No. 37 Women's Tennis Fights to Defeat Penn, 4-3

Sunday, April 12

Hanover, N.H.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

PENN

No. 37 Women's Tennis Fights to Defeat Penn, 4-3

4/12/2015 9:22:00 PM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. - Sophomore Taylor Ng clinched the deciding match for the No. 37 Dartmouth women's tennis team as the Big Green won 4-3 on Sunday against a Penn squad that was coming off a win over Harvard yesterday.

Dartmouth improves to 15-5 and 2-2 in Ivy League play, while Penn moves to 8-8 and 1-4 in conference action.

Playing on the Boss outdoor courts, Dartmouth won the doubles point thanks to victories at No. 1 from Ng and freshman Kristina Mathis and at No. 3 from the freshmen tandem of Julia Schroeder and Lexxi Kiven.

The Big Green carried that momentum into singles as junior co-captain Katherine Yau won easily at No. 2 and Mathis also won in straight sets at No. 3. But the Quakers battled back, taking the No. 4, 5, and 6 singles matches.

This left Ng on the court, engaged in a knock-down, drag-out fight with Penn's top player, Sol Eskenazi. Ng won the first set in a tiebreak and then Eskenazi, the 2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a three-time First Team All-Ivy singles and doubles player, came back to win the second set 7-6.

Playing exquisite all-court tennis, the two traded leads throughout the third set, but Ng finally prevailed on her fifth match point, winning a third set tiebreak 7-5 to take the match and clinch victory for the Big Green. To see a video of Ng's match point, click here.

Dartmouth returns to action at home on Friday at 2 p.m. for Senior Day against Brown.

#1 – Ng/Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Eskenazi/Latycheva (Penn), 8-3
#2 – Yau/Okuda (Dartmouth) vs. Daniel/Vaidya (Penn), 5-6, DNF
#3 – Schroeder/Kiven (Dartmouth) def. Vazhenina/Qostal (Penn), 8-5

#1 – No. 79 Ng (Dartmouth) def. Eskenazi (Penn), 7-6,6-7,7-6 (5)
#2 – Yau (Dartmouth) def. Daniel (Penn), 6-0,6-3
#3 – Mathis (Dartmouth) def. Latycheva (Penn), 6-3,6-1
#4 – Qostal (Penn) def. Crawford (Dartmouth), 6-4,6-2
#5 – Vaidya (Penn) def. Okuda (Dartmouth), 6-1,6-0
#6 – Ion (Penn) def. Schroeder (Dartmouth), 6-2,6-4