Cornell Slips Past Big Green in Ivy Season Opener

Friday, April 2

Ithaca, N.Y.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Cornell University

Dartmouth Men's Tennis Drops Match to Columbia

Cornell Slips Past Big Green in Ivy Season Opener

4/3/2010 10:37:00 AM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

ITHACA, NY - The Dartmouth men's tennis team won the doubles point, but could not hold down Cornell in singles play and dropped a 5-2 decision to the Big Red in the Ivy League opener.

Junior Stephen Greif (San Antonio, Texas) and junior captain Curtis Roby (New York, N.Y.) clinched the doubles point in an exciting 8-6 victory. Their match followed a great performance by sophomore Chris Ho (Los Altos, Calif.) and freshman Alex de Chatellus (Tiburon, Calif.) at the No. 3 spot who finished off their Big Red opponents 8-1.

Unfortunately, Xander Centenari (Towson, Md.) was the only Green player to win his first set. He did drop the second set but rallied to dominate the third. Sophomore Mike Laser (Glencoe, Ill.) dropped his first set, but came back strong in the second set, taking it to three. However, serving 5-6 his Cornell opponent came up with a couple of big points to win the match and secure the Cornell's fourth and decisive point.

Today, the Big Green takes on the first place Columbia Lions at 2 p.m. in New York City.

TEAM DUAL MATCH TENNIS SCORE SHEET

    Dartmouth     vs.    Cornell

            Ithaca

    Doubles                                         Winner        Score

1    Freeman    vs.    Gauthier
    Laser        Feldman                      C        8-6

2    Greif    vs.    Jaklitach
    Roby        Klis                              D        8-6

3    de Chatellus    vs.    Bernstein        D
      Ho                                 Fife                8-1

    Singles                 Winner        Score

1    Freeman    vs.    Jaklitsch        C        6-2,6-3
2    Laser    vs.    Gauthier        C        6-1,2-6,7-5
3    Greif    vs.    Feldman        C        6-3, 5-5 (ret)
4    Roby    vs.    Fife        C        6-0,6-2
5    Ho    vs.    Bernstein        C        7-5,6-3
6    Centenari    vs.    Bhandare        D        6-1,2-6,6-1


Dartmouth 5, Cornell 2