MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – The No. 5 nationally ranked Wesleyan women's tennis team completed a perfect regular season, defeating Conn. College 9-0 on Saturday afternoon, moving to 17-0 (10-0 NESCAC) heading into postseason play next weekend which will be hosted at Wesleyan. In a historic season, this Cardinal squad becomes the first-ever at Wesleyan to complete an undefeated regular season (in a traditional season) since the NESCAC formally became a playing conference in 1999.
In terms of Wesleyan Athletics history, there have been 15 teams to win every match/game/contest in a single-season. This Wesleyan women's tennis team joins a select list that includes men's basketball (1911-12), wrestling (1941-42, 1942-43, 1967-68), football (1946, 1947, 1948, 1969), men's crew (1985-86, 1986-87), women's crew (1985-86, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1998-99) and last season's women's tennis' pandemic-shortened 2021 campaign, to complete a perfect regular season.
The Cardinals made history on Senior Day at the John Wood Memorial Tennis Courts, nearly finishing off the Camels without dropping a single point/game on the afternoon. Wesleyan lost just one single game in three doubles matches as
Sophie Henderson '22 and
Nika Vesely '25 finished off Caitlin Cass and Ella Griffiths 8-0 at #2 while
Kristina Yu '22 and
Venia Yeung '22 won by the same score at #3 over Henri Waltz and Teagan O'Hara. At #1,
Sasha Gaeth '23 and
Caitlyn Ferrante '23 defeated Allison Falvey and Brooke Scully soundly by a score of 8-1.
In singles play, it was nearly a perfect 6-for-6 in terms of clean 6-0, 6-0 sweeps as the Cardinals dropped just one total game in six singles matches. Yeung,
Serim Jin '23, Yu,
Kriti Williams and Gaeth all won their respective matches by 6-0, 6-0 sweeps while
Katie Fleischman '23 won her match 6-1, 6-0 at #1 to finish off a dominant 9-0 victory for Wesleyan.
The Cardinals now results around the NESCAC on Sunday as Wesleyan will head into the NESCAC Tournament as the top-seed and host. Wesleyan will face either Bates or Hamilton in the Quarterfinal round on Friday. The match start time is to be determined.
