No. 36 Dartmouth Plays Final Home Match of 2016

HANOVER, N.H. – No. 36 Dartmouth men's tennis will play one match at home and one on the road this weekend. On Friday, the Big Green will host Brown at 3 p.m., during which the team's two seniors – Brendan Tannenbaum and Dovydas Sakinis – will be playing at the Boss Tennis Center for the last time. On Sunday, Dartmouth will head to Connecticut to face Yale at 1 p.m.

The Green (15-8, 3-1 Ivy League) moved up another two spots in the ITA National Rankings after a 2-0 weekend against conference opponents at home. Against No. 37 Princeton on Saturday, Dartmouth worked its way back from a 2-1 deficit to win the match, 4-2. The following day against Penn, the home team shut the match down swiftly, defeating the Quakers by a score of 4-0. Throughout the weekend, Sakinis and sophomore Max Fliegner both had two singles and one doubles victory. Sakinis remains in the national rankings for singles play, moving up from No. 90 last week to 81 this week. In doubles, junior George Wall and Tannenbaum sit at No. 70. Dartmouth is second in the Ivy standings, sitting behind Columbia in first with a perfect 5-0 record.

Brown (8-16, 0-4 Ivy League) has struggled this season and is currently tied with Yale for last place in the conference standings. The Bears have dropped six straight matches and their last victory was a 4-1 defeat of Louisiana at Lafayette on March 28. Brown put up a fight against Penn, but ultimately ended up falling, 4-3.

Yale (12-10, 0-4 Ivy League) had a good non-conference season, going undefeated through seven matches that spanned almost a month, but Ivy play has not been quite so kind to the Bulldogs. All four of their matches have been relatively close, but the other team has always been able to run away with the win before Yale can make a comeback. Most recently against Cornell, all but one of the singles matches went to three sets.

Dartmouth's final regular-season match will take place on Saturday, April 23, at Harvard.

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