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2025-26 #14 Women's Tennis Roster

Matia Cristiani

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown San Salvador, El Salvador
  • High School Escuela Americana
  • Major Business

Biography

Career Achievements
  • 2024, 2025 NCAA Doubles National Champion
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 ITA All-America singles
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 ITA All-America doubles
  • 2023 NCAA Doubles Championships runner-up
  • 2024 NCAA Singles Championship semifinalist
  • 2023, 2025 NCAA Singles Championship second round
  • 2024 ITA Division III Player to Watch
  • 2024 ITA Northeast Region Player to Watch
  • 2023 ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year
  • 2023 ITA Cup Doubles runner-up
  • 2023 ITA Cup Singles semifinalist
  • 2023 ITA New England Singles champion
  • 2023 ITA New England Doubles champion
  • 2023 NEWMAC Rookie of the Year
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 All-NEWMAC singles first team
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 All-NEWMAC doubles first team
Career Highlights

2024-25:
As a junior, went 27-2 in singles and 27-2 in doubles…captured the program’s second consecutive Division III doubles national championship alongside Olivia Soffer…ended the year ranked No. 8 by the ITA in singles and No. 1 in doubles…went 6-2 in singles versus ITA Top 25 foes and was 9-2 against top-30 opponents in singles…advanced to the Round of 16 before falling to Jacki Soloveychick of Wesleyan in singles and reached the quarterfinals in doubles before suffering a loss to Renna Moshen-Breen and Lane Durkin of Wesleyan at the ITA New England Championships on September 20-22…went 14-0 with two wins at number one and 12 at number two – all in straight sets – during the regular season in singles…also won her final 11 doubles matches with 10 wins at number two after falling to Nina Farhat and Sahana Raman of Middlebury on March 19…recorded a 6-2 win at number one doubles and a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Suzanne Xu at number two singles in the Beavers’ NEWMAC Tournament semifinal triumph over Wellesley on May 3…was a 6-1, 6-1 winner over Chloe Zeng of MIT at number two singles in a 4-2 loss to MIT in the NEWMAC Tournament final on May 4…recorded a 6-1 victory at number one doubles and was a 6-0, 6-0 winner over Lydia Chan of UMass Boston in a 5-0 sweep of UMass Boston in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on May 9…beat Jay Xiao and Sophia Kim 6-0 at number one doubles and defeated Catharina Ausfahl 6-1, 7-5 at number two singles in a 4-2 loss to Johns Hopkins in the second round of the NCAAA Tournament on May 10…downed Maegan Deng of Redlands 6-0, 7-5 in the first round for her 18th straight singles win before suffering a 1-6, 4-6 loss to Soloveychick of Wesleyan in the second round of the NCAA singles championship on May 24…defeated Oliwia and Sylwia Mikos of Chicago, No. 20 Brooke Despriet and Ansley Carpenter of Sewanee, No. 12 Alisha Chulani and Rebecca Kong of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and avenged their lone dual-match loss by defeating Farhat and Raman of Middlebury 6-2, 6-2 to claim their second straight doubles national championship on May 24-27 in Claremont, Calif.

2023-24: As a sophomore, went 29-2 in singles and 32-2 in doubles…ended the year at No. 2 in both the ITA singles and doubles rankings…won the Division III national championship in doubles alongside Olivia Soffer and advanced to the semifinals of the singles bracket…also advanced to the singles semifinals and doubles final at the ITA Cup…claimed singles and doubles titles at the ITA New England Championships…set a new single-season program record for combined wins with 61…won five of six singles matches in straight sets, including a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Sarah Youngberg of Wesleyan in the final, and teamed with Soffer to go 5-0 on the way to claiming the program’s first doubles title at the ITA New England Championships on September 22-24…suffered her only singles loss of the fall to Sylwia Mikos of Chicago in the semifinals of the ITA Cup on October 14…went 15-0 in dual-match singles play in the spring with every win coming in straight sets…also went 14-1 in doubles play, which included wins over defending Division III champions Katherine Petty and Brooke Despriet of Sewanne (8-7) on March 15 and 10th-ranked Emily Kantrovitz and Ana Christina Perez of Emory (8-4) on April 5…went 2-0 in both singles and doubles in the NEWMAC Tournament…defeated Danna Taylor of Carnegie Mellon, Maegan Deng of Redlands and Katya Shepherd Johnson of MIT to reach the semifinals of the NCAA Singles draw before falling to Slywia Mikos and paired with Soffer to beat Nikolina Batoshvili and Alisha Chulani of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 6-1, 6-7 (1-7), 6-4) in the doubles final to claim the program’s first national championship on May 27 in St. Louis, Mo. 

2022-23: As a first-year, went 24-2 in all singles matches and 24-4 in doubles action…finished the year ranked fifth in the ITA northeast region and 13th overall in the Division III singles poll as well as first in the region and second in the Division III doubles rankings with Olivia Soffer…became just the second female in program history to earn All-America honors after advancing to the round of 16 of the NCAA Division III singles championship and finishing runner-up in the doubles bracket…broke the previous program single-season record for singles wins and finished second on the team behind Soffer (31)…went 14-0 in dual matches (2-0 at No. 1, 12-0 at No. 2), including 5-0 in NEWMAC play…made her collegiate debut with 3-0 records in both singles and doubles at the Wellesley Invitational on September 16-18…won her first three singles and two doubles matches to advance to the quarterfinals in both brackets at the ITA New England Championships on September 23-25…claimed the A Draw title with Soffer at the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT) on October 9-11…went 10-0 in singles (5-0 NEWMAC) and 11-0 in doubles (5-0 NEWMAC) during regular season play, helping Babson to wins over nationally-ranked opponents Washington U. (March 16), Brandeis (March 30), MIT (April 4) and NYU (April 15)…captured wins in both singles and doubles in a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal win over Smith on April 29 and NCAA Tournament second and third round matches against Endicott (May 6) and Amherst (May 7)…defeated Carmen Bufkin of Cal Lutheran, 6-1, 6-2, in the first round of the NCAA singles championship before falling to Sahana Raman of Middlebury, 6-4, 6-3, in the round of 16 on May 19…teamed with Olivia Soffer for three consecutive victories in the NCAA doubles championship to advance to the final, where they finished runner-up after a 6-4, 6-2 setback to Katherine Petty/Brooke Despriet of Sewanee on May 22.

Career Statistics

Singles Overall     Dual     Tourn.     Conf.     No. 1     No. 2     No. 3     No. 4     No. 5     No. 6    
2022-23 24-2 14-0 10-2 5-0 2-0 12-0 ----- ----- ----- -----
2023-24 29-2 15-0 14-2 5-0 1-0 14-0 ----- ----- ----- -----
2024-25 27-2 18-0 9-2 5-0 2-0 16-0 ----- ----- ----- -----
Career Totals     80-4 47-0 33-4 15-0 5-0 42-0 ----- ----- ----- -----

Doubles Overall     Dual     Tourn.   Conf.      No. 1                   No. 2                      No. 3                 
2022-23 24-4 14-1 10-3 5-0 14-1 ----- -----
2023-24 32-2 14-1 18-1 5-0 14-1 ----- -----
2024-25 27-2 16-1 11-1 5-0 15-1 1-0 -----
Career Totals     83-8 44-3 39-5 15-0 43-2 1-0 -----

 

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