The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-8, Christopher Newport-1
• Records: JHU (8-0) • CNU (6-6)
• Location: Newport News, VA • Eyre Courts
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's tennis team cruised to an 8-1 win over host Christopher Newport Sunday afternoon in non-conference action.
 
How it Happened
• Hopkins jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a sweep of the doubles' matches. Sophomores Anjali Devireddy and Emily Javedan beat Tessa Trate and Amanda Yermal, the fifth-ranked doubles team in the Atlantic South, 8-2, at first. Graduate student Sophia Strickland and senior Anjie Kashyap dropped just one game in their win at second over Reagan Delp and Kara Ferner. Senior Dhanya Asokumar and freshman Ali Bader won 8-4 at third over Ana Clara Borga and Kiersten Chang.
• Javedan lost just one game as she beat Karina Crivtonencu 6-1 6-0 at sixth singles. Strickland then clinched the win for the Blue Jays as she beat Chang 6-1, 6-1 at fourth. Kashyap was a 6-0, 6-2 winner over Trate, ranked 10^th in the region, at second singles.
• Asokumar defeated Yermal 6-3, 6-3 at fifth and Bader beat Ferner 7-5, 6-0 at third. The Captains grabbed their only point of the match at first singles as Reagan Delp, ranked seventh in the region, defeat Devireddy 7-6 (7), 6-3.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins improves to 4-0 all-time against Christopher Newport and has lost a total of just four matches in the last three meetings.
• Today's match was the first non-conference match for the Blue Jays since February 29, 2020.
• Kashyap is now tied for 16^th with 40 career doubles wins and is tied for 19^th with 76 total wins.