MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In a match-up of reigning conference champions, William & Mary suffered a nail-biting 4-3 loss to Mid-American Conference Champion Toledo on Saturday afternoon at the Summit Tennis Academy.
 
W&M (3-2) claimed the doubles point with wins at the top two positions to go along with singles wins from junior Hedda Gurholt at No. 2 and graduate student Mila Mejic at No. 3. The Rockets (4-3) though won four of the six singles matches to pull out the team triumph.
 
How it Happened
- Graduate student Yu Chen and junior Emma Fernald rolled at the top doubles position, upending Sanjana Tallamraju and Julia Kuszynski, 6-1. Chen and Fernald improved to 3-1 at No. 1.
- Junior Ine Stange and Gurholt clinched the initial point of the match with a tiebreaker over Cassie Alcala and Gaby Rondon, 7-6 (6). The Tribe tandem won its third in a row improving to 4-1.
- Gurhult ran her win streak to seven straight with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Rondon at No. 2. The reigning CAA Player of the Year upped her mark to 13-2.
- At No. 6, freshman Francesca Davis dropped two tiebreakers to Toledo sophomore Audrey Moutama, including the second set in a marathon 13-11 breaker.
- The balance at the match came down to two three-set matches at No. 3 and No. 4.
- Mejic rallied from a set deficit to down Sanjana Tallamraju at No. 3. After the Rocket player won the opening set, 6-3, the Tribe graduate student bounced back with a tiebreaker win in the second, 7-6 (5), before taking the third, 6-3. It was her fifth win of the year.
- The Rockets notched a come-from-behind three-set win of their own at No. 4 to secure the team triumph.
 
Up Next
The Tribe wraps up its road trip to by facing West Virginia at the Summit Tennis Center on Sunday at 11 a.m.
 
Toledo 4, William & Mary 3
Singles
No. 1 – Cassie Alcala (Toledo) def. Yu Chen (W&M) – 6-3, 6-1
No. 2 – Hedda Gurholt (W&M) def. Gaby Rondon (Toledo) – 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 – Mila Mejic (W&M) def. Sanjana Tallamraju (Toledo) – 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
No. 4 – Sloane Teske (Toledo) def. Ine Stange (W&M) – 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
No. 5 – Shalini Tallamraju (Toledo) def. Emma Fernald (W&M) – 6-3, 6-0
No. 6 – Audrey Moutama (Toledo) def. Francesca Davis (W&M) – 7-6 (4), 7-6 (11)
 
Doubles
No. 1 – Chen/Fernald (W&M) def. Kuszynski/Sa. Tallamraju (Toledo) – 6-1
No. 2 – Gurholt/Stange (W&M) def. Alcala/Rondon (Toledo) – 7-6 (6)
No. 3 – Moutama/Teske (Toledo) def. Davis/Vaissaud (W&M) – 6-3