Jesse Adler Leads Women's Tennis at NTC College Invitational

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. - Senior co-captain Jesse Adler (Winnetka, Ill.) will play for two titles today in D Flight singles and the B Flight doubles with freshman Sarah Leonard (Norwalk, Conn.), while sophomore Shelley Carpeni (New York, N.Y.) and freshman Jeri Reichel (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) will vie for the D Flight doubles title at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Women's College Invitational.

In two days of play, the Big Green went 21-7 at this national event that featured 264 competitors from every Ivy League school plus schools ranging from North Carolina State to Boston College.

The second-seeded Adler reached the final of her singles flight without dropping a set, downing third-seeded Ashley Miller from North Carolina State 6-2, 6-4 yesterday afternoon in the semifinal. She plays Harvard's Alex Lehman in the final at 10 a.m. today.

In doubles action yesterday, Adler and Leonard downed Harvard's second-seeded team of Lehman and Sophie Chang 9-7, battling back from a 7-4, 40-0 deficit. The unseeded duo followed this upset with an 8-6 semifinal win over Brown's Carey Aboubakare and Misia Krasowski. They face Princeton's Ashley Blakely and Rachel Saiontz in the 9 a.m. final today.

In D Flight doubles, Carpeni and Reichel squeaked out a close first round match over a Rutgers team 8-7 (5), and then breezed through the rest of the draw, downing Brown's Jenny Lee-Kate Stewart 8-3, and then Syracuse's Kaitlyn Haycock-Allison Haynes 8-2. They face Brown's Julie Flanzer and Marisa Schonfeld in the final today at 9 a.m. Carpeni also made a run to the H Flight singles semis, beating an opponent from Fairleigh-Dickinson and Brown's Kate Sorokko before falling to Rutgers' Leonora Slatnick yesterday afternoon.

2009 USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Women's College Invitational Results:

A Flight: Sarah Leonard lost to Vicky Brook (3), Yale, 6-3,7-5
Consolation: Leonard def. Katarina Gajic, Boston College, 6-3, 6-3
Leonard def. Emily Wolf, UPenn, Default w/o

D Flight: Jesse Adler (2) def. Linn Sjogren, LIU, 6-1, 6-1
Adler def. Carling Donovan, Columbia, 6-2, 6-4
Adler def. Ashley Miller, N.C. State, 6-2, 6-4

E Flight: Carley Markovitz (4) def. Nakita Austin, St. John's, 6-4, 7-6
Markovitz lost to Sarah O'Neal, Cornell, 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (14-12)

F Flight:Christina Danosi def. Egzona Morina, Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-4, 6-1
Danosi lost to Marissa Schonefeld (4), Brown, 6-1, 6-3
Consolation: Danosi def. Penn's Juliana Rodin 6-2, 7-5
-Jeri Reichel lost to Samantha Gridley, Harvard, 6-4, 6-1
Reichel def. Katelyn Haycock, Syracuse, 7-5, 6-2
Reichel def. Chloe Smith (2), NC State, 7-5, 6-2

G Flight: Julia Zak def. Stephanie Elie LIU 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (2)
Zak lost to Ina Kauppila, Boston College, 6-3, 7-5
Consolation: Zak def. Jurelle Mendoza, Army, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 10-3

H Flight: Shelley Carpeni def. Jessica DeCarlos, Fairleigh-Dickinson, 6-1, 6-0
Carpeni def. Kate Sorokko Brown 6-0, 3-6, 10-6
Carpeni lost in semis to Leonora Slatnick, Rutgers, 6-2, 6-3

B Flight doubles: Adler-Leonard def. Army's Tollerton-Verano 8-6
Adler-Leonard def. Lehman-Chang (2) 9-7
Adler-Leonard def. C. Aboubakare-Krasowski, Brown, 8-6

C Flight doubles: Zak-Danosi def. Binghamton's Bykowkaya-Smimova 8-6
Zak-Danosi lost to Illova-Smith (3), NC State, 8-4

D Flight doubles: Carpeni-J. Reichel def. Baker-Milchutsky, Rutgers, 8-7 (5)
Carpeni-J. Reichel def. Lee-Stewart, Brown, 8-3
Carpeni-J. Reichel def. Haycock-Haynes, Syracuse, 8-2

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