Katie Kuzmishin

The College of Wooster women's tennis team suffered a tough 5-4 setback at Wittenberg University on Friday, as the rival Tigers outlasted the Fighting Scots in three of the four singles matches that went three sets as well as in a doubles tiebreaker.

Wittenberg (3-10) gained a 2-1 lead when its top doubles team upended Rachel Molé and Elizabeth Brewington in a 10-8 tiebreaker. They had split at the second and third doubles positions, with Katie Kuzmishin and Morgan Wagers of Wooster (3-10) taking the former by an 8-6 count.

The Scots went ahead 3-2, prevailing in the first two singles matches that were completed. Anne Sophie Haanen won convincingly at No. 5, securing a 6-1, 6-3 score line, and Kuzmishin emerged victorious in straight sets – 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 – at No. 4.

The remaining matches all went the distance. Brewington nearly won in two, but after falling in a second-set tiebreaker, was tripped up 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 at the third spot, while Molé dropped a back-and-forth affair at the top of the lineup, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Wagers was the other tough-luck loser, finishing on the short end of a 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 match at No. 2.

Aditi Sringeri provided Wooster the final point of the match via a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 triumph at the sixth position.

The Scots will face their second nationally-ranked opponent in three matches on Sunday when they travel to No. 22 Case Western Reserve University (9-3).