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Women's Tennis Teams Return to the Courts for Final Fall Weekend
Portions courtesy of Penn Athletic Communications and Yale Sports Publicity
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League women's tennis teams return to the courts for a final time this fall Nov. 4-7 with all eight teams in action.
Teams will be scattered with Columbia, Penn and Yale at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships at the USTA-Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., with Columbia servng as the tournament host, Dartmouth hosting Boston College, Boston University, Ohio State and Massachusetts in the Big Green Invitational, Harvard hosting its own invitational, which includes Brown and Cornell, and Princeton participating in the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.
At the National Indoors, Columbia's Nicole Bartnik will be competing in singles and doubles with Bianca Sanon, Penn's Connie Hsu will also be competing in singles and Yale's Vicky Brook and Lindsay Clark will be competing in doubles.
A LOOK BACK
The Ivy League made history at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships,
hosted by Dartmouth at the Boss Tennis Center, winnning the singles
and doubles titles.
Hsu did not drop a set in her impressive run to capture the singles championship. In the final, Hsu predictably had her toughest match of the tournament. Facing off against Binghamton's Anna Edelman, she took the first set 7-5 and then captured the second, 7-6, by winning the tiebreaker in convincing 7-0 fashion.
Hsu's performance in the ITA Regional is the best for a Penn women's tennis player in fall competition since former Quaker Alice Pirsu reached the quarterfinals of the 2001 Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships.
Hsu had to go up against Molly Scott of host Dartmouth in the semifinals. She made quick work of the Big Green senior, dispatching of Scott and advancing to the final without giving up a single point, 6-0, 6-0. To reach the semifinals, Hsu had to first go through Blair Seideman of Yale in the round of 16, winning in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1. In the quarterfinals she matched up against Bianca Aboubakare of Brown, taking care of the senior 6-1, 6-1.
It was an all-Ivy final in the doubles draw as Brook and Clark, as the No. 2 seed, knocked off the No. 1-seeded Princeton team of Hilary Bartlett and Taylor Marable 8-3 for the win, marking the first time a Yale team earn spots to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships.
