Women's Tennis Opens Season With Disappointing Losses

The snow is falling, the weather is cold and tennis season has just begun. The Fordham women’s tennis team opened its season this past weekend with a trip to northern New York for a weekend jamboree where it suffered losses to Stony Brook, Vassar and Army, garnering only one match win throughout the weekend.

The Lady Rams started their weekend against Vassar on Friday at West Point, N.Y. The Lady Rams started out the day with doubles matches, dropping all three. The closest match came from the senior/sophomore combination of Martina Featherston and Sarah Termaine, who lost 8-5.

The Lady Rams moved into singles play hoping to bounce back, but unfortunately could not find their stroke. 

Fordham’s top two singles players, Featherston and Tremaine, remained competitive, while the other four singles lost in straight sets to an overpowering Stony Brook team.

On Saturday, the Lady Rams traveled to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to take on Vassar, and showed much improvement from their Friday match, but still lost 8-1. The doubles teams dropped their matches, as the players have just begun to find chemistry with each other on the court. The singles games, on the other hand, showed drastic improvement while playing some close matches. Fordham also got its first win of the season when sophomore Bethany Boyle won in a three-set squeaker. Unfortunately for the Lady Rams, this ended up being their only win of the weekend.

Army was the next opponent, and the result mimicked that of Saturday as the Lady Rams fell 7-1. Still getting used to playing with each other, the doubles teams picked up their first win of the season as the No. 2 team of sophomore Bethany Boyle and freshman Taylor Holt upended Army by a score of 8-1. 

On the singles side, Fordham struggled again and was unable to win a single match against the overpowering women of Army. The closest result came from Holt, who had already won once already, as she took the Black Knights’s No. 4 singles player to a tiebreaker, losing 10-3.

While it was not the way the Fordham women wanted to start their season, many matches remain, and the Lady Rams are hungry for victories.

The Lady Rams travel to Hamden, Conn. this weekend looking for their first win of the season at the Quinnipiac Invitational.