After splitting last weekend with a win against Stony Brook and a loss against Rutgers, the UConn women’s tennis team hoped to notch two wins against Big East foes DePaul and Butler on the road this weekend.
Unfortunately for the team, those hopes of a sweep were squashed against DePaul on Friday in Chicago, IL.
Starting with the singles competition, junior Olivia Wright was defeated by Eleanor Nobbs from DePaul, 10-2. It was a slow decline from that point, as DePaul notched six consecutive singles points.
The Huskies did put up a fight in the doubles competition, though. After being awarded Big East doubles team of the week, Wright and her partner Maria Constantinou put up a good rally but lost 6-4. After that, doubles partners Caroline Hinshaw and Isabel Petri Bere also lost their match 6-4, giving the Blue Demons the doubles point.
After the doubles competition, the Blue Demons secured their shutout of the Huskies, 7-0.
As Connecticut faced the Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, they hoped to flip the script and bring a win back home to Storrs, CT.
Lucky enough for Husky fans, that’s exactly what the team did, and it was quite the win.
Starting with the singles competition, Wright notched the first point after defeating Butler’s Natalie Boesing, 6-2, 6-0. After that, Constantinou was defeated by Butler’s Delaney Schurhamer, 6-0, 6-3 in second singles. Then, the Huskies were able to notch three more singles wins, taking the four singles points.
Even though Butler took the three doubles points, it still didn’t match up to UConn’s strong and consistent performance in their singles play. The Huskies finished the match 4-3.
With the weekend ending with a win and loss, they split the weekend in terms of consistency in their singles and doubles play. In the match against the Blue Demons, they proved to have strong doubles play, and in the match against the Bulldogs, they had excellent singles play.
As the Huskies look to be the team atop the Big East, they need to combine these efforts in future matches to as they will face stronger and stronger opponents as the season progresses.
Next up, the Huskies will return home for a match against the Sacred Heart Pioneers. The first serve is set for 1 p.m. at Magic Lincer Tennis Academy in Manchester, Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 29.