Freshmen Angelica Zhou (Temple City, Calif. \/ Arcadia) and Alexandra Bodrova (Russia \/ Kurchatovskaya School) each picked up big wins and combined for a third win for the Caltech women’s tennis team in its season debut at nationally-ranked Linfield College on Friday. Thanks to Zhou and others, the Beavers nearly stole the victory, but ultimately fell to the No. 35 Wildcats, 5-4.<\/p>\n
Both freshmen quickly proved themselves as key additions to the team, first with Zhou defeating Marisa Doveri at third singles, 6-4, 6-1. Zhou then teamed with Bodrova to defeat Riley Clayeux and Basia Kopecka in the second doubles spot, 8-5. All of the doubles matches were played in eight-game pro sets. Bodrova had the largest margin of victory of the day for Caltech, earning a victory over Kelsey Bartlett, 6-2, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, second-ranked singles player sophomore Kana Moriyama (Redmond, Wash. \/ Redmond) picked up a routine victory over Clayeux, 6-3, 6-1. Moriyama also competed in doubles with top-ranked singles player Julia Reisler (Plano, Texas \/ Greenhill) in what one of two outcome-deciding matches of the day, both of which involved Reisler. The duo dropped their closely contested match, 8-6, and Reisler came a few breaks away from pulling out the victory in her singles match, with the second set being decided in a tiebreaker. The sophomore ended up on the short end of things, 7-5, 7-6 (5). Senior Sofia Chen (Newport Beach, Calif. \/ Corona Del Mar) came perhaps the closest to earning the decisive point for the Beavers when she took first set from Michelle Ly, 7-5, before dropping the final two sets 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Freshmen Angelica Zhou (Temple City, Calif. \/ Arcadia) and Alexandra Bodrova (Russia \/ Kurchatovskaya School) each picked up big wins and combined for a third win for the Caltech women’s tennis team in its season debut at nationally-ranked Linfield College on Friday. Thanks to Zhou and others, the Beavers nearly stole the victory, but ultimately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-girlstennis","category-topstories"],"yoast_head":"\n