Sweet Briar tennis (23-4, 9-1 ODAC) wrapped up the 2021-22 season after advancing to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship, falling to the No. 1 seeded Washington and Lee Generals (15-6, 9-0 ODAC) 5-0.
With both teams meeting each other for the second-straight time in the finals, the Vixens fell behind in doubles play with both pairings of Guilarte/Wandling and Caro/Simhambhatla losing their matches 8-1. The team of de Souza/Patino gave the Generals' No. 1 doubles pair a run for the money, trading leads throughout the match before falling 8-6.
The match was wrapped up in singles play after Becket Waters defeated Sofia Andrade (Latacunga, Ecuador) 6-0, 6-4 at the No. 3 spot and Marta Mikos took down Allison Wandling (Mechanicsville, Va.) 6-3, 6-2 at the No. 4 spot.
Junior Ruth de Souza (Marilia, Brazil) and first-year Ana Patino (Medellín, Colombia) had won their first sets by scores of 6-3 and 6-4, respectively and were leading 2-1 and 4-3 in the second set when the match was stopped.
Sophomore Isabela Guilarte (Barquisimeto, Venezuela) was poised to start her second set after dropping the first one to Margaret Carlton 7-6 while junior Kate Kotany (Erd, Hungary) was trailing 3-4 in her first set.
Highlights
- Sweet Briar's two first-set victories mark the first time that the team has taken singles sets away from Washington and Lee in these back-to-back championship meet-ups.
- The Vixens wrap up a 2021-22 season which saw five program records broken and both de Souza and Wandling hit 100 career wins.
The Vixens will now begin to prepare for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
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