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Posted: May 15, 2021

Tartan Women Advance to NCAA Women’s Tennis Third Round

Women?s tennis player wearing red tank top and black skirt about to serve
Box Score
Team Stats
Doubles
Lindy Cornwall / Bin Zheng (CMUW)
def. Stefanie Wilske / Elisa Mariotti (NCWC)
8-7 (7-4)
Giulia Zanetti / Talitha Rowan (NCWC)
def. Alex Iordache / Ola Wojciak (CMUW)
8-5
Megan Qiang / Farida Abdelmoneum (CMUW)
def. Chandler Brice / Julie Schoorsmans (NCWC)
8-0
Singles
Stefanie Wilske (NCWC)
def. Bin Zheng (CMUW)
FINAL - UNFINISHED
Giulia Zanetti (NCWC)
def. Farida Abdelmoneum (CMUW)
FINAL - UNFINISHED
Elisa Mariotti (NCWC)
def. Ola Wojciak (CMUW)
FINAL - UNFINISHED
Megan Qiang (CMUW)
def. Julie Schoorsmans (NCWC)
6-1, 6-3
Alex Iordache (CMUW)
def. Talitha Rowan (NCWC)
6-0, 6-3
Abigail Khieu (CMUW)
def. Chandler Brice (NCWC)
6-0, 6-0

(ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.) - The Carnegie Mellon University women's tennis team topped host North Carolina Wesleyan College, 5-1, in the second round of the 2021 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championship on Saturday, May 15. The Tartans are now 13-2 for the season while the Bishops finish at 10-7.

The Tartans held a 2-1 advantage after doubles play with the third pair of freshman Farida Abdelmoneum (Portland, Ore. / K12 International Academy) and sophomore Megan Qiang (Cleveland, Ohio / Hathaway Brown School) winning 8-0 and the number one pair of junior Lindy Cornwall (Poway, Calif. / Poway) and sophomore Bin Zheng (Miami, Fla. / Doral Academy) winning 8-7 (7-4). The win for Abdelmoneum and Qiang was the ninth of the season for the pair while Cornwall and Zheng have a record of 10-3.

In singles play, the Tartans led a set in all six matches before winning at the sixth, fifth, and fourth positions to take the match victory.

Freshman Abigail Khieu (Potomac, Md. / Walt Whitman) won 6-0, 6-0 in the sixth position for her third win of the season and a 3-1 Tartan lead. Senior Alex Iordache (Princeton, N.J. / South Brunswick) finished her fifth singles match with a 6-0, 6-3 win while Qiang won 6-1, 6-3 at fourth singles. 

The Tartans advance to the third round for the 12th time in school history and will face a familiar opponent in the University of Mary Washington on Sunday, May 16 at 12:00 p.m. at North Carolina Wesleyan University.