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Women's Tennis Continues Fall Tournament Slate
Portions courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics
Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The fall tournament slate
continues for Ivy women's tennis this weekend with seven teams in
action.
Brown will be at home hosting its three-day Brown Invitational
while Penn will be hosting Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and
Princeton in the Cissie Leary Invitational. Harvard is off this
weekend and returns to the courts Oct. 2, at the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association/Riveria Women's All-American Championships in
Pacific Palisades, Calif., along with Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton
and Yale.
A LOOK BACK
Cornell took home to singles titles in its own fall invitational
as freshman Ryann Young earned the Flight B
singles title by defeating teammate Elizabeth
Kaufman, 6-2; 6-1, and sophomore Geraldine
Leong defeated Buffalo's Miranda Podlas
to win the Flight C singles crown, 6-3; 6-4.
At the Columbia Invitational at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center,
Princeton's Monica Chow and Sarah
Hoffman stole the show with Chow winning Flight A and B
singles titles, respectively. Chow held true to form of her top
seed, defeating St. John's Joanna Zwirbulis 6-0,
6-2 in Flight A final. Chow defeated Columbia freshman
Bianca Sanon in the semifinals en route to her
flight title. Fellow Lion first-year Ioana Alecsiu
advanced to the finals of the back draw, where she lost to
Nakita Austin of St. John's, 7-5, 6-2. She beat
teammate Katarina Kovacevic to advance to the
consolation final. Hoffman won Flight B singles in straight sets,
6-1, 6-0, over Penn's Daniela DePaoli in the
final. She also defeated a Columbia player, Diana
Shapoval, in the semifinals. In the doubles draw, Chow and
Hoffman, as the No. 1 seed, reached the final but lost to Penn's
third-seeded pair of Alexa Ely and Jaime
Yapp-Shing.
Dartmouth freshmen Melissa Matsuoka and
Rachel Decker-Sadowski finished second and third,
respectively, in the Flight D singles draw at the University of
Virgina Fall Invitational. Matsuoka was edged 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the
final by Winthrop's Andressa Garcia, while
Decker-Sadowski defeated Annette Rios of
UNC-Greensboro 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in the third place playoff.
Yale played playing Oklahoma State in singles and Georgia in
doubles at the Georgia Hidden Dual Tournament in Atlanta. The
Bulldogs got three singles wins from freshman Blaire
Seideman in Flight 1, sophomore Elizabeth
Epstein in Flight 2 and freshman Kim
Szokol in Flight 3. In doubles play versus Georgia, Yale
earned two wins from Seideman and junior Stephanie
Kent in Flight 3 and freshman Anne
Sullivan and senior Stevi Petrelli in
Flight 4.
Princeton's ITA eighth-ranked duo of Hilary
Bartlett and Taylor Marable took
third-place title in Flight A doubles at the Duke Fab Four Invite
in Cary, N.C. Bartlett and Marable, along with Rachel
Saiontz and Brett Ellen Keeler, all lost
their respective first-round singles matches. Bartlett and Saiontz
rebounded to pick up a win each in the consolation rounds of their
respective flights.
