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Six Men's Tennis Teams Open Fall Play This Weekend
Portions courtesy of Cornell Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Six Ivy men's tennis teams
open their fall tournament schedules this weekend for the 2010-11
season, five of which will have representation at the
Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational.
The Tigers will host 10 schools across the Northeast, including
Ivy foes Columbia, Cornell, Penn and Yale, in a tournament that
will also feature Binghamton, Buffalo, Fairleigh Dickinson, Penn
State and St. John's. The tournament format will be five singles
draws and three doubles draws with play starting at 9 a.m. Friday
and Saturday before the final matches in each flight begin at 10
a.m. Sunday. Matches will be played at the Lenz Tennis Center with
the indoor courts at Jadwin Gym available in the event of inclement
weather.
Penn is splitting its squad between the Princeton Invitational and
the Georgetown Invitational in Washington, D.C.
Under first-year head coach David Schwarz, Brown
is competing at home for its first fall tournament hosting the
Northeast Intercollegiate. Play begins Friday and concludes Sunday
in Providence, R.I., and will include opponents from a dozen
schools from around the region.
Dartmouth and Harvard will hit the courts next weekend for the
first time with the Big Green competing at the National Tennis
Center Invitation in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., while the Crimson will
be at the Northeast Invitational in Providence, R.I.
A LOOK BACK
Cornell opened fall tournament play for the Ivies Sept. 10-12 at
the Virginia Fall Classic at the Snyder Tennis Center in
Charlottesville, Va. In blue singles, Andy
Gauthier took fifth-place, earning a pair of victories
after falling in Saturday's quarterfinals. In orange singles,
Jeremy Feldman lost his opening round match but
rebounded with two victories the next day in the backdraw.
Jon Jaklitsch also lost his opening round match on
Friday, but came back to earn a win in the backdraw. In gold
singles, Zhongming Chen earned his first
collegiate victory before falling in Saturday's
quarterfinals. He went on to a fifth-place finish. In red singles,
Max Haskin responded to an opening round loss by
winning his next three matches, including the finals of the
backdraw. Mirza Klis won the main draw of the
green singles.
In blue doubles, Jaklitsch and Klis rebounded from an opening round loss on Friday with a victory on Saturday to reach the championship match of the backdraw. The results from their Sunday match were not reported. In orange doubles, Gauthier and Feldmen lost on Friday but advanced to the final match of the backdraw, where they fell 9-8. In black doubles, Haskin and Charles Quay won 8-6 to advance to Saturday's quarterfinals. The pair finished in fourth-place. In green doubles, Chen and Chris Song advanced to the final match in the backdraw, wher they fell, 8-5.
