BRYN MAWR, PA – The Bryn Mawr tennis team won their first two matches of the fall 2024 season earlier Saturday as they welcomed University of Scranton and Marywood University to campus for matches at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM respectively. The Owls won their morning match, 5-2 and their afternoon match, 7-0.

Division III tennis changed their scoring format to replicate Division I and II, in which seven team points are recorded instead of nine. The team that wins two of the three doubles matches receives one dual match point. Doubles matches are played to six games instead of an eight game pro-set. Each singles match is worth one point. Four or more points are required to win the dual match.
Highlights against Scranton:

• The Owls swept the Royals of Scranton in doubles with straight wins. Junior captain Sophie Fenster and senior doubles partner Fernanda Hurtado Mariscal returned to the courts this season with a 6-0 win. Lowrey West and Kelli Eng paired at No. 2 doubles for a 6-2 win while first-years Carina Roberts and Claire Emanuel collected their first collegiate win at No. 3 doubles, 6-3.
• At singles, four Owls tallied wins in straight sets. Captain Fenster refused to drop a single game in the first set at the top spot and won her match, 6-0, 6-2. Fellow junior Eng also recorded a win at No. 4 singles, 6-2, 6-2.
• First-years Emanuel and Roberts won their first singles collegiate matches at No. 5 and No. 6 with respective scores of 6-1, 6-3 and 6-2, 6-1.

Highlights against Marywood:

• Bryn Mawr kept the same doubles line up as their morning match, and again took home three wins against Marywood. Fenster and Hurtado Mariscal (6-0), West and Eng (6-2), and Roberts and Emanuel (6-1) each won their matches with finesse and grace.
• West played the No. 1 singles spot (6-4, 6-0) and was followed by fellow senior Hurtado Mariscal (6-4, 7-5).
• The first-years also won their matches to go undefeated in their first collegiate competitions as Owls. Emanuel won her match at No. 3 singles in a well deserved three set match (3-6, 6-1, 11-9). Fellow first-year Roberts won her match in straight sets (6-2, 6-2).
• Sophomore Xintong Han (6-0, 6-1) and junior Gioanna Zhao (6-2, 6-0) only let up a combined total of three games.

Bryn Mawr tennis will travel over the bridge on Friday, September 27^th to compete against Rutgers-Camden at 4:00 PM. Visit gobrynmawr.com for scores and follow @bmcathletics on social media to stay up to date with your favorite Bryn Mawr teams.