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lalasa Nagireddy
Mikayla Rudolph
3
Sewanee SEWW (16-6)
4
Winner Kenyon College KENW (16-6)
Sewanee SEWW
(16-6)
3
Final
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Kenyon College KENW
(16-6)
Winner

Match Recap: Women's Tennis |

Owls take down Tigers, advance to third round at NCAA

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – After a gruelling singles duel that lasted nearly four hours with the match tied at three, senior Lalasa Nagireddy came away with the third set victory in her sixth flight match to push the Kenyon College women's tennis team over Sewanee and into the third round of the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships on Saturday evening. 

The No. 26-ranked Owls had to win three singles matches to tie the score heading into Nagireddy's match, as the No.25-ranked Tigers took the doubles portion of the day. Nagireddy navigated to a 6-3 victory in the first set against Emma Caldwell, but Caldwell charged back to a 7-5 win in the second. Despite trailing in the third set 4-3, Nagireddy went on to take the final set 7-5, giving Kenyon the 4-3 match win to advance to the third round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2023. 

Sewanee won two out of the three doubles matches to take the day's first points. Clare Hudson and Shadia Amado Aguad toppled their opponents in the No. 2 flight 6-1, but that would be the only Kenyon victory in doubles. The No. 1 pair of Eleni Lazaridou and Hana Nouaime fell 6-1, while in the No. 3 flight Ana Brand and Nagireddy dropped their match 6-3. 

Amado Aguad took care of business to get Kenyon on the board in singles, dispatching her No. 3 flight opponent in straight sets, 6-1 and 6-2 respectively. Just over a half hour later, Brand gave the Owls their first lead of the day, taking down the No. 2 flight 6-3, 6-2. 

The Tigers quickly tied the match back up at two after Nouaime fell in the No. 5 flight 6-3, 6-1, but a comeback victory from Lazaridou gave Kenyon the lead again. After dropping the first set in the opener 6-4, the junior charged back to 6-0, 6-1 victories to set the score 3-2. 

Nearly an hour later, the fourth flight finished up, as Hudson fell in a tightly contested bout 7(9)-6(7) in the first set and 6-3 in the second, tying the score at three and setting up for the remarkable finish by Nagireddy. 

With the win, Kenyon will take on No.9-ranked Washington University in St. Louis tomorrow, May 11 at 1:00 pm EST from St. Louis, Missouri with a spot in the quarterfinal round on the line.






 
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