No. 19 Bulldogs Remain Perfect at Home, Beat SBU 7-0

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Elizabeth Epstein. (photo by Sam Rubin '95, Yale Sports Publicity)

Claim Doubles Point for 10^th Straight Match

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The No. 19 Yale women's tennis team bounced back from its second loss of the season with an emphatic 7-0 victory over Stony Brook Sunday afternoon at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. With the win, the Bulldogs move to 8-2 on the season, including a perfect 4-0 mark at home.

Yale has not lost back-to-back matches in nearly two years, and Sunday provided the Bulldogs with a chance to keep that streak intact by bouncing back from a 4-3 loss at Syracuse a week earlier.

This match started as the previous nine had: with Yale winning the doubles point. Senior captain Steph Kent and sophomore Blair Seideman were first off the courts with an 8-4 win at No. 3, and a win at No. 1 by senior Vicky Brook and freshman Hanna Yu clinched the doubles point.

In singles, sophomore Annie Sullivan's win at No. 6 gave Yale a 2-0 lead, and wins by Seideman (at No. 3) and junior Elizabeth Epstein (at No. 1) followed to clinch the match. After Brook won at No. 5, Kent capped a comeback with a win in a third-set tiebreaker at No. 4 and Yu did the same at No. 2.

Yale returns to action Thursday at BU.

Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity