tandem of Selma Cadar and Mary Brumfield for their fourth-straight win. It was the highest-ranekd doubles win for a Tribe team since 2016.
- Maryland responded with straight-set wins at No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 singles to claim the match.
- At No. 6, freshman
Emma Pell won the opening set, 6-4, from Jojo Bach, but the Maryland player forced a decisive third set. Bach outlasted the Tribe freshman in the third-set super breaker, 10-5.
Up Next
The Tribe returns to action when it hosts its second CAA match against Hampton at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m.
Maryland 6, William & Mary 1
Singles
No. 1 – Selma Cadar (UMD) def.
Hedda Gurholt (W&M) – 6-1, 6-0
No. 2 – Marta Perez Mur (UMD) def.
Elisa Van Meeteren (W&M) – 6-1, 6-4
No. 3 – Minorka Miranda (UMD) def.
Sofiya Kuzina (W&M) – 6-4, 6-4
No. 4 – Kallista Liu (UMD) def.
Emma Fernald (W&M) – 6-4, 6-0
No. 5 – Hannah McColgan (UMD) def.
Alisia Manolescu (W&M) – 6-3, 6-3
No. 6 – Jojo Bach (UMD) def.
Emma Pell (W&M) -4-6, 6-1, 10-5
Finishing Order: 1, 2, 4, 5*, 3, 6
Doubles
No. 1 - Van Meeteren/Fernald (W&M) def. #54 Miranda/Perez Mur (UMD) – 6-4
No. 2 – Kuzina/Stange (W&M) def. #19 Brumfeld/Cadar (UMD) – 6-4
No. 3 – Bach/McColgan (UMD) def. Gurholt/Pell (W&M) – 6-2
Finishing Order: 3, 1, 2*