SAN ANTONIO, TX – The 26
th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's tennis team upset host and 15
th-ranked Trinity (TX), 6-3, on Thursday night to wrap up its Spring Break trip to Texas. The Blue Jays win their sixth straight as they improve to 8-3, while the Tigers fall to 8-4.
The Tigers jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but the Blue Jays won six of the next seven matches to earn the come-from-behind win.
Ellie Hughes and Brooke Belitz picked up the first point of the match with an 8-1 win at third doubles over senior
Christina Huynh and freshman
Niamh Harding. Olivia Kim and Ruth Hill then defeated freshman
Kamila Wong and
Jay Xiao at first. Graduate student
Mary Beth Hurley and senior
Emily Javedan started the comeback with an 8-2 win at second over 16
th-ranked Cate Cushing and Trinity Levy.
Senior
Anjali Devireddy took the first singles point and tied the match at two when she beat Cushing 6-3, 6-3 at fourth. Harding then gave the Blue Jays the lead with a 6-2, 6-2 win oat sixth over Ella Cummings. Hill answered with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 win over Xiao at first to tie the match at three.
Huynh put Hopkins back on top, for good it turned out, when she came back to beat Hughes 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 at fifth. Hurley then clinched the victory with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win at second over Kim. Wong closed out the match at third with a 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 win over Levy, ranked 28
th in the nation.
Hopkins returns to action on Tuesday, March 28 with a pair of matches at home versus Bryn Mawr and at Towson.
Notes: The 15
th-ranked Tigers are the highest ranked opponent the Blue Jays since a 5-1 win over 15
th-ranked Mary Washington on May 11, 2019.