Northwestern women’s tennis earned its biggest win of the season on Friday, defeating No. 7 Vanderbilt 4-2 in the Combe Tennis Center. Northwestern’s two doubles teams (Lipp/Larner are No. 2 in the nation, Chatt/Orr are No. 13) quickly earned the doubles point to give Northwestern a key early advantage. Vanderbilt’s Astra Sharma and Amanda Meyer fought back with routine straight sets wins to put the Commodores up 2-1, but Alex Chatt won her No. 4 singles match to level the contest at 2-2.
Northwestern then decisively went ahead when Julie Byrne sealed a win over Summer Dvorak (7-6 [7-3], 6-2).