Fourth-Seeded Women's Tennis Blanks Top-Seed Princeton, 4-0

Saturday, February 7

Ithaca, N.Y.

9:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Princeton

Fourth-Seeded Women's Tennis Blanks Top-Seed Princeton, 4-0

2/7/2015 12:35:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

ITHACA, N.Y. – No. 4 seed Dartmouth women's tennis knocked off No. 1 Princeton in a stunning 4-0 shutout in the first semifinal of the ECAC Women's Tennis Championship on Saturday morning. The No. 62 Big Green are now 7-0 on the season, while the No. 54 Tigers have yet to win a match with a 0-5 record.

Senior Akiko Okuda and freshman Julia Schroeder got things started with a 6-3 victory over Joan Cannon and Caroline Joyce at No. 3. At No. 1, sophomore Taylor Ng and freshman Kristina Mathis defeated Lindsay Graff and Katrine Steffensen by a score of 6-3 to secure the doubles point.

Schroeder defeated Sivan Krems, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6, while junior Katherine Yau had a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Amanda Muliawan at No. 2. It was Ng's 6-4, 6-3 win over Graff at No. 1 that complete the shutout.

Dartmouth will play No. 2 seed Columbia in the final of the tournament at 12 p.m. on Sunday. The Lions are ranked 39th in the country.

#1 – Ng and Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Graff and Steffensen (Princeton), 6-3
#2 – Muliawan and Tang (Princeton) def. Yau and Kiven (Dartmouth), 6-1
#3 – Okuda and Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Cannon and Joyce (Princeton), 6-3

#1 – Ng (Dartmouth) def. Graff (Princeton), 6-4, 6-3
#2 – Yau (Dartmouth) def. Muliawan (Princeton), 6-4, 6-4
#3 – Mathis (Dartmouth) vs. Wolff (Princeton), 7-5, 5-5, DNF
#4 – Crawford (Dartmouth) vs. Steffensen (Princeton), 3-6, 6-2, 1-1, DNF
#5 – Okuda (Dartmouth) vs. Hahn (Princeton), 4-6, 6-2, 3-2, DNF
#6 – Schroeder (Dartmouth) def. Krems (Princeton), 6-2, 6-2