No. 47 Men's Tennis Downs Yale, 5-2, at Home Sunday

Sunday, April 19

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

YALE

No. 47 Men's Tennis Downs Yale, 5-2, at Home Sunday

4/19/2015 6:58:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – The No. 47 Dartmouth men's tennis team won its fourth straight match on Sunday afternoon with a 5-2 victory over Yale at the Boss Tennis Center outdoor courts.

The Big Green improved to 13-10 overall and 4-2 in Ivy League play, while the Bulldogs fell to 11-11 and 1-5 in conference action.

Although sophomore George Wall and junior Brendan Tannenbaum had a 6-0 win over Alex Hagermoser and Tyler Lu at the No. 3 doubles, the Bulldogs picked up victories at the other two positions to get an early 1-0 advantage.

Yale's lead was short-lived, as Dartmouth won five straight singles matches to end the day with a victory. Senior Chris Kipouras defeated Stefan Doehler, 6-3, 6-0, at the No. 2 position, while Wall had a 6-2, 6-3 win over Fedor Andrienko at No. 5.

Junior Dovydas Sakinis downed Tyler Lu at the No. 1 singles, 6-2, 6-4, while sophomore Diego Pedraza had a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Daniel Faierman at No. 4. At the No. 3 position, freshman Ciro Riccardi took down Ziqi Wang, 7-6, 6-4.

Dartmouth will host Harvard at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 25. The Green will honor seniors Kipouras and Sam Todd at the final match of the season.

#1 – Doehler and Andrienko (Yale) def. Sakinis and Kipouras (Dartmouth), 6-1
#2 – Faierman and Svenning (Yale) def. Schmidt and Pedraza (Dartmouth), 6-4
#3 – Wall and Tannenbaum (Dartmouth) def. Hagermoser and Lu (Yale), 6-0

#1 – Sakinis (Dartmouth) def. Lu (Yale), 6-2, 6-4
#2 – Kipouras (Dartmouth) def. Doehler (Yale), 6-3, 6-0
#3 – Riccardi (Dartmouth) def. Wang (Yale), 7-6, 6-4
#4 – Pedraza (Dartmouth) def. Faierman (Yale), 7-5, 6-4
#5 – Wall (Dartmouth) def. Andrienko (Yale), 6-2, 6-3
#6 – Photiades (Yale) def. Schmidt (Dartmouth), 6-4, 3-6, 6-1