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| Tilly Rigby won a pair of hard-fought doubles and singles matches for Tufts. |
(Feature photo from 2019)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - The Tufts University women's tennis team earned its first victory over Middlebury College since the 2011 season on Sunday by a 7-2 score.
Head coach Kate Bayard's Jumbos split their squad on Sunday with half staying home to play Connecticut College and the other half traveling to Vermont to face the Panthers. Both Jumbo teams won and Tufts ends the day with a 4-0 record. Middlebury falls to 1-2.
Tufts swept doubles after the #2 duo of Casey Cummings and Tilly Rigby won a tie-breaker to take their match 8-7 (4). The Jumbo #3 team Patricia Obeid and Maddie Suk had won convincingly 8-1, while the top tandem of Maggie Dorr and Caroline Garrido recorded an 8-4 victory.
The Jumbos won the first two singles matches and nailed down the team victory. Suk was a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Emily Bian at #3. Like in her doubles match, Rigby worked hard for the clinching win at #1 singles. She was down a set against Amy Delman before coming back to win on a tie-breaker 3-6, 6-4, 10-1.
With the match decided, Middlebury's first win of the day came from Gena Huang at #2 singles 6-3, 6-3. However, Cummings and Nicki Frankel scored the next two victories for Tufts for a 7-1 Jumbo advantage. Cummings lost just five games on the fourth singles court and Frankel won a first-set tie-break during her victory in fifth singles. Caitlin Neal won the last match to finish for the hosts 7-6 (1), 6-0 in the sixth spot.
The Jumbos will play at Bates next Saturday.
