The three-day Middlebury Invitational Women's Tennis Tournament featured a quartet of teams that played a form of hidden duals from Friday through Sunday. Action took place outside on the Proctor Tennis Courts as well as inside the Nelson Recreational Center. Teams competing in the invitational were Middlebury, Brandeis, Case Western Reserve and Williams. The invitational concluded the fall portion of the season for Middlebury.
The format for the invitational saw teams playing a dual in either singles or doubles against each other, as between four to six singles as well as three doubles matches were contested. The singles were played in the best two-of-three format with a tiebreaker set in the third and doubles was one pro-set.
Middlebury competed in doubles matches on Friday evening against Case Western Reserve. The duo of Katherine Hughes and Skylar Schossberger edged the Spartan tandem of Nithya Kanagasegar and Madeleine Paolucci, 8-6.
On Saturday in doubles against Brandeis, Hughes and Schossberger defeated Sabrina Ross Neergaard and Keren Khromchenko (8-3), while Catherine Blazye and Molly Paradies won by an 8-5 score against Michele Lehat and Lauren Bertsch. The team of Ann Martin Skelly and Emily Bian rounded out the results with an 8-4 decision over Nina Cepeda and Rachel Zubrinsky.
During singles versus Williams, Heather Boehm claimed a 6-4, 6-1 win over Leah Bush, while Schossberger earned a 6-3, 7-5 decision against Sasha Cayward.
Later in the day against Brandeis, the Panthers posted victories in all five matches. Boehm cruised over Ross Neergaard (6-1, 6-4), while Hughes needed three sets to get past Khromchenko (7-6 (5), 5-7, 10-2). Schossberger eased past Lehat (6-0, 6-3), Paradies defeated Bertsch (6-1, 6-0) and Bian bested Zubrinsky (6-3, 6-0).
Middlebury competed against Williams in doubles and Case Western Reserve in Sunday's play. The tandems of Hughes and Schossberger picked up an 8-5 victory over Chloe Henderson and Rachel Cross, while Boehm and Paradies won 9-8 (6) against Bush and Emily Zheng.
In singles against the Spartans, Hughes knocked off Kanagasegar in straight sets (6-2, 7-5), while Boehm improved to 3-0 on the weekend with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Paolucci. Paradies earned her second win of the weekend against Nina Cepeda (6-0, 6-3), while Bian followed suit with a 7-5, 2-6, 10-6 triumph over Peyton Young.
