Over the past few weeks, athletes from both the men and women's varsity tennis teams participated in the International Tennis Association (ITA) Southeast Regional Championship as a part of the fall tennis season. Both the men and women's squads fared very well at the event these past two weekends.
Senior David Maldow, the number one seed, made it to the championship match on Sunday, losing to Hayden White of Washington & Lee University 6-2, 6-2. To reach the final, Maldow bested Christopher Newport University's Eric Shulman 6-2, 6-2, the second year in a row that Maldow bested Shulman in the ITA semi-finals.
Hopkins men's tennis was also represented in the doubles championship draw. Junior Casey Blythe and sophomore Jacob Barnaby were paired together, but fell in the semi-finals.
Other notable performances for the men's side included sophomore Warren Elgort and freshman Andy Hersh, who made it to the quarterfinals of the championship doubles draw. Freshman Will Grist, playing singles, made it to the round of sixteen before losing to eventual champion Shulman.
The women's team also fared well at the ITA Southeast Regional two weekends ago.
Freshman Nandita Krishnan and sophomore Carolyn Warren were seeded third in doubles but managed to reach the finals against Carnegie Mellon's Laura Chen and Ashley Herrick. But the Jays duo fell two sets to one 6-2, 4-6, 10-8.
Warren also fell in the singles semifinals to Chen in straight sets, her only loss of the fall. season, finishing with a 10-1 record.
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