Men's and women's tennis each win two, lose one over the weekend

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Emma Mazurek
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Junior Maddie Lee warms up before heading into her final match against Wooster. The Tigers swept the Fighting Scots 9-0 on Saturday after defeating Centre College 7-2. TILLY MARLATT / THE DEPAUW

Both the men’s and momen’s tennis teams won two matches and lost one this past weekend.

The men’s tennis team lost to University of Indianapolis 0-9 on Friday.

“We’re impressed with the teams that beat us," said Scott Riggle, head coach for both the men's and women's tennis teams. “Everyone gave a great effort and improved a lot."

And they certainly did improve. On Saturday, the Tigers flipped that 0-9 score right on its head, beating both Wooster and Centre 9-0.

“On Friday we started off with a tough match, and they’re a strong team and we got off to a slow start, but we fought really well in all matches,” first-year Gregory Frauenheim said. “On Saturday we really started to step it up."

During the match against Centre, the men’s team won all six single matches and lost nine games in three doubles matches. In the match against Wooster, DePauw again won all six singles and lost only eight games in doubles.

“We have a lot of tough matches ahead of us and we are really working hard to prepare,” Frauenheim said.

Centre won the first two singles of the women's match on Saturday, but the DePauw women came back to win the next four singles and all of the doubles, beating Centre 7-2. Feeding off of that momentum, the women went on to beat Wooster 9-0.
 
Despite the 1-8 loss to Washington University in St. Louis the following day, junior Gretchen Wilder thinks the team played well and is looking forward to learning from mistakes made at the match.
 
 

“The team came out strong and although we lost, we took a lot from the match and improved on things from Saturday,” Wilder wrote in an email, “We juggled a variety of different opponents and all really focused on what we have been working on and bringing our best game to the court. ...We are excited to learn from our negatives this weekend as a team as we move onto indoor nationals this weekend."

“Both teams played their best tennis by the end” Riggle said. He added that Wilder and first-year Megan Galle were star players on the girls' end this weekend, while junior Daniel Rodefeld stood out on the men's side, winning both his sets in tiebreakers.
 
The women’s team will play Carnegie Mellon this Friday at 3:30 p.m. at the Blackstock Courts, while the men will play Earlham on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the same location.