BURR RIDGE, Ill. – The University of Chicago women's tennis team lost to DePauw University 6-3 on Saturday. The No. 9-ranked Maroons dropped to 5-3 while the No. 12-ranked Tigers improved to 7-2.

Before the start of the matches, the UChicago men's and women's tennis squads held a free clinic for adults and kids. A total of 178 fans were in attendance.

Junior Megan Tang and sophomore Helen Sdvizhkov teamed up to win the No. 1 doubles match 8-4. However, DePauw took the other two doubles spots and four of the six singles spots to get the team victory. Tang also won at No. 1 singles and freshman Tiffany Chen was victorious at No. 3 singles.  

"Tonight's match was a tough one for us," Head Coach Jay Tee said. "We were without, pound for pound, one of our best players in Sruthi Ramaswami, so we knew it would be a tough task. We definitely miss Sruthi's leadership and the confidence she gives us. That said, it was still a match I thought we could have won. We will need to use these next two weeks to get healthy and to improve because the schedule does us no favors with three-consecutive matches with teams ranked in the top five."

DePauw 6, UChicago 3
Singles
1. Megan Tang (UC) def. Maggie MacPhail (DPUW) 6-2, 6-2
2. Claire Marshall (DPUW) def. Helen Sdvizhkov (UC) 6-0, 7-5
3. Tiffany Chen (UC) def. Meg Crowley (DPUW) 6-1, 6-3
4. Taylor Mahr (DPUW) def. Kelsey McGillis (UC) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
5. Caroline Emhardt (DPUW) def. Stephanie Lee (UC) 6-0, 5-7, 1-0 (10-3)
6. Carolyn Huerth (DPUW) def. Laura Anderson (UC) 6-0, 6-1
Doubles
1. Megan Tang/Helen Sdvizhkov (UC) def. Meg Crowley/Claire Marshall (DPUW) 8-4
2. Caroline Emhardt/Maggie MacPhail (DPUW) def. Jordan Appel/Tiffany Chen (UC) 8-5
3. Julie Wittwer/Kaitlin Pickrel (DPUW) def. Laura Anderson/Kelsey McGillis (UC) 9-8 (7-4)

NEXT MATCH:

• Sunday, Mar. 23 – UChicago at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 10 AM (PT)