1st Place Finish at William & Mary Invitational!

Post date: Oct 22, 2012 3:30:26 AM

This past weekend, Maryland Club Tennis competed at the William & Mary Invitational in Williamsburg, Virginia. On Saturday, the team consisting of Subodh Arora, Kisah Chin, Brian Huber, Tiffany Lin, and Linda Quach led the Terps into the Gold Bracket with wins over William & Mary C and UNC Wilmington, and a loss to UVA.

On Sunday, Maryland Club Tennis started out with a win over James Madison University sending them into the semifinals to take on their hosts, William & Mary A. The Terps started off with losses in both men and women’s doubles, but rallied in singles where Subodh pulled a 6-0 win in singles and Linda pulled through with a tiebreak win in singles, leaving the Terps up by 4 games heading into mixed. Subodh and Tiffany secured the victory with a 6-4 win in mixed doubles sending the Terps into the Championship Final.

MVPs of the weekend!

After losing to UVA on the first day of play at the William & Mary Invitational, Maryland once again faced off with their rivals in the finals for the third time this season. Starting off with men's doubles, Brian and Kisah racked up a much needed 3 games, involving an ace by Brian, and numerous smashes by Kisah. Although they lost 6-3, the women's doubles team of Tiffany and Linda evened the overall score with a 6-3 win. The score hardly changed through the singles matches - entering the mixed doubles set that would decide the championship, the Terps were down by just 1 game. UVA had the upper hand early with a 3-1 and then 5-3 lead. But the Terps would not concede defeat. Subodh and Tiffany fought back to tie the score at 5-5 saving a match point along the way and won the 5pt. breaker to take the match into a sudden death super tiebreak. It was a fierce battle to the end, but Subodh and Tiffany pulled through winning the tiebreak 7-5 to secure the Terps' first place finish at the invitational and first win over UVA in over 4 years!

Captain Linda signing off on the victory! #boss

Maryland Club Tennis will be back in action on Nov. 3-4 at the University of Virginia Invitational. Sign-up HERE! Go Terps!