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Zeina Zein will play for the CSA Ramsay Cup title on Tuesday.
Photo by: Michael T. Bello
Zein Wins All-Tiger CSA Semifinal, Set to Defend CSA Title on Tuesday
January 26, 2026 | Women's Squash
Princeton junior Zeina Zein is headed back to the CSA Ramsay Cup final.
Top-seeded Zein defeated Princeton teammate Alex Jaffe in four games at Grand Central Terminal on Monday to return to the final which is set for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. back at Grand Central. Zein will take on third-seeded Caroline Fouts of Harvard. Zein and Fouts have not met in collegiate competition.
Monday's match was a rare non-sweep at CSAs for Zein, who has competed in 12 Ramsay Cup matches over three years and has gone 11-1, winning 10 of the 11 in three games. Zein made the semifinal as a rookie in 2024 before winning the title last year, going 5-0 with sweeps in all five matches. This year, Zein won her first three matches in a sweep before Jaffe pushed Zein to a fourth game.
While Jaffe was seeking to become the first Tiger freshman to reach the final since Hope Mackay '92 in 1989 and make it back-to-back years with a freshman from any school in the final, after Stanford's Riya Navani, who Zein defeated to win the 2025 title, Zein will instead become the first Tiger since Julia Beaver '01 to appear in consecutive finals. Last year, Zein's title was the program's first since Beaver, who won three straight from 1999 to 2001. Cornell's Sivasangari Subramaniam, in 2022 and 2023, was the last player to make it to back-to-back finals, and Harvard's Georgina Kenneday, in 2019 and 2020, was the last player to win consecutive titles.
Draws are available here.
Semifinal
(1) Zeina Zein (Princeton) def. (9-12) Alex Jaffe (Princeton), 3-1 (12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7)
Top-seeded Zein defeated Princeton teammate Alex Jaffe in four games at Grand Central Terminal on Monday to return to the final which is set for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. back at Grand Central. Zein will take on third-seeded Caroline Fouts of Harvard. Zein and Fouts have not met in collegiate competition.
Monday's match was a rare non-sweep at CSAs for Zein, who has competed in 12 Ramsay Cup matches over three years and has gone 11-1, winning 10 of the 11 in three games. Zein made the semifinal as a rookie in 2024 before winning the title last year, going 5-0 with sweeps in all five matches. This year, Zein won her first three matches in a sweep before Jaffe pushed Zein to a fourth game.
While Jaffe was seeking to become the first Tiger freshman to reach the final since Hope Mackay '92 in 1989 and make it back-to-back years with a freshman from any school in the final, after Stanford's Riya Navani, who Zein defeated to win the 2025 title, Zein will instead become the first Tiger since Julia Beaver '01 to appear in consecutive finals. Last year, Zein's title was the program's first since Beaver, who won three straight from 1999 to 2001. Cornell's Sivasangari Subramaniam, in 2022 and 2023, was the last player to make it to back-to-back finals, and Harvard's Georgina Kenneday, in 2019 and 2020, was the last player to win consecutive titles.
Draws are available here.
Semifinal
(1) Zeina Zein (Princeton) def. (9-12) Alex Jaffe (Princeton), 3-1 (12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7)
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