HANOVER, N.H. – Having been away from home for 40 days, Dartmouth men's tennis will be back at the Boss Tennis Center this weekend to host No. 42 Penn and No. 39 Princeton.
The Big Green are 8-9 overall and 0-3 in Ivy League play after having recently fallen to No. 15 Harvard, No. 58 Cornell and No. 23 Columbia. Against the Big Red on Saturday,
Andy Ilie and
Logan Chang had a win at No. 3 doubles, while
Alex Knox-Jones defeated his opponent on court three in singles.
The Quakers are 16-4 and 3-0 in conference action and are tied for first in the league with Harvard. Penn is on a seven-match winning streak after blanking Princeton and Brown and taking Yale down, 5-2.
The Tigers enter Sunday's match with a 16-6 mark and are 2-1 in Ivy League action. Princeton is 8-1 since March 5, the loss to Penn being the Tigers' first since Feb. 26.
After this weekend, Dartmouth has just two more matches to go: at Yale on April 22 and at home against Brown two days later.