The Case Western Reserve University women's tennis team opened the fall season with a strong performance at the two-day Kenyon Invitational in Gambier, Ohio on the campus of Kenyon College on Saturday and Sunday.

Overall, the Spartans won 73 percent of their singles matches (19-7 record) and 56 percent of their doubles matches (9-7 record) against top competition including individuals from Division II Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, Kenyon College, Otterbein University, Denison University, the College of Wooster, John Carroll University and Oberlin College. Two Spartans—senior Nina Hoog and first-year Ellior Rose—went undefeated at the invitational.

Hoog went 2-0 in singles matches, including a 6-0, 6-0 sweep over Emily Duckett from John Carroll, and 2-0 in doubles matches with sophomore Anna Kan. Rose, making her collegiate debut, won two singles matches and two doubles matches with junior Chloe Ku.

Juniors Katherine Wang and Caitlyn Hsu, sophomores Hannah Kassaie and Lily McCloskey, and first-year Elsa Syed all went 2-0 in singles matches. Kassaie, ranked 13th nationally at the end of last season, defeated Carnegie Mellon's Sarah Yang, ranked 12th nationally. Wang won a hard-fought 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 match over Felicity Kolb of John Carroll and also picked up a doubles win with first-year Asha Shukla.

Returning to the courts for the first time in over a year, senior Shreya Ramani went 2-1 in doubles play with junior Pallavi Goculdas. Goculdas, Kan, Ku, and sophomore Radha Patel each picked up singles wins.

First-year Katalina Wang earned her first collegiate doubles win when she paired with Patel to defeat Indiana's Joanna Stralka and Idoia Huerta, while Shukla earned her first career singles win over Wooster's Otilia Oita.

CWRU continues the fall campaign with the Denison Invitational in Granville, Ohio from September 17-18.