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WTEN She Hamilton 4.19.25

3 Mammoths advance to Round of 16 in singles at M.I.T. Invitational

9/12/2025 11:14:00 PM

CAMBRIDGE, MA – On Friday, the Amherst College women's tennis started their 2025-2026 season at MIT, at their yearly invitational tournament. Last season, the Mammoths reached the Round of 16 of the NCAA tournament and ended up being ranked 12th in the year-end rankings with a 13-8 record. The Mammoths are looking to start their fall season on a strong note.

Fall tournaments, such as the MIT Invitational, are individual so the matches are not played in a dual-match format like they are in the spring. At the MIT Invitational, there are draws for both singles and doubles.. 

RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS:
  • 3 Mammoths advanced to the Round of 16 in the Singles draw. Sophomore, Tina She, who had a strong season last year with a 14-7 record in the spring dual matches in the 3,4, and 5 spots, got a convincing 6-4, 6-3 win over Bowdoin's Zoe Sun. Tomorrow morning, she will face another Bowdoin player, Suzanne Pogorelec.
  • Senior, Sophie Diop, the 2023 NESCA Rookie of the Year from Boston likewise started her singles tournament with a convincing win. She faced Tufts's Nicole Kintiroglou and prevailed with a straights-set victory with the score of 6-4, 6-0. Tomorrow morning, she will face MIT's senior, Artemis Pados.
  • The third Mammoth to make the Round of 16 in the singles draw was the first-year, Sameera Talwar. The Jakarta native gave the Mammoths another straight-set win in the singles main draw with her 6-4, 6-1 victory over MIT's Katie Driscoll. She is facing Tufts's Melanie Woodbury, the third seed of the singles draw, in tomorrow morning's Round of 16 battle.
  • In the doubles draw, Diop and Swire, the senior duo, received a retirement in the Round of 16 from Tufts's team of Li and Bindas. In the quarterfinals, they will face the third seed team of Hung and Stuhlfaut from Bowdoin College. Amherst's Dobiecka and She gathered two convincing wins in the opening rounds of the doubles draw. In their first match, they eased MIT's Gandra and Liu. They continued their winning ways in the Round of 16 with a 8-4 victory over the four-seed duo of Mitchell and Hu from Tufts. In the quarterfinals, Dobiecka and She will face MIT's Samets and Deshpande. 
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