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ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2013 A pair of surging teams will meet on with a star on the line this weekend, as the Navy women’s tennis team (16-5, 2-1 PL) will host rival Army (20-4, 5-0 PL) at 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the 2026 Star Match at the Fluegel-Moore Tennis Stadium.
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\nPart of the 2025-26 Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA, Navy and Army both enter Saturday on hot streaks with the Black Knights riding a six-match winning streak and the Midshipmen winning 12 of their last 14 contests. The rivals also are among the top squads in the Patriot League, as Army leads the Patriot League standings with a 5-0 league mark while Navy is tied for third with a 2-1 league record, with both teams having two league matches remaining after Saturday’s tilt.
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\nArmy-Navy Star Series Update
\nDespite Army winning the baseball star last weekend, Navy has clinched the all-sport 2025-26 Star Series presented by USAA with a 13-6-1 lead \u2026 After Army took a 4-2-1 lead early in the fall, Navy ripped off nine-straight Star victories before the Black Knights took the wrestling star a day before the Navy basketball sweep \u2026 A trio of close games saw Army take the opener and finale of the three-game baseball star series \u2026 The remaining stars up for grabs are men’s and women’s outdoor track & field, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse and men’s tennis \u2026 Navy’s overall record against Army this season is 16-8-1.
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\nSeries History
\nArmy leads the all-time series by a 14-9 margin \u2026 The two teams are tied, 6-6, over the first 12 installments of the Star Match, with the inaugural regular season meeting between the programs coming in 2013 \u2026 Before Army’s Star win last season, Navy had claimed the previous three Star Matches \u2026 A 4-1 home win in 2022 was followed by 2023’s down-to-the-wire 4-3 victory at West Point, while 2024’s star meeting saw Kate Lee’s<\/a> singles victory finish off the Mids’ 4-2 comeback win in the first of two wins over the Black Knights in 2024 \u2026 Last spring had Army post a 4-1 home win despite Emily Tannenbaum<\/a> tallying a victory at No. 1 singles for the Mids.
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\nScouting the Mids
\nLeading the team with a 25-6 singles record is freshman Nicole Fu<\/a>, while sophomore Emma Gu<\/a> ranks second on the team with a 21-11 singles record and junior Olivia Fermo<\/a> holds a 20-7 singles mark \u2026 Fu and sophomore Grace Li<\/a> each have a team-high 12-4 singles record this spring \u2026 Fermo and Fu have partnered to post a team-leading 15-11 doubles record \u2026 Junior Anna Jordaan<\/a> and sophomore Peyton Amspacher-Philemon<\/a> have notched a 10-3 doubles mark together, including a 7-1 record as the No. 2 pairing \u2026 Overall, Amspacher-Philemon has a team-best 17 doubles wins.
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\nStreaks A’Plenty
\nBefore being snapped last Saturday at Boston U., Navy’s 11-match winning streak from Feb. 15 to March 25 marked the fourth longest in program history and the best run since another 11-match win streak from Feb. 8 to March 8, 2020 \u2026 While also snapped in Boston, sophomore Peyton Amspacher-Philemon’s<\/a> 13-match singles winning streak tied her for the second-longest singles win streak in program history and becoming the fourth Navy player all-time to post a 13-match singles win streak \u2026 Fellow sophomore Grace Li<\/a> has a career-best 10-match singles win streak after wins against Delaware and BU, marking the second time this season she has won at least eight-straight singles contests.
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\nNews & Notes
\nNavy has tallied an 14-1 home record this spring, including winning its last 10 home matches \u2026 Navy has had 30 different doubles pairings this season \u2026 Nicole Fu<\/a> is 11-0 at home this spring in singles play, while Peyton Amspacher-Philemon<\/a> is also undefeated at home with a 9-0 singles mark \u2026 Amspacher-Philemon and Anna Jordaan<\/a> are 8-1 in home doubles action this spring.
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\nLast Time Out
\nIn its lone Patriot League road match of the season, Navy had its 11-match winning streak snapped last Saturday when it fell to Boston University, 4-3, at the Winchester Indoor Tennis Club \u2026 The Terriers clinched the overall victory by securing the doubles point and quickly winning three singles flights to build a clinching 4-0 edge before the Mids rallied to take the final three matches on the court, with Grace Li<\/a>, Jina Cha<\/a> and Nicole Fu<\/a> all taking their matches via 10-game pro sets.
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\nScouting Army
\nWinners in eight of their last nine, the Black Knights enter Saturday on a six-match win streak that includes three-straight Patriot League victories \u2026 After starting league play with wins over Bucknell and Colgate and losing a 4-1 decision against Delaware, Army rattled off victories Hofstra, Fordham and New Haven before returning to league action by beating Loyola on March 15 and then pulling out the March 21 doubleheader sweep of Lafayette and Holy Cross \u2026 Army has had a pair of Patriot League Players of the Week this spring, with Madison Smith winning the award on March 10 and Emma Sy claiming it on Feb. 3 \u2026 The fall slate saw Isabella Brilliant and Smith win the Patriot League ITA Masters Qualifier Doubles Championship, eventually falling in the ITA Conference Masters’ round-of-16 to Virginia’s top-seeded pairing of Melodie Collard and Vivian Yang \u2026 Falling to Boston in last year’s PL championship match, the Black Knights bring back a pair of 2025 all-league selections in Second-Teamers Vennmukiil Mathivanan and Sy.
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\nUp Next
\nNavy will host Loyola on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.
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