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Hempstead, N.Y. – The Fordham women's tennis team rebounded from a 7-0 home defeat on Wednesday with a 5-2 victory over nearby Hofstra on Thursday afternoon, with four different players all notching both singles and doubles wins. With the win, the Rams move into double-digit victories and sit at 10-5 on the season, while the Pride fall to 10-6 overall.
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Doubles action went down in order and needed the rubber match to award the visitors the point.
Mayu Sato and
Estelle Wong defeated Sarah Bowen and Carmen Pestano, 6-1, before Sarah Herndon and Michal Kaplan dropped
Gianna Insogna and
Whitney Weisberg by the same score. The tandem of
Alexis Zobeideh and
Destiny Grunin, losers of two straight after going 6-2 to start the spring, won their seventh doubles contest as a pair with a 6-4 decision of Disha Yellayi and Giulia Leone.
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Hofstra picked up two singles wins, at the fifth and sixth positions, before Fordham rattled off four straight victories to seal the 5-2 victory.
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Sato's 6-3, 6-4 win over Bowen was the first to finish, followed by Grunin's 6-3, 6-2 victory over Pestano, and
Estelle Wong clinched the match with a 6-3, 7-5 defeat of Kaplan in #2 singles.
Alexis Zobeideh also won, 6-4, 6-3, over Herndon.
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The Rams have now alternated three wins and three losses over their last six contests and now return home to host both NYIT and Massachusetts this weekend on the Hawthorn/Rooney courts on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Saturday's match against NYIT is set to begin at 1 p.m.
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ResultsSinglesMayu Sato (FOR) def. Sarah Bowen (HOF), 6-3, 6-4
Estelle Wong (FOR) def. Michal Kaplan (HOF), 6-3, 7-5
Alexis Zobeideh (FOR) def. Sarah Herndon (HOF), 6-4, 6-3
Destiny Grunin (FOR) def. Carmen Pestano (HOF), 6-3, 6-2
Disha Yellayi (HOF) def.
Gianna Insogna (FOR), 6-4, 6-0
Giulia Leone (HOF) def.
Whitney Weisberg (FOR), 6-4, 7-5
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DoublesSato/Wong (FOR) def. Bowen/Pestano (HOF), 6-1
Herndon/Kaplan (HOF) def. Insogna/Weisberg (FOR), 6-1
Zobeideh/Grunin (FOR) def. Yellayi/Leone (HOF), 6-4
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