ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy women's tennis team (6-3) picked up two wins on Sunday to finish 3-1 during its four-match weekend. The Midshipmen won 6-1 over Villanova and Towson at the Tose Family Tennis Center.
 
Navy has now won six matches at home to start the season and has won 13-straight home matches dating back to last season.
 
"It was a long and hard weekend and I am proud with how we handled everything," head coach Keith Puryear said. "It was really challenging to come back after yesterday and play two very competitive teams as well today. Catalina [Rico] and Amanda [Cyr] did an unbelievable job today playing two doubles matches and winning both of them 6-0 at the No. 1 spot, that was really impressive. They are showing some of the things we are trying to focus on. Aimee [Dervishian] also did a really good job today. She had a tough match yesterday and found ways to keep her match competitive yesterday, but just could not take that next step and today she came out and played lights out tennis."
 
Puryear also commented on how his team has performed at home. "We have really good crowd support and I think that really helps in playing matches at home where you have some people behind you. We are very comfortable at home. We have a beautiful facility and it is one of the best in the country. It is a great place to play and I think it is a great place to watch as well. It shows when we play and we feel very comfortable here."
 
Navy 6, Villanova 1
 
Navy jumped out to an early lead with a pair of 6-0 doubles wins to takes the doubles point. Aimee Dervishian (Jr., Milton, Ga.) and Annalise Klopfer (Fr., Palm Harbor, Fla.) earned the first 6-0 win over Lexi Denucci and Kaylan Rotman at No. 2 doubles and then Amanda Cyr (So., Cary, N.C.) and Catalina Rico (Sr., San Jose, Calif.) followed at No. 1 doubles against Claudia Althan and Lindsey Evans. The victory at No. 1 doubles for Rico put her at 100 career wins and she becomes the eighth individual to have 100 combined wins in program history. 
 
After the Midshipmen clinched the doubles point, the Wildcats avoided the sweep after a 6-3 from Carina Burdick and Olivia Kapp at No. 3 doubles against Miranda Deng (So., North Potomac, Md.) and Kaylah Hodge (Jr., Upper Marlboro, Md.).
 
Navy's freshmen pair of Klopfer and Meghana Komarraju (Fr., Vienna, Va.) pushed the Midshipmen's lead to 3-0 with straight-set wins to start singles competition. Klopfer won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 4 singles against Alexandra Vesikallio, while Komarraju grabbed a 6-1, 6-1 decision against Kapp at No. 5. Deng clinched the victory for Navy after a 6-3, 6-3 victory at No. 3 singles over Evans to push the Mids ahead, 4-0. 
 
Villanova scored its first team point of the match at No. 2 singles after Denucci won 6-2, 6-2 against Hodge. The bookend matches at No. 1 and 6 went into a tiebreaker third set. At No. 6 Rico continued her strong day with a 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (10-7) win over Burdick. Ansofi Wreder (Jr., Miami, Fla.) rallied from a set down to win 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9) at No. 1 singles to seal Navy's 6-1 victory to start the day.
 
Navy 6, Towson 1
 
The duo of Cyr and Rico continued to roll in the second match of the day as they earned their second-straight 6-0 win at No. 1 doubles against Alexa Martinez and Yevgeniya Shusterman. Towson evened up doubles at one win each after Phoebe Collins and Amelia Lawson held off Komarraju and Kacey Moore (Fr., Wellington, Fla.) at No. 3 doubles, 6-4.
 
With the doubles point coming down to No. 2, a back-and-forth battle broke out between Navy's pair of Danika Kahatapitiya (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.) and Tina Li (So., Wexford, Pa.) and Towson's Lucy Gloninger and Themis Haliou. After playing to a six-all-tie, Kahatapitiya and Li outlasted Gloninger and Haliou in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-4).
 
In tightly contested singles matches that saw three first sets end in 7-5 scores, Dervishian extended the Midshipmen's lead to 2-0 after a 6-0, 6-2 victory at No. 2 singles against Haliou. Li put Navy on the brink of its third-straight victory after winning 6-3, 6-1 against Lawson at the fourth-seeded singles match. Moore earned the match-clinching win for the Mids at No. 3 over Shusterman, 7-5, 6-3.
 
Cyr won a three-set tiebreaker over Gloninger at No. 5 singles, 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (11-9) to extend the Navy lead to five. Towson spoiled the shutout for the Midshipmen at No. 1 after Martinez grabbed a 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (10-7) win over Wreder. The final match left on the court came at No. 6 singles and Kahatapitiya won a tight match up against Claire Bedi in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), and Navy won its second match of the day by a score of 6-1.
 
The Midshipmen are back home in one week's time as they host Mount St. Mary's and Fairleigh Dickinson next Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.