ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 For the first time in program history, Vanderbilt women\u2019s tennis will compete for an NCAA Doubles Championship title after graduate C\u00e9lia-Belle Mohr and sophomore Sophia Webster notched their 12th straight win on Saturday at the USTA National Campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cCB and Soph were outstanding in every facet of the game today: serving, returning, defense, movement and aggression,\u201d head coach Aleke Tsoubanos said. \u201cIt was a clean match from start to finish. They had fantastic energy and cohesion between them. We\u2019ve talked about what they look and sound like when they are playing their best doubles; that was on full display today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohr and Webster faced No. 27 Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum of Oklahoma on Court 1. Four of the first five games to begin the match went to deciding points; the Dores took three of the five. The Sooners evened the set score at 3-3 with their service game. Webster regained the lead for Vandy behind a flawless service game, and the Dores closed out the final two games of the set to seal the first frame 6-3.<\/p>\n
After a 3-0 start to the second set, Oklahoma generated their second break of the match to get on the board and closed the deficit to 3-2 moments later. With the momentum beginning to shift, Mohr and Webster did what they have done all tournament long: find ways to win. The pair finished off the final three games to claim the second set 6-2 and secure a berth into the doubles final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the second set there was a little momentum switch from 3-0 to 3-2, but they grabbed it right back with a huge service game from C\u00e9lia to go up 4-2,\u201d Tsoubanos said. \u201cFrom there, it was a gritty break and another excellent service game from Sophia to close it out. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of them to be playing for an NCAA championship on Sunday and the opportunity ahead for them both.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohr and Webster look to add to an exclusive list of individual NCAA champions at Vanderbilt. Across school history, there are just five individual NCAA championship titles: Mary Lou Baldwin in 1982, Vanderbilt swimming\u2019s 400 medley relay team in 1982, Ryan Tolbert in 1997, Gordon Sargent in 2022 and Veronica Fraley in 2024.<\/p>\n
The NCAA Doubles Championship final is set for tomorrow at not before 11:30 a.m. with the Dores matching up against No. 10 Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe of NC State. The NCAA tournament page is available online<\/a> with live stats available here<\/a>. The championship match will be streamed on ESPN+, and main coverage will be provided by Cracked Racquets.<\/p>\n For more information, updates and exclusive content, follow the Vanderbilt women\u2019s tennis team, @VandyWTennis, on Instagram and X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 For the first time in program history, Vanderbilt women\u2019s tennis will compete for an NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,28802,28805,28804,28803,28806,43,28814,82,593,28811,5927,28812,28813,28807,5853,28800,28801,28810,28809,28808,43755],"class_list":["post-300947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-commodores","tag-commodores-baseball","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-commodores-football","tag-commodores-soccer","tag-headlines","tag-sport-category-featured-category","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-vanderbilt-athletics","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","tag-vanderbilt-stadium","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","tag-vuc","tag-vuc-baseball","tag-vuc-basketball","tag-vuc-football","tag-women-s-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300947","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=300947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}