CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 31 TCNJ women's tennis team saw its tremendous season come to an end with a 4-0 setback at the hands of host and 9
th-ranked MIT in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.
The Lions conclude the 2025-26 campaign with an overall mark of 20-2, the most dual wins in a single season since the 1985-86 NCAA champions went 24-1 and the highest total in head coach
Scott Dicheck's 27-year tenure. TCNJ also won a first-round NCAA match for the 19
th consecutive Tournament.
Despite the final score, the blue and gold showed their mettle.
Eleni Dakos and
Gabrielle Brideau led, 4-3, over Carly Chen and Chloe Zheng at number two doubles when the Engineers (17-3) finished off the doubles point with decisive wins in the first and third flights.
Dakos put up a strong fight at number one singles against 14
th-ranked Saina Deshpande, leading 3-2 in the second set before conceding a 6-3, 6-3 decision.
Shruti Mannan, meanwhile, was in a 6-5 battle in the second set at number four, and
Gabriella Robinson had erased an early 3-0 deficit to pull into a 3-3 tie in the first set at number five.
NOTES
- Dakos' 45 combined wins are tied for 3rd-most in a single-season in the modern era (since 1992), as are her 23 singles wins
- Albert (43), Robinson (42), and Ring (42) all went over 40 wins on the season, and Ring and Robinson's 23 doubles wins are just two off the program record
- Albert (119) and Robinson (111) will enter their senior campaigns with well over 100 wins, while Mannan (74) and Ring (72) are already nearly three-quarters of the way to the Century Club after just two seasons
