Things are certainly looking up for the Whitman netters. The ITA Regional tournament wrapped up with 4 Whitman singles players in the semi's and 2 Whitman doubles teams in the finals.
Both the singles semi-finals were amazing battles that lasted well over three hours. In semi #1 Freshman Chris Bailey defeated Sophomore Jake Cappel 6-4 in the 3rd set. And in semi #2 Sophomore Matt Solomon defeated Freshman Etienne Moshevich 7-5 in the 3rd. In the singles finals Matt defeated Chris 7-5, 6-2. The doubles final was another incredibly close match with Matt/Etienne narrowly defeating Jake/Nadeem 9-8.
Obviously this was a special weekend for Whitman tennis as we placed 12 players into the final 16, 7 players into the final 8 and 4 players into the semi's. In fact, in the singles draw only one person lost to a non Whitman player! This is an amazing accomplishment since the NWC conference is much stronger than in previous years.
Matt (singles) and Matt/Etienne (doubles) will now represent the PNW region at the ITA Small College championship Oct 10-14 in Mobile, AL.
Here is a link to some pictures from the weekend.
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