When and Where: October 22, 2023 – Oceanside, N.Y. (Point Set Racquet Club)
Score: Adelphi University 4, Southern New Hampshire University 2
Records: SNHU 9-2, Adelphi 11-1
Sophomore Alina Kupfer (Baldham, Germany) staked the second-seeded Southern New Hampshire University women's tennis team to a 2-0 lead in the NE10 Championship final with a win at No. 1 singles, but top-seeded Adelphi University rallied for a 4-2 victory at the Point Set Racquet Club on Sunday.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Kupfer was a 6-3, 6-3 winner at No. 1 singles against Sanne Selmer Gilje. She and graduate student Verena Weindl (Munich, Germany) also clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 triumph over Katarina Liedbeck and Roisin Boyd at No. 1 doubles.
- Senior Eleonora Guglielmetti (Novara, Italy) and freshman Dajana Abadzic (Weinstadt, Germany) posted a 6-2 win at No. 2 doubles over Selmer Gilje and Caterina Federici.
NOTES
- Abadzic fell to Boyd, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, at No. 3 singles.
- Freshman Nadya Lyekontseva (Kyiv, Ukraine) also dropped a three-set affair at No. 4 singles to Astrid Bergh, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
- Southern New Hampshire had its eight-match winning streak halted. The Penmen had not lost since a 5-2 defeat at home against Adelphi on Sept. 22.
- SNHU, the defending NE10 Champion, was in the NE10 finals for the sixth time, including the second straight season, and was in search of its fifth title.
- Adelphi, which was in the NE10 final for the second time in three seasons, captures its fourth NE10 crown and first since capping a three-peat in 2017.
- The all-time series is now tied, 11-11. The Penmen have won four of the last seven, but Adelphi has now captured two straight. Southern New Hampshire had won two-in-a-row at Adelphi and loses there for the first time since Oct. 27, 2017 (5-1).
WHAT'S NEXT
- The Penmen are now off until the spring.
