Last week, Arianne Hartono, a senior on the Ole Miss Women’s Tennis team, made history by capturing the program’s first-ever women’s singles title in the 2018 NCAA Championship.
Hartono defeated Pepperdine’s Ashley Lahey at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex on May 28 to secure the title. She joins 2009 men’s tennis NCAA Champion, Devin Britton, as the only players from Ole Miss to win an NCAA singles national championship.
Hartono’s road to the championship was not an easy one. In the semifinals against Pepperdine’s Mayar Sherif, Hartono had to rally her way back from a set down to win in a tiebreaker.