Whitman Women Battle Bravely

But, we did come out on the short end of a 5-4 decision today, which having a team of scholars I'm sure we will learn from.

The match began with played pretty solid doubles, but we just could not grab the momentum and lost 6-8 at 1 and 3. Then, in danger of going down 3-0 in the match, Hadley and Alyssa prevailed in a close tiebreak at 2.

With this momentum, Alyssa got us our only straight set win of the day over All-American Abby Olbrich at #1. Her maturity in this match against an extremely tough competitor was outstanding. Speaking of maturity, after dropping the second set, Div came out strong to win 6-3 in the 3rd to put us up 3-2. Elise and Hadley dropped their first sets but Hadley came back strong before losing a 3rd set 6-1 that was much closer than the score. Elise and Sallie Katter had an absolute battle, Sallie taking the first set tiebreak 7-5 and then she got up 2 breaks in the second before Elise earned one back, eventually losing in a very high quality match from both players.

So, we needed the final two matches and at #5 Linfield's Kiana Nip played very well to beat Em in straight sets. At 6, with the match decided, Kate's rythym went up and down but she ultimately focused and played great tennis at the end to win a match tie break 10-8.

It was wonderful to be outside on our home courts with friends and family watching and cheering and while we didn't manage the result, we played with passion and are excited to head to Portland next weekend for two more great matchups.

Our Woman of the Match was Alyssa, not just for winning both, but also for her outstanding attitude and ability to withstand hot streaks from her opponents in both singles and doubles.

Best regards,
John