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All Eight Men's Tennis Teams In Action This Weekend
Portions courtesy of Penn Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- All eight Ivy men's tennis
teams are on the courts this weekend as fall tournament play
continues.
Dartmouth and Harvard are participating in their first action of
the fall season competing at the 2010 USTA Billie Jean King
National Tennis Center Men's College Invitational in Flushing, N.Y., along with Brown,
Columbia, Princeton and Yale. Cornell will be action for three days
at the Virginia Ranked Plus One Invitational in Charlottesville,
Va., and Penn will be once again splitting its squad with several
Quakers competing close to home at the Saint Joseph's Invitational
in Philadelphia.
A LOOK BACK
Ivies won four titles at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational
with the only main draw final winner coming from the Tigers' duo of
Alex Faust and Yohei Shoji in a
9-7 victory over Penn State's Guanhua Chen and
Taylor Cohen in the B Doubles final. The 2010 Ivy
League Player and Rookie of the Year Marc Powers
of Yale, the top seed in the A flight, reached the finals but lost
to Penn State's Eddie Bourchier, the second seed,
in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Results of Ivy players in flight final
matches were:
A singles: (2) Eddie Bourchier (Penn State) def.
(1) Marc Powers (Yale), 6-3, 6-2
A singles consolation: Daniel Hoffman (Yale) def.
Matt Spindler (Princeton), 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
B singles consolation: Mike Lampa (St. John's)
def. Jason Magnes (Penn), 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
C singles: Stefan Bojic (St. John's) def.
Coleman Crutchfield (Princeton), 6-2, 6-3
C singles consolation: Jordan Abergel (Yale) def.
C.J. Grffin (Penn State), 7-6(4), 5-7. 6-2
D singles consolation: Zhongmng Chen (Cornell)
def. Patrick Chase (Yale), 6-4, 6-0
A doubles: Bourchier/Jason Lee (Penn State) def.
Eugen Brazdil/Lucas Andreika (Penn), 8-1
B doubles: Faust/Shoji (Princeton) def.
Chen/Cohen (Penn State), 9-7
C doubles: Alex Kalanin/Vusa Hove (Buffalo) def.
Zachary Dean/Tommy Ratchford (Yale), 8-5
At the Georgetown Invitational in Washington, D.C., Penn sophomore
Mark Milbrandt took home the singles consolation
championship. After falling 7-6 in the third set in the first round
to eventual champion Yan Levinski, Milbrandt won
four straight matches to take the crown. The second year defeated
Ville Maaranen of James Madison 6-3,6-2 in the
semifinals and then Yaroslav Voznenko also of
James Madison 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Junior Phil
Law's road to the finals included a battle with teammate
Jason Lin. Law outlasted Lin in a three-hour grudge match, finally
coming away victorious 7-6, 7-6. In the finals Law tried to regroup
but fell 6-1, 6-1.
Brown concluded its first fall matches hosting the Northeast
Intercollegiate and capturing four singles title, three of which
were all-Brown finals. Freshman Sam Fife won the
red draw, sophomore Mike Hill won the orange draw,
freshman Brandon Burke won the yellow draw and
freshman Soufiane Azargui won the green draw. The
Bears' Andrew Yazmer and Miles
Garrigues took the consolation titles in their respective
draws.
