HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth women's tennis ended its first weekend of home Ivy League matches with a 4-1 loss to Penn at the Thompson Outdoor Tennis Courts on Sunday afternoon.
The Big Green are now 3-14 and 0-3 in conference action, while the Quakers improved to 12-5 and 1-2.
Penn won the first point of the day following a 6-3 victory at No. 1 doubles and a 6-4 win on court two. Playing at the No. 3 spot, senior
Allison Chuang and freshman
Nina Paripovic were neck and neck with Ashley Zhu and Carolyn Xie and were tied at 4-4 when the point was won.
The Quakers added one more point at No. 5 singles before freshman
Jingyi Peng defeated Jennifer Richards, 6-2, 6-2 on court six, giving Dartmouth its only point of the match. Penn victories at the No. 4 and 2 spots clinched the win for the visitors.
Next weekend, the Green will be home on Friday, April 12 to host Brown before hitting the road two days later to take on Yale.
1) No. 47 Kowalska/Curnicc (Penn) def. Chiu/Conard (Dartmouth), 6-3
2) Bryzgalova/Singh (Penn) def. Lyn/Peng (Dartmouth), 6-4
3) Xie/Zhu (Penn) vs. Paripovic/Chuang (Dartmouth), 4-4, DNF
Order of finish: 1,2
1) No. 92 Bryzgalova (Penn) vs. Lyn (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-6, DNF
2) Kowalska (Penn) def. Chiu (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-1
3) Curnic (Penn) vs. Paripovic (Dartmouth), 6-3, 4-6, 0-1, DNF
4) Zhu (Penn) def. Conard (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-3
5) Singh (Penn) def. Guan (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-2
6) Peng (Dartmouth) def. Richards (Penn), 6-2, 6-2
Order of finish: 5,6,4,2