Saturday 4/25 – Andover: 6, Exeter: 3
Monday 4/27 – Andover: 8, BB&N: 1
Wednesday 4/29 – Andover: 9, NMH: 0
Girls Tennis (8–0) defeated Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter), BB&N, and Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) this past week, maintaining its undefeated record and earning its fifth sweep of the season with a 9–0 win over NMH.
Facing rival Exeter, the team brought strong energy into its matches. Angelina Zhang ’27 compared the matchup to other tough competitors and noted the obstacles the team overcame.
“Everyone was hyping themselves up and hyping everyone else up, too. It’s one of the tougher matches that we’re going to have, compared to Groton. Groton was a really tough one, and then we had a really chill couple of matches in between, and this is going to be our next hardest one. According to the rest of the team, Exeter got better compared to last year. Also, we were missing people because of college visits, so our lineup got reconfigured,” said Zhang.
With support from the 2026-2027 Blue Key Heads, Zhang described the environment of the matches as positive, competitive, and respectful.
“The environment was pretty good. We had the Blue Key Heads coming over. There [were] also the Varsity B matches going on. Neither team was cheering against the other team, which was pretty good. When a point was won, the player would be happy, but otherwise everyone [was] supportive and also being mindful,” said Zhang.
Despite remaining undefeated, the team continues to focus on growth. Michelle Oh ’29 commented on the importance of learning even in victory.
“Our wins give us more experience on how to win and also what to take from the points that we do lose or the matches that we do lose. That’s really important because even though we have been on a winning streak since the start of the season, those things that we need to work on in each individual match help us and push us to keep working harder,” said Oh.
Looking to replicate last year’s undefeated season and NEPSAC championship, Lara Madan ’27 discussed how the team continues to focus on consistency in its drills and strategies.
“We were continuing off the same drills, the doubles points, and really focusing and honing it on doubles this year as well, which has helped us so far. People during practices, not overdoing it, but still getting serves in and doing all the basics. For all of us, once we all have the basics down, that’s when we start cruising, and that’s when we perform our best. We’ve been really honing in on those things during practice,” said Madan.
Those refinements and details showed in Girls Tennis’s sweep of NMH. Mercan Draman ’26 highlighted how players applied strategies from practice.
“In doubles, we were working on what to do when two players are back, instead of one being at the volley. The players that Mira [Phan ’27] and Nitya [Madduri ’28] were playing happened to do that. So, Mira was very up at the net and demonstrating all the tactics we had talked about this week,” said Draman.
Girls Tennis will face Deerfield on Saturday and Milton next Wednesday.
