BROOKE ATKINS
Staff Writer
Starting off its long weekend of games, women’s tennis played its first match Thursday night against D’Youville by claiming victory and lifting Fredonia to the .500 mark of this season. Five Fredonia singles players and four doubles players brought the score to 7-2.
“Our team is like a family, everyone is super supportive of one another and we are always willing to help each other improve our game,” said junior Halee Dickinson. “Although tennis is both an individual and team sport, we need all the girls to earn points so at the end of the day we win and lose as a team.”
After a shortened match and a win of 5-1 over Pitt-Bradford on Friday, women’s tennis came out strong with another undefeated match on Saturday. With a 5-4 victory over Medaille, Fredonia won four of the six single matches and one doubles match.
Phoebe Langdon, a single and doubles winner all weekend, believes the team started out their season playing against really strong teams.
“Watching the matches and seeing the team play, I couldn’t be happier because even when we lose I still see improvements every day and every match,” said Langdon.“The Fredonia tennis program in general is improving and it’s obvious when you look at how we have developed over the past three years.”
With positive attitudes from upperclassmen on the team, the program is bound to go up.
“My favorite thing about my team is definitely our humor. We all joke with each other so much, it makes everything a lot more fun and relaxed,” said freshman Olivia Miller.
After going three for three this weekend, the Blue Devils now have a 6-4 standing in SUNYACS.
` “We have a lot of talent and I am excited to see how we finish out the season,” said Langdon.
Women’s tennis closes out their regular season on Tuesday at home vs Alfred University at 4 p.m. After that the team will be heading to the SUNYAC tournament next Friday afternoon, where it will play New Paltz.