Vanderbilt women’s tennis team defeated Midstate Middle Tennessee State University 7-0. Now Commodores will travel to Oxford, Mississippi, to take on Ole Miss on Friday As reported by the Vandebilt University website, Amy Stevens and Holly Staff brought the Dores within one run to clinch the doubles point.
Celia-Belle Mohr and Marcella Cruz strengthened the team lead by one with their win on court 1. In singles, the Dores dominated. Bridget Stammel got there before her with her 6-0, 6-1 3-court win. Shortly thereafter, Mohr finished on 1-court, defeating MTSU’s Love-Star Alexis 6-1, 6-0.
Dasha Kourkina won the match for Vandy on court 6. Commodores wrapped up the rest of the singles matches with wins by Staff, Cruz and Stevens.
Women’s singles
Mohr (Vandy) def. Alexis 6-1, 6-0
Staff (Vandy) def. Sana Garakani 6-0, 7-5
Stammel (Vandy) def.
Muskan Gupta 6-0, 6-1
Stevens (Vandy) def. Lilly-Sophie Schmidt 6-4, 7-5
Cruz (Vandy) def. Noelle Mauro 6-3, 6-4
Kourkina (Vandy) def. Karen Yibirin 6-0, 6-1
Women’s Doubles
Mohr/Cruz (Vandy) def. Alexis/Gupta 6-3
Stammel/Anessa Lee (Vandy) vs.
Schmidt/Mauro 5-4, unfinished
Staff/Stevens (Vandy) def. Yibirin/Camila Barragan 6-1
About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1873 by Cornelius Vanderbilt with a donation of one million dollars.
It hosts around 13,000 students. Vanderbilt spent $738 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 31st in the nation. In 2013, Vanderbilt University was ranked ninth in the country in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Vanderbilt is ranked the 116th best university in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 33rd in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Vanderbilt as the 62nd-best university in the world.
Additionally the ARWU Field rankings in 2015 placed Vanderbilt as 18th best in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 21st in Social Sciences. Vanderbilt is a founding and charter member of the Southeastern Conference and for a half-century has been the conference’s only private school.
The university fields six men’s and ten women’s intercollegiate teams and has won five NCAA championships. Photo credits: Vanderbilt University website
