HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth men's tennis fell to No. 42 Penn, 6-1, at the Boss Tennis Center on Saturday.
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"First of all, it's great to be playing at the Boss Tennis Center on our home courts,"
Xander Centenari '13, the John Kenfield and
Chuck Kinyon Head Coach of Men's Tennis, said. "This was our first conference home match since 2019. The guys brought great energy today and a lot of fight but came up a bit short. We have to keep working on managing adversity a bit better and staying in an optimal mindset when things don't go our way. It was great for us to get a win at No. 6 and get into a third set on court five. We're excited to keep learning from this match and this season, and to go out and compete hard tomorrow for another great opportunity."
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Dartmouth (8-10, 0-4) vs. Penn (17-4, 4-0)
Quaker victories at the No. 3 and 1 doubles gave them the first point of the afternoon. On court two,
Pierce Widdecombe and
Alex Knox-Jones were up, 5-2, when the match went unfinished.
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Penn wins on five singles courts gave the visitors the victory.
Daniel Webb won a three-setter at the No. 6 position to officially end the match.
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The Big Green will host No. 39 Princeton at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
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1)Â Graziani/Zhu (Penn) def. Gibbons/Pauli (Dartmouth), 6-3
2)Â Widdecombe/Knox-Jones (Dartmouth) vs. Hildebrandt/Sai (Penn), 5-2, DNF
3) Gupta/Parikh (Penn) def. Chang/Webb (Dartmouth), 6-1
Order of finish: 3,1
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1)Â Graziani (Penn) def. Gibbons (Dartmouth), 6-3, 7-5
2)Â Hildebrandt (Penn) def. Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth), 7-6(5), 6-3
3) Gupta (Penn) def. Pauli (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-3
4) Zhu (Penn) def. Knox-Jones (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-0
5)Â Parikh (Penn) def. Widdecombe (Dartmouth), 6-3, 3-6, 3-4, ret.
6) Webb (Dartmouth) def. Sai (Penn), 2-6, 7-6(8), 6-1
Order of finish: 3,4,1,5,2,6