Box Score Pasadena, Calif. - #26 Brandeis survives to defeat #21 ranked Caltech by a score of 5-4.
Team Records:
Brandeis University 2-2: #26 Ranked in Division III
Caltech 0-1: #21 Ranked in Division III
How it went down:
Doubles were all Brandeis. The tandem of
Cecilia Denis (Ardmore, PA) and Budhbhatti won Match #1 by a score of 8-3.
Mandy Reyes (Barcelona, Spain) and
Jiayi Zhang (Shanghai, China) won Match #2 by a score of 8-4. Lastly,
Rebecca Suarez (Huntington, N.Y.) and
Bhakti Parwani (Ahmedabad, India) secured the win for Brandeis with a resounding 8-4 win to end the fixture.
Singles started off against Brandeis favor after losing Match #6 in singles. However,
Chahana Budhbhatti (Ahmedabad, India) got Brandeis their first point in Match #3 with a stellar performance, winning by scores of 6-4 and 6-1.
Brandeis found themselves in a little bit of a hole after this, going down 3-1 in overall points after the first four singles matches. The comeback was secured in Match #5 by
Lika Bolkvadze (Tbilisi, Georgia). Bolkvadze won the first set 6-1 and then won the second set by a thrilling score of 7-6 to secure the win for the Judges.
Up next:
Brandeis travels to Claremont, Calif. to take on #1 ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Friday at 6 pm EST.
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