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Women's Tennis Handles Pomona-Pitzer; Advances to ITA National Indoor Championship Match

Women's Tennis Handles Pomona-Pitzer; Advances to ITA National Indoor Championship Match

The Emory University women's tennis team is headed back to the ITA National Indoor Championships title match for the fourth consecutive season after handling Pomona-Pitzer, 8-1, in the semifinal round.

The Eagles advance to take on top-seeded Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in Sunday's championship in a rematch of last's year title match. Action is slated to begin at 12:00 PM EST from the Top Seed Tennis Club in Nicholasville, KY and can be followed using live results and video which can be found on the championship website: https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/events/d3-womens-indoors/.

For the second straight match, Emory opened play with a sweep of the doubles matches to jump out in front early. At first doubles, junior Stephanie Taylor and sophomore Christina Watson claimed an 8-3 win while junior Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico and sophomore Jessica Fatemi doubled up their opponents, 8-4, on court two. The match at the third position needed a tiebreaker to decide a winner with freshman Alexa Goetz and Katelyn Thomas edging out the win 8-7 (7-0).

Five of the six singles matches went the way of the Eagles with four coming in straight sets. Emory saw straight set wins from sophomore Emma Cartledge (6-1, 6-2) and Thomas (6-3, 6-1) at the fourth and sixth spots to help the Eagles earn the two wins needed to clinch the win.

Gonzalez-Rico added a straight set win at first singles 6-3, 6-2 as did Fatemi on court five, 6-4, 6-1. Watson rounded out the singles winners for the Eagles, earning the 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-1) victory on court three.

Emory will take a 4-1 spring record into Sunday's title match while CMS is 9-0 overall and defeated Carnegie Mellon, 9-0, in the ITA semifinals Saturday afternoon.