April 3, 2010

Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, PA - The 13th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's tennis team dropped a total of just 11 games en route to a 9-0 win over host Ursinus in Centennial Conference action Saturday morning. The Blue Jays win their third in a row to improve to 5-6 overall and 3-0 in the conference. The Bears slip to 4-6 overall and 1-3 in the conference.

Hopkins opened the match by sweeping all three doubles while losing just three out of 26 total games. Sophomore Vanessa Charubhumi (East Elmhurst, NY/Stuyvesant) and freshman Renata Smith (Mercer Island, WA/Mercer Island) won eight straight games to defeat Christina Lippe and Chelsea Carman 8-0 at third. At first, juniors Abby Dwyer (Stuart, FL/Jensen Beach) and Yasmine Elamir (Saddle River, NJ/Heritage Academy (SC)) lost just one game in beating Jenna Hope and Julia Kurtz, 8-1. Freshmen Yoko Hirase (Plano, TX/Plano West) and Ariel Several (Gladwyne, PA/Friends' Central School) won by an identical 8-1 score over Jimena Talavera and Jessica Tyrrell at second.

In singles action, Charubhumi led the Blue Jays with a 6-0, 6-0 win at fourth over Jacqueline Heikel. Several and Dwyer won by identical 6-0, 6-1 scores at first and second, respectively. Several's win came over Hope, while Dwyer beat Kurtz. At third, Elamir went 6-1, 6-1 over Talavera. Hirase also dropped just one game, beating Lippe 6-1, 6-0 at fifth. And at sixth, Smith won a tough first set, 6-4, but then rolled to a 6-0 win in the second to defeat Deborah Choi.

Hopkins, which has now won 33 straight Centennial Conference matches, returns to action on Sunday, April 4 at 10th-ranked Carnegie Mellon. The non-conference match is slated to begin at noon.