Middlebury fall tennis season is in full swing! We are
fast approaching four weekends in a row of tournament action! Getting some
additional press, the Middlebury College newspaper recently released a
fantastic article about Will de Quant and Lubomir Cuba, detailing their
individual national championships as well as providing insight into the
engaging personalities of these two team leaders. Please click this link to check out the
article: https://middleburycampus.com/36027/sports/two-for-two-midds-ncaa-singles-doubles-sweep-revisited/
Over the past two weeks, the team has been hard at work shaking off any rusty aspects of our games leftover from the
summer break. On the courts we have been attempting to use a balanced approach to establish good habits in the basic aspects of our stroke production,
challenging our skills in competitive games, and then last weekend competing in an
intrasquad Blue/White match where the coaches were pleased to see the Panthers
sharpening their competitive edges. We will need to bring everything we have
this coming weekend as all thirteen members of the Panther squad (aside from Cole Sutton who is currently studying abroad in Madrid, Spain) will compete in the
Middlebury Invitational this Saturday and Sunday (9/23 and 9/24). Match play begins at 9am on
both days for anyone who is interested in coming out to support. If you are
following along from afar, results will be updated here: http://athletics.middlebury.edu/sports/mten/2017-18/schedule. The Middlebury Invitation will be a fun event that will hopefully prepare our squad for the ITA Regional
that we are hosting right here in Middlebury the very next weekend (9/29,
9/30, and 10/1).
As can be seen below, the Middlebury Panthers have dominated
their own invitational since results have been archived dating back to
2002. The current panther squad will
look to expand on the illustrious history created by some phenomenal Midd tennis beasts!
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| Nate Edmunds ('06) was an A Flight Singles Champion in 2002 and 2004 and an A Flight Doubles Champion in 2002, 2004, and 2005 |
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| Brian Waldron ('06) was an A Flight Singles Champion in 2003, 2004, and 2005 and an A Flight Doubles Champion in 2004 and 2005 |
A Brief History of the Middlebury Invitational A Flight
|
Year
|
Singles Winner
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Singles Finalist
|
Doubles Winners
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2002
|
Edmunds (Midd)
|
Burke (Bow)
|
Ingoglia/Edmunds
Hulce/Beilin (Midd)
co-champs
|
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2003
|
Waldron (Midd)
|
Edmunds (Midd)
|
Brown/Ingoglia (Midd)
|
|
2004
|
Waldron/Mayer (Midd)
|
Co-champs
|
Edmunds/Waldron Beilin/Scott (Midd) co-champs
|
|
2005
|
Edmunds/Waldron (Midd)
|
Co-champs
|
Bergesen/Edmunds
Beilin/Waldron (Midd) co-champs
|
|
2006
|
Alex Scott (Midd)
|
Marsden (Trin)
|
Marinkovic/Olson Scott/Mayer (Midd) co-champs
|
|
2007
|
Gates (Bow)
|
Stein (Bates)
|
Marinkovic/Thomson (Midd)
|
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2008
|
Sullivan (Bow)
|
Stein (Bates)
|
Brown/Chin (Colby)
|
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2009
|
Thomson (Midd)
|
Pena (Bow)
|
Rupasinghe/Bettles (Bates)
|
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2010
|
Peters (Midd)
|
Bonfiglio (Trin)
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Rifkin/Newton (Ith)
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2011
|
Parower (Midd)
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Jones (Midd)
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Jones/Lebovitz (Midd)
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2012
|
Cramptom (Bates)
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Bettles (Bates)
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Crampton/Bettles (Bates)
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2013
|
Fitzgibbons (Midd)
|
Glickman (Tufts)
|
Mountifield/Smolyar (Midd)
|
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2014
|
Smolyar (Midd)
|
Farrell (Midd)
|
Planche/Ellis (Bates)
|
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2015
|
Farrell (Midd)
|
Granoff (Brandeis)
|
Grimes/Uyeno (RPI)
|
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2016
|
Farrell (Midd)
|
Leung (Skidmore)
|
Derbani/Schlanger (Midd)
|
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| Teddy Fitzgibbons ('14) was an A Flight Singles Champion in 2013. |
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more blog updates as the results from our fall events start rolling in. We truly appreciate the Midd Tennis Almuni and Family Network support!
Go Midd!
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