EWING, N.J. – The No. 40 TCNJ women's tennis team picked up its biggest win of the season to date on Wednesday, holding off No. 30 Haverford for an impressive 5-2 victory.
 
Doubles came right down to the wire, with Haverford's win at No. 2 canceling out Elizabeth Ring and Gabriella Robinson's 6-0 bagel at No. 3.
 
That left it to the number one court, where Zoey Albert and Shruti Mannan pulled out a 7-6 (2) tiebreaker against Aarti Prochnow and Jolie Zink to secure the all-important doubles point. The Lions' top tandem led 5-2 before the Fords stormed back to go up 6-5, but Albert and Mannan managed to win the game they needed to get it to a breaker, which they controlled the whole way.
 
The bookend singles courts pushed TCNJ to the brink of victory, with Ring posting a 6-0, 6-0 double-bagel at number six and Eleni Dakos following with a commanding 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Haverford's Jolie Zink, who is 17^th in the Atlantic South regional singles rankings.
 
The Fords (9-8) got on the board with a win in a third-set super tiebreak at number three, but Albert quickly put to rest any comeback hopes the visitors may have harbored with a 7-5, 6-3 win against Prochnow at number two.
 
Gabriella Robinson prevailed in a 7-5, 0-6, 10-6 thriller at number five, and Mannan came back from down 6-2, 5-2 to claim the second set in a tiebreaker before coming up just short in a 12-10 super tiebreak marathon.

NOTES

• Just a junior, Albert became the 22nd player in program history to reach 50 career singles wins
• Albert is also one win away from joining the all-time top-20 in combined victories

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• The Lions head to Stockton on Saturday for a pair of NJAC matches against Rutgers-Camden and the host Ospreys