Mississippi State Wraps Fall Tennis With Wins at Two Tournaments

Mississippi State finished its fall tournament schedule with competition at the June Stewart Invitational in Nashville, Tennessee, and the ITA South Sectional Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee.

At the invitational, Athina Pitta won all three of her singles matches. She beat Missouri’s Evelyn Whiteside 6-2, 7-5 on Friday, Belmont’s Savannah Webster 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday and Western Kentucky’s Emily Meng 6-3, 6-1 on Sunday.

Mia Robinson and Pitta teamed for three doubles victories, opening with a 7-5 win over Missouri’s Alex Ackman and Mariana Higuita Barraza. They later beat Western Kentucky’s Madison Hill and Emily Meng 6-2, then Rice’s Divna Ratkovic and Ema Mravcova 6-3.

Lauren Seye also won a singles match Friday, beating Missouri’s Danielle Chapman 6-3, 6-4. Seye and Sarah Rokusek added doubles wins over Missouri’s Chapman and Whiteside, 7-6(4), and Vanderbilt’s Trinetra Vijayakumar and Nicole Weng, 6-4. Robinson defeated Ackman 6-2, 6-0 as Mississippi State won all three of its scheduled singles matches against Missouri on Friday.

Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz, Chiara Di Genova and Gianna Oboniye represented the Bulldogs at the ITA South Sectional. Kempenaers-Pocz and Di Genova won the first set of their doubles match against Indiana’s Hi’ilani Williams and Elisabeth Dunac, 7-6, but lost the next set 6-2 and the match tiebreaker 10-4. Di Genova fell to Georgia’s No. 113 Ranah Stoiber 6-3, 6-2 in singles. Di Genova and Oboniye also played in the consolation draw.

The tournaments marked the end of Mississippi State’s scheduled fall competition. The team will turn its focus to the spring dual-match season.

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