CHARLOTTE, NC \u2013 North Carolina A&T women’s tennis earned a significant victory Thursday in their pursuit of a record-breaking season.<\/p>\n
The Aggies improved to 7-4 overall after beating Queens University of Charlotte 7-0 at Howard Levine Tennis Center. The Aggies finished 9-8 during the 2023 season for the program’s first-ever winning season. Also that season, the women’s tennis program won a postseason match for the first time, beating Hampton in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Women’s Championship Tournament.
\nA&T has four scheduled matches remaining in the 2026 season, putting the Aggies in position for another winning season. A&T set the table early against the Royals by winning two of the three doubles matches on Thursday to capture the doubles point and take a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The day started with a win at No. 3 doubles for the Aggies. Juniors Randy Rakotoarilala<\/a> and Tabeth Tadoum<\/a> teamed to defeat Mathilde Bris and Rachel Bryne 6-0. A&T claimed the doubles point thanks to the No. 2 doubles team of sophomores Flavia Villegas<\/a> and Juana Gomez Weiss<\/a>, who defeated the Royals duo of Jett Coetzee and Daniela Tomala 6-0.<\/p>\n Queens claimed a win at No. 1 doubles as Zoe Cvitanovic and Lucy Hogan defeated A&T sophomore Dorsa Cheraghi<\/a> and senior Hana El Sherif<\/a> 6-0. The match moved to singles play, where Villegas claimed her second win on the day by defeating Kalia Angeles in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0 at No. 6 singles. Cheraghi recovered from her loss in doubles to win at No. 5 singles over Byrne, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n Rakotoarilala secured a win at No. 2 singles to give the Aggies the win they needed to clinch. She defeated Cvitanovic 6-0, 6-3. The win improves Rakotoarilala to 6-4 on the season. Gomez Weiss is now an impressive 7-3 on the year after she won at No. 3 singles over Bris, 7-5, 6-3. A&T showed resilience to claim the final two wins of the afternoon.<\/p>\n El Sherif improved to 5-6 as the Aggies No. 1 singles player with a win over Hogan. El Sherif lost the first set 6-4 before evening things in the second with a 6-3 win. In the third set, El Sherfi gave the Aggies a 6-0 lead with a 10-6 win. Tadoum completed the shutout with a 6-2, 7-6 win thanks to a 10-8 win in the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n The Aggies look to extend their historic run Saturday at 1 p.m. at Winston-Salem State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, NC \u2013 North Carolina A&T women’s tennis earned a significant victory Thursday in their pursuit of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-184731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}