Dartmouth Plays Well on Day One of Home Invitational

Friday, October 7

Hanover, N.H.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Day One

Dartmouth Plays Well on Day One of Home Invitational

10/7/2016 9:38:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – The Big Green men's tennis team went 6-2 in singles action on the first day of the Dartmouth Invitational on Friday.

The tournament, which is the team's only home event for the next three month, features players from Amherst, Binghamton, Brown and Yale and will be played over the course of three days.

Dartmouth won all four of its first round matches in the opening two draws. In draw one, junior Max Fliegner defeated Brown's Charles Tan (6-1, 7-5), while freshman David Horneffer had a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Tiago Lourenco of Binghamton. In the second draw, senior Diego Pedraza took down Brown's Jacob Walker (6-4, 6-4) and classmate Max Schmidt had a 6-4, 6-4 win over Oscar Burney.

In draw three, sophomore Eddie Grabill faced Lucas Da Silviera, with the Big Green player winning the first set, 6-2, and leading the second set, 5-4, before the match was retired. Sophomore Joey Haig added one last victory for Dartmouth in draw five with his 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Binghamton's Sebastian Quiros.

Day two of the Dartmouth Invitational will start at 9 a.m.

Draw 1:
Fliegner (DART) def. Tan (Brown), 6-1, 7-5
Doehler (Yale) def. Marchalik (Amherst), 6-0, 6-1
Z. Wang (Yale) def. Sandberg (Brown), 6-3, 6-0
Horneffer (DART) def. Lourenco (Bing), 6-2, 6-4

Draw 2:
Cestarollo (Bing) def. Heller (Yale), 6-2, 6-1
Pedraza (DART) def. Walker (Brown), 6-4, 6-4
Schmidt (DART) def. Burney (Amherst), 6-4, 6-4
Caputo (Bing) def. Andrienko (Yale), 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-2

Draw 3:
Cheng (Yale) def. Glasnovic (DART), 6-2, 7-6 (6)
Bessette (Amherst) def. Bouchet (Bing) , 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
Hagermoser (Yale) def. Sun (Amherst), 6-4, 6-4
Grabill (DART) def. Da Silviera (Brown), 6-2, 5-4 (ret.)

Draw 4:
N. Brown (Yale) def. Fung (Amherst), 6-3, 6-3
Nath (Bing) def. Midgley (DART), 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
Photiades (Yale) def. Druger (Bing), 1-6, 6-2, 6-4
Arocho (Brown) def. Kaplan (Amherst), 7-5, 6-3

Draw 5:
Paridis (Amherst) def. Adams (Yale), 6-1, 6-2
Haig (DART) def. Quiros (Bing), 6-3, 6-4
D. Wang (Yale) def. Mitak (Brown), 7-5, 6-3
Saez (Bing) def. Levitin (Amherst), 6-4, 6-7, 6-1