THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Cal Lutheran women's and men's tennis hosted the Whitman Blues at the Poulson Tennis Center in a two-day event. The Regals competed on Tuesday afternoon, and the Kingsmen followed on Wednesday afternoon. The women's team lost a tightly-contested match by a score of 4-3 while the men's team dropped its match 5-2.

In their first countable action since February 22, the Regals trotted out the duos of Mina Ahmadi/Carmen Bufkin, Kylee Limpias/Maddy Ford, and Anya Rajan/Luisa Garcia.

Ahmadi/Bufkin lost their set 6-3, marking the partnership's first loss of 2025. They had won their first five matches together, with three of those being 6-0 victories. Limpias/Ford battled to a 7-5 defeat. Rajan/Garcia clawed out an extremely close victory in a 7(9)-6(7) set, keeping Rajan undefeated in doubles in 2025 (5-0). When she is paired with Garcia, they are 3-0.

The narrow win by Rajan/Garcia wasn't enough to claim the team doubles point, putting Cal Lutheran in a one-point hole heading into singles.

Bufkin lost her first set 6-3, ending her 11 consecutive set wins to begin 2025. She recovered to win the match with 7-5 and 6-1 second- and third-set wins, respectively. She moved to 6-0 in the spring season with one unfinished match, in which she was leading.

Rajan carried over her momentum from doubles, winning 6-4, 6-2 to improve her 2025 singles record to 4-2. Ford lost 6-0, 6-3 while Garcia lost 6-2, 6-4. Ford is now 4-2, and Garcia stands at 4-3.

Limpias cruised to a 6-1, 6-4 victory to improve to 5-0 in singles in 2025. She has only dropped one set and that came back on February 8 in the season opener at Santa Cruz, an unfinished match for Limpias.

Fatima Nemi suited up for the Regals in singles and played a hard-fought match that went the distance. Ultimately, she would come up short after winning the second set, with the final score being 7(9)-6(7), 3-6, 6-1. Nemi is now 1-1 in the spring season.

The Regals are 5-3 overall and will look to get back in the win column tomorrow when they host Colorado College at 5pm.

Also in their first countable action since February 22, the Kingsmen went with the pairings of Ethan Sherwood/Loup Sudre, Raphael Simon/Maciej Gawronski, and Frederick Otto/Andy Ai.

Sherwood/Sudre won 6-4, moving to 4-3 as a duo in 2025. Gawronski made his collegiate debut, joining Simon in a doubles match. They battled but were defeated 7-5. Otto/Ai fought in a tight set, dropping the tiebreak 7-2. Whitman gained the team doubles point, forcing the Kingsmen into an early deficit.

Sherwood lost his singles match 6-2, 6-4, falling to 4-3 in singles in 2025. Simon was able to get Cal Lutheran in the win column by eking out a 6-4, 7(7)-6(5) victory after an intense second-set tiebreak. Sudre continued the drama by splitting the first two sets including a tiebreak loss in the second. In the 10-point third-set tiebreak, Sudre prevailed to win by a score of 6-3, 6(4)-7(7), 10-5.

Ai was unable to pull out a win, getting beaten 7-5, 6-2. Otto's match went to a third-set tiebreak, but he wasn't able to hold on, losing 4-6, 7-5, 10-6. After seeing the court for the first time in his career in the preceding doubles, Gawronski remained on the court for singles. He kept it close in the first set but eventually lost 7-5, 6-0.

The Kingsmen fall to 3-5 overall and will look to get back on track tomorrow against Colorado College at home at 1pm.