CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Columbia women's tennis team opened the ECAC Championships with a strong 4-0 win against Dartmouth on Friday afternoon at Harvard's Murr Center. Columbia improves to 7-1 overall this season.
Columbia continued to show some strength in its doubles game by securing the doubles point to start Friday's dual match. The duos of
Gayathri Krishnan and
Sophia Strugnell and
Winta Tewolde and
Rachele Rimondini won their matches to clinch the doubles point for the Lions.
Krishnan and Strugnell continued their perfect doubles record this spring and moved to 6-0 with a win over Dartmouth's Brooke Hess and Katie Weber in the No. 2 doubles, 6-2. Tewolde and Rimondini clinched the doubles point for Columbia with a hard fought, 7-6(4) win against Lexi Dewire and Caroline Lemcke in the No. 3 spot.
The Lions carried the momentum over to singles play and didn't let up to finish off the 4-0 sweep to advance in the winner's bracket of the ECAC Championships.
Sophia Wang secured the first singles win of the afternoon for the Lions with a quick, 6-1, 6-2 victory against Dewire in the No. 3 singles.
Salma Farhat extended Columbia's lead to 3-0 with a strong, 6-2, 6-4 win over Hess in the No. 5 spot.
Krishnan capped off an impressive afternoon on the court by clinching the match for Columbia with a win in the No. 2 singles. Krishnan battled back after dropping the first set to post a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win against Dartmouth's Moore.
UP NEXT
Columbia meets Brown in ECAC Championships semifinal match Saturday at 5 p.m. The winner will move on to the championship Sunday.
RESULTS
Columbia vs. Dartmouth
Feb. 9, 2024 – Cambridge, Mass.
Columbia 4, Dartmouth 0
DOUBLES
1.
Anna Zhang/
Sophia Wang (COL) vs. Peyton Capuano/Michela Moore (DART), 6-6 (unfinished)
2.
Gayathri Krishnan/
Sophia Strugnell (COL) def. Brooke Hess/Katie Weber (DART), 6-2
3.
Winta Tewolde/
Rachele Rimondini (COL) def. Lexi Dewire/Caroline Lemcke (DART), 7-6(4)
SINGLES
1.
Julia Haynes (COL) vs. Peyton Capuano (DART), 6-2, 4-5 (unfinished)
2.
Gayathri Krishnan (COL) def. Michela Moore (DART), 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
3.
Sophia Wang (COL) def. Lexi Dewire (DART), 6-1, 6-2
4.
Winta Tewolde (COL) vs. Caroline Lemcke (DART), 3-6, 6-3, 1-4 (unfinished)
5.
Salma Farhat (COL) def. Brooke Hess (DART), 6-2, 6-4
6.
Sophia Strugnell (COL) vs. Katie Weber (DART), 6-3, 2-6, 2-4 (unfinished)
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (3,5,2)
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