{"id":193170,"date":"2025-10-06T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:41:10","slug":"womens-tennis-battles-tough-field-at-penns-cissie-leary-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193170\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Tennis Battles Tough Field at Penn&#8217;s Cissie Leary Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ITA_New_Logo_F8Sgm.png\" alt=\"ITA Regionals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>vs. ITA Regionals<\/p>\n<p>10\/9\/2025 | All Day<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Oct. 09 (Thu) \/ All Day&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ITA_New_Logo_F8Sgm.png\" alt=\"ITA Regionals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0ITA Regionals&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/opponent-history\/ita-regionals\/4673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"258\" data-start=\"0\">PHILADELPHIA, Pa.\u00a0&#8212; The Cornell women&#8217;s tennis team put together a strong showing at Penn&#8217;s Cissie Leary Invitational over the weekend, notching 10 singles and four doubles victories against a competitive field at the Hamlin and Hecht Tennis Centers.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Red opened the tournament with a dominant performance against Saint Joseph&#8217;s, winning six of eight first-round singles matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/michelle-ryndin\/79847\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79847\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Ryndin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sage-loudon\/79844\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79844\" target=\"_blank\">Sage Loudon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/victoria-zhao\/79848\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79848\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Zhao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/dylan-gelber\/80937\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"80937\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Gelber<\/a>, Andrea Martinez de Los Rios and <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/martina-marica\/79845\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79845\" target=\"_blank\">Martina Marica<\/a> each posted straight-set wins, combining to drop just 10 games across all six victories.<\/p>\n<p>In second-round action, Gelber and <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tanya-fan\/79842\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79842\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Fan<\/a> picked up solid wins over Temple and Maryland, respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellbigred.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/emma-baker\/79841\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"79841\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Baker<\/a> battled through a tight three-set tiebreak to win 4-6, 7-5, 14-12 over Temple&#8217;s Tianni Zhou. Despite several three-set efforts, Cornell dropped four of its seven matches in round two, including narrow defeats for Martinez de Los Rios and Loudon.<\/p>\n<p>The final round proved more challenging, as the Big Red faced off against William &amp; Mary. Martinez de Los Rios was the lone Cornell player to come away with a win, rallying from a set down to defeat Rebeka Svabikova 1-6, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell&#8217;s doubles tandems got off to a fast start on Day 1, with the pair of Ryndin and Zhao defeating Penn&#8217;s Stojanovski and Saw, 8-2. Loudon and Baker edged another Penn duo in a tight 8-7 match, while Gelber and Marica secured an 8-7 win over Saint Joseph&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Loudon and Baker stayed hot in round two, blanking Maryland&#8217;s Challa and Donnelly, 8-0, but William &amp; Mary swept Cornell&#8217;s doubles teams on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Red will send a roster of players for the ITA Regional Championships beginning on Thursday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: vs. ITA Regionals 10\/9\/2025 | All Day &#13; Oct. 09 (Thu) \/ All&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-193170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}