For Immediate Release
September 12, 2009
Wellesley Sports Information
Wellesley Tennis Opens 2009 Season With Win Over Smith
WELLESLEY, Mass. – The Wellesley College tennis team opened the 2009 season with an 8-1 victory over NEWMAC rival Smith College on Saturday. The match was held indoors at the Keohane Sports Center due to rainy conditions in Wellesley.
Wellesley opened play taking a 3-0 lead in the doubles matches. The Blue's Mohona Siddique (Chevy Chase, MD) and Jacqueline Shen (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) paired up to grab an 8-2 victory over the Smith pair of Jamie Inskeep (Warrenville, IL) and Gianna Teague (Gahanna, OH) at first doubles. In the second spot, Wellesley's Marie Wantanabe (Houston, TX) and Nathalie Herman (San Francisco, CA) won 8-2, over Holly Reich (Roslyn Heights, NY) and Alanna Dick (Winthrop, ME).
Completing the doubles sweep, Meghan Stubblebine (Cumming, GA) and newcomer Stephanie Chu (Hilo HI) defeated Smith's Maggie Steiner (Madison, CT) and Allie Hawkins (Plainfield, NH), 8-1.
In singles, Smith got on the board in the second spot where Reich was a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 winner over Siddique. Wellesley, however, took the other five singles matches to seal the 8-1 victory. At one, Wantanabe was a 6-3, 6-0 winner over Isabela Pal (Constanta, Romania), while Shen won 6-1, 6-1 over Inskeep at two.
In the fourth doubles spot, Herman won 6-3, 6-1 over Teague while Stubblebine defeated Clair Oblamski (Elm Grove, WI), 6-4, 6-0. In a marathon match at the sixth spot, Julia Cole (Fairfield, CT) earned her first collegiate win, defeating Dick, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 10-6.
Wellesley starts the 2009 season with a 1-0 record while Smith is 0-1. Both teams will next compete at the Omni ITA Tournament September 18-20 hosted by MIT.
NEWMAC Women's Tennis
Wellesley 8, Smith 1
Sept. 12, 2009
SINGLES
1. Marie Watanabe (W) def. Isabela Pal (S), 6-3, 6-0
2. Holly Reich (S) def. Mohona Siddique (W), 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
3. Jacqueline Shen (W) def. Jamie Inskeep (S), 6-1, 6-1
4. Nathalie Herman (W) def. Gianna Teague (W), 6-3, 6-1
5. Meghan Stubblebine (W) def. Clair Oblamski (S), 6-4, 6-0
6. Julia Cole (W) def. Alanna Dick (S) 3-6, 7-6 (5), 10-6
*7. Anne Belmonte (S) def. Sanam Sidhu (W), 8-1
*8. Mariya Chokova (W) def. Rachel Wetmore (S), 6-4
DOUBLES
1. Siddique/Shen (W) def. Inskeep/Teague (S), 8-2
2. Wantanabe/Herman (W) def. Reich/Dick (S), 8-2
3. Stubblebine/Chu (W) def. Maggie Steiner/Allie Hawkins (S), 8-1
*4. Nawal Mays/RachelCantona (S) def. Sidhu/Chokova (W), 8-2
*Exhibition