Box Score

Junior Ashnaa Rao clinched the win over the Generals at first singles.

Washington & Lee Box Score


BALTIMORE, MD - The 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's tennis team picked up a pair of wins on Wednesday afternoon to improve to 12-4 on the season. Hopkins earned a 9-0 shutout in Centennial Conference action at McDaniel to move to 7-0 in league play. Meanwhile in Baltimore, JHU rallied to beat 13th-ranked Washington & Lee, 5-4, in non-conference action.

The Blue Jays swept the doubles versus the Green Terror, dropping just one game, en route to an early 3-0 lead. Junior Anna Kankanala and freshman Chrissy Simon won 8-1 at first over Winsome Schauer and Leesa Malczewski. At second, junior Amanda Soo Ping Chow and freshman Mika Inadomi beat Angie Johnson and Laura Penhallegon, 8-0. Freshman Katie Gauch and senior Andrea Joseph won by the same score over Jessica Measimer and Lindsay Russell at third.

In singles, Hopkins swept the six matches in straight sets while losing a total of four games. Kankanala was a 6-0, 6-2 winner at first over Schauer. While Simon and Soo Ping Chow each won 6-0, 6-0 at second and third, respectively. Inadomi and Gauch each won by 6-0, 6-1 scores at fourth and fifth, while Joseph beat Russell 6-0, 6-0 at sixth.

Back in Baltimore, Hopkins and Washington & Lee battled to the very end in a rematch of the first round of the 2016 ITA National Indoor Team Championship. In that match in late February, the Blue Jays found themselves in a 3-0 hole after doubles and rallied to win 5-4. This afternoon, the Jays trailed 2-1 after doubles before coming back to win 5-4.

Michelle Fleenor and Rachel Hicks beat sophomore Megumi Chen and freshman Kimberly Zou, 8-4, at second doubles. Sophomore Caroline Greydak and junior Jody Law tied the match with an 8-6 win over Emily Kochard and M. H. McNeal at third. But an 8-4 win for Brooke Donnelly and Tessa Hill, the 22nd-ranked doubles team in the nation, over juniors Mikey Barthelmass and Ashnaa Rao gave the Generals a 2-1 lead.

Rao clinched the win for Hopkins as she prevailed in three sets over the region's top-ranked singles player - Donnelly. Rao won 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 to avenge her earlier loss to Donnelly at ITA Indoors. Hill beat Chen 6-4, 6-2 at second and Fleenor won 7-6 (0), 6-3 over Law at third. Sophomore Sunaina Vohra picked up a quick 6-1, 6-1 win over McNeal at fourth. Greydak beat Melinda Kauffman 6-4, 6-4 at fifth and Zou defeated Kochard 6-3, 6-1 at sixth.

Hopkins returns to the court on Saturday, April 23 at Muhlenberg.