Yale Athletics

This past weekend, the men’s and women’s tennis teams played two Ivy League foes, Dartmouth and Harvard. 

On Friday, the women celebrated their two seniors, Mirabelle Brettkelly ’25 and Jamie Kim ’25, with a win at home against the Big Green before traveling to Cambridge, where they lost to Harvard. Meanwhile, the men’s team traveled to Hanover on Friday and returned home to host the Crimson on Sunday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, losing both matchups.

In their match against Dartmouth, the women’s team made quick work of the Big Green en route to a senior day victory. 

In doubles, Erin Ha ’27 and Orly Ogilvy ’27 defeated Dartmouth’s Peyton Capuano and Michela Moore 6–3. Shyla Aggarwal ’27 and Kim clinched the doubles point when they took down Sam Grosjean and Brooke Hess 6–1.

On the singles side, Yale built on the momentum with three straight victories to secure the 4–0 team victory. 

Julia Werdiger ’28 defeated Lauren Han 6–1, 6–4, Brettkelly beat Elizabeth Fahrmeier 6–0, 6–4 and Angela Huang ’28 came out on top against Caroline Lemcke 6–3, 6–4. With the win, the Bulldogs also clinched a perfect home record for the year. 

Two days later, the Bulldogs traveled north to take on Harvard. After a strong showing against Dartmouth, Yale could not capitalize on their momentum. In doubles, Werdiger and Huang were the sole victors, and the Crimson took the point.

In singles, Werdiger was again the only Bulldog able to scratch out a victory. She completed a comeback to beat Kate Kim of Harvard, winning 1–6, 6–2, 6–1. All five other Bulldogs in action were unable to win their matches.

The women’s team finishes up the regular season next weekend when they travel first to Princeton on Saturday, April 19, and then to Penn the following day.

On the men’s side, from the start, nothing went the Bulldogs’ way, as the team continues to struggle without top dog Vignesh Gogineni ’26.

The Big Green won the first two doubles matches to claim the point. In singles, Jim Ji ’27 put a point on the board when he beat Carlos Guerrero Alvarez 6–3, 6–1. However, Dartmouth swept the remainder of the matches and beat Yale 4–1.

On Sunday, Yale returned home in hopes of bouncing back against Harvard. In doubles, Edward Liao ’28 and Eric Li ’26 beat Masato Perera and Valdemar Pape 6–4, but the Crimson won the next two matches to secure the point. In singles, Harvard swept every singles matchup to win the team match 4–0.

The men’s squad closes its regular season next weekend when the team will welcome both Princeton and Penn to the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center on April 19 and April 20, respectively.