Girls Varsity Tennis hosted Tabor at home on Saturday, April 19, for a noon match minus its top player. The warmest day of the season by far, the sun, bugs and clouds were all out but the weather held with just a few sprinkles. It was the schools' first meeting in two years. With two wins in doubles, there's a parallel universe where three match tiebreakers in singles going the other way would have kept SPS on par with its 2023 5-4 win, but that's not how the stars aligned and Tabor took the day, 7-2. 

In singles, co-Captain Poppy Duggal '25 was shut out while the other five matches were tightly contested. Playing #2, Char Machiels '25 had a match that flip-flopped 6-3, 3-6 before ending 4-7  in the match tiebreaker. At #3, Amelia Guest '25 showed she could do it but ran out of time and luck to finish 1-6, 6-2 and 3-7 in her match tiebreaker. At #4, Emery Gay '26 battled to a 4-6, 5-7 finish. It was déjà vu in the second set for Clara Tcherepnin '26 as things topped out at 4-6, 4-6.

At #6, Daisy Singer '27 rebounded from an educational first set to force a tiebreaker (5-7) that ended things at 1-6, 6-3, 0-1. 
Doubles meant a new top pair as Duggal and Char Machiels teamed up for a 1-8 loss. The #2 duo of Ariadna Rubiralta Kunze and Singer pulled out an 8-5 win while at #3 Didi Machiels '28 and Amelia Chun '28 had a convincing run to 8-4,  the first varsity win for both first-year students.