CLINTON, N.Y. – In their first road match in nearly a month, the Wesleyan women's tennis team rolled past Hamilton with a 9-0 win, giving the Cardinals an unblemished 5-0 record (4-0 NESCAC West Division) and a spot in the NESCAC Championship match next Saturday at home against No. 11 Tufts.

After enjoying an off weekend for the first time in the Cardinals' shortened spring season, Wesleyan benefitted from the extra rest as the visitors defeated Hamilton by a combined score of 24-7 in the three doubles matches and didn't drop a set in six singles matches on the afternoon.



NOTES

• Wesleyan rolled in the doubles portion as the Cardinals swept all three points for the third straight match starting at No. 1 where Venia Yeung '22 and Katie Fleischman '23 defeated Audrey Chor and Lauren Holtzman 8-2
• Alexis Almy '22 and Caitlin Goldberg '23 combined to defeat Sophia Aulicino and Ajla Karabegovic by the same score at No. 2 while seniors Alissa Nakamoto '21 and Daniela Alvarez '21 teamed up for the first time and scored an 8-3 win at No. 3
• In the singles portion, Kriti Williams '24 was first to finish at No. 6 as she almost swept both sets in a convincing 6-0, 6-1 win over Becca Ingber
• Megan Tran '22 was not far behind Williams as the junior toppled Karabegovic by a 6-0, 6-2 scoreline at No. 4
• Serim Jin '23 moved to 5-0 in singles play this season as she cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win at No. 3 over Chor
• Fleischman picked up her second win on the day at No. 2 with a dominating 6-2, 6-1 victory over Holtzman
• The other two singles matched did see Wesleyan tested a bit as Yeung won the first set at No. 1 by a score of 6-2 but the second set went into a tiebreak which Yeung did pull out by a 7-5 score to win the match over Sophia Aulicino
• Finally, at No. 5 it was Sasha Gaeth '23 who went into a thrilling first set tiebreak against Claire Cutler that saw Gaeth ultimately pull out the win 13-11. Gaeth capitalized on that momentum and rolled to a 6-2 second set win to take the match

Doubles

• #1: Yeung/Fleischman (WES) def. Chor/Holtzman (HAM) 8-2
• #2: Almy/Goldberg (WES) def. Aulicino/Karabegovic (HAM) 8-2
• #3: Nakamoto/Alvarez (WES) def. Cutler/Glidden (HAM) 8-3

Singles

• #1: Yeung (WES) def. Aulicino (HAM) 6-2, 7-6 (7-5)
• #2: Fleischman (WES) def. Holtzman (HAM) 6-2, 6-1
• #3: Jin (WES) def. Chor (HAM) 6-2, 6-1
• #4: Tran (WES) def. Karabegovic (HAM) 6-0, 6-2
• #5: Gaeth (WES) def. Cutler (HAM) 7-6 (13-11), 6-2
• #6: Williams (WES) def. Ingber (HAM) 6-0, 6-1

UP NEXT
Wesleyan is set to vie for a second straight NESCAC Championship after winning the program's first back in 2019. The Cardinals are set to go up against Tufts who leads in the all-time series 10-5 but Wesleyan has won four of the last five meetings including the last two straight.