Box ScoreBronx, N.Y. – The Fordham women's tennis team competed in its penultimate regular season match, against Massachusetts at the Hawthorn/Rooney Courts on the Rose Hill campus on Sunday afternoon but lost, 6-1, to the Minutewomen to fall to 11-6 on the season, with a 2-2 record against Atlantic 10 opponents. Massachusetts improves to 14-6 with the result.
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The Rams have just one match left, at Queens College on Tuesday afternoon, before this week's Atlantic 10 tournament. On Sunday, the Rams could muster just one singles and one doubles victory.
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Mayu Sato and
Estelle Wong paired up to shut out Ana Yrazusta and Carol Beinto, 6-0, but Massachusetts took the second and third doubles.
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In singles play,
Destiny Grunin was the lone Ram to claim victory, with a comeback 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 win over Anna Woosley. Fordham's top three singles players all lost in three-set matches.
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Fordham is in Flushing on Tuesday to take on Queens College. The match is set to begin at 1 p.m.
ResultsSingles
Ruth Crawford (MASS) def.
Mayu Sato (FOR), 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (11-9), 10-2
Ana Yrazusta (MASS) def.
Estelle Wong (FOR0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0
Arielle Griffin (MASS) def.
Alexis Zobeideh (FOR), 6-7 (1-7), 6-2, 6-2
Destiny Grunin (FOR) def. Anna Woosley (UMASS), 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
Carol Benito (MASS) def.
Whitney Weisberg (FOR), 6-0, 6-1
Brittany Collens (MASS) def.
Gianna Insogna (FOR), 6-0, 7-6 (9-7)
(Order of Finish: 5, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1)
DoublesWong/Sato (FOR) def. Yrazusta/Benito (MASS), 6-0
Woosley/Crawford (MASS) def. Weisberg/Insogna (FOR), 6-0
Laura Moreno/Griffin (MASS) def. Grunin/Zobeideh (FOR), 6-4
(Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3)
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