No. 42 Dartmouth Ends Spring Break with Memphis Win

Thursday, March 24

Memphis, Tenn.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Memphis

No. 42 Dartmouth Ends Spring Break with Memphis Win

3/24/2016 6:33:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – No. 42 Dartmouth men's tennis wrapped up its five-match Spring Break trip on a strong note, defeating No. 33 Memphis, 4-0, at the Racquet Club of Memphis on Thursday. The Big Green improved to 12-7, while the Tigers fell to 9-8.

Dartmouth switched doubles teams up a little bit and won at the No. 1 and 3 positions to take the first point. At No. 1, senior Brendan Tannenbaum and junior George Wall defeated Kai Lemke and Louis Asser, 6-4, and, at No. 3, senior Dovydas Sakinis and sophomore Max Fliegner had a 6-4 victory over Andrew Watson and Shakeel Manji.

At the No. 2 position, junior Max Schmidt and freshman Roko Glasnovic were leading Ryan Peniston and Felix Rauch, 5-4, when the match went unfinished.

In singles play, freshman Eddie Grabill gave the Green its next point, taking down Manji, 6-1, 6-2, at No. 6, while Fliegner made it 3-0 with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Chris Patzanovsky at the No. 4 position. Wall clinched the match in three sets at the No. 3 position, winning the first against Lemke, 6-2, and dropping the second, 6-3. The Dartmouth junior took the third set, 6-3, to end the match.

The Big Green will open Ivy League play over the weekend, facing Columbia at 1 p.m. on Saturday before taking on Cornell at the same time on Sunday.

1 – Wall/Tannenbaum (Dartmouth) def. Lemke/Asser (Memphis), 6-4|
2 – Schmidt/Glasnovic (Dartmouth) vs. Peniston/Rauch (Memphis), 5-4
3 – Fliegner/Sakinis (Dartmouth) def. Watson/Manji (Memphis), 6-4

1 – Sakinis (Dartmouth) vs. Watson (Memphis), 6-7, 6-1, 0-1, DNF
2 – Peniston (Memphis) vs. Riccardi (Dartmouth), 7-6, 4-1, DNF
3 – Wall (Dartmouth) def. Lemke (Memphis), 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
4 – Fliegner (Dartmouth) def. Patzanovsky (Memphis), 6-4, 6-2
5 – Schmidt (Dartmouth) vs. Rauch (Memphis), 6-7, 5-0, 0-1, DNF
6 – Grabill (Dartmouth) def. Manji (Memphis), 6-1, 6-2