Tessa Hill, Washington and Lee, Fr., #2 Singles, #1 Doubles

Tessa Hill, Washington and Lee, Fr., #2 Singles, #1 Doubles

Hill, a freshman from Canton, Ohio, participated in all six of Washington and Lee's matches last week, going 10-0 between #2 singles and #1 doubles in the process.  The Generals went 5-1 during that stretch.  In singles action, the 11th-ranked player in the ITA's Atlantic South Region won 6-1, 6-0 over Christopher Newport and then trounced the nation's 29th-ranked player, John Hopkins' Megumi Chen, 6-4, 6-2.  She followed that with a win over Randolph-Macon, 6-2, 6-2, and then capped her singles performances with a 6-0, 6-0 triumph over Virginia Wesleyan.  In doubles play, Hill and partner Brooke Donnelly form the 22nd-ranked team in the NCAA Division III. They went 6-0, picking wins over CNU (8-4), JHU (8-4), R-MC (8-0), VWC (8-0), Shenandoah (8-0), and Emory & Henry (8-2). Hill is currently 11-5 overall this spring in singles action, including 6-0 against ODAC foes.  She and Donnelly are 14-3 in doubles player overall and 7-0 in league play.

Women's Tennis Honor Roll

Sveva Mazzari, Emory & Henry (Fr. - 1/1)
Mazzari wehtn 2-0 at #1 singles and 1-1 at #1 doubles with Savanna Summers.  Mazzari opened with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Washington and Lee's Michelle Fleenor, who is the 15th-ranked singles player in the Atlantic South Region. She then won 6-0, 6-0 over Bridgewater and was joined by Summers for an 8-2 doubles win to secure two points in E&H's 5-4 win over the Eagles. Mazzari and Summers fell 8-2 to W&L in the earlier match.

Erika Hadland, Lynchburg (Fr. - 2/2)
Hadland went 4-0 last week between #2 singles and #2 doubles action. She won 6-4, 6-0 and 7-6 (7-1), 6-2 in singles matches against Virginia Wesleyan and Randolph, helping LC to 6-3 and 5-4 team wins, respectively.  She and Kelsey Dowling posted 8-1 and 8-3 doubles wins, which help LC lock up its 11th and 12th team victories of the year.  That ties a school-record for most wins in a season.

Kelsie Grice, Randolph-Macon (Jr. - 1/2)
Grice went 4-2 between #1 singles and #2 doubles play in three matches.  She posted singles wins of 6-0, 6-1 and 7-5, 6-2 over Virginia Union and Roanoke before falling to nationally 27th-ranked Brooke Donnelly from Washignton and Lee, 6-1, 6-0.  Grice and Gaby Tersigni posted doubles victories of 8-0 and 8-4 against VUU and RC before falling to W&L, 8-0.