Dartmouth Goes Down to the Wire With Yale

Saturday, February 18

Hanover, N.H.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Yale

Hikaru Takeda men's tennis action versus Fordham

Hikaru Takeda ’25

Photo by: Doug Austin

2/18/2023 7:43:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

The No. 6 singles match was the deciding factor in Saturday’s ECAC Championship action

By: Kyle Relf

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth men's tennis team dropped a neck-and-neck 4-3 decision to Yale on Saturday afternoon in the second day of the ECAC Championship at Boss Tennis Center.

The Big Green earned the doubles point, but Yale stormed back to seal the win with four singles victories. The Ivy League foes were tied 3-3 when the match came down to No. 6 singles, where Yale's Walker Oberg edged Dartmouth's Alex Knox-Jones in a three-set nail biter.

Dartmouth clinched the doubles point with a win at the No. 1 position as the freshman duo of Waleed Qadir and Miles Groom improved to a 6-1 record on the top court. Hikaru Takeda and Carlos Guerrero Alvarez rolled to a 6-3 win at the No. 3 spot before Knox-Jones and Logan Chang were edged in a closely contested 7-5 decision.

Henry Ren, still unbeaten in singles this season, stayed hot win a two-set win on Court 4. Takeda represented Dartmouth's additional singles triumph at the No. 5 position.

Sunday marks the final day of the ECAC Championship and the Big Green are set to face Brown at 9 a.m. at Alexis Boss Tennis Center.

Miles Groom/Waleed Quadir (Dartmouth) def. Vignesh Gogineni/Renaud Lefevre (Yale) 7-6(7-3)
Aidan Reilly/Theo Dean (Yale) def. Alex Knox-Jones/Logan Chang (Dartmouth) 7-5
Hikaru Takeda/Carlos Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth) def. Michael Sun/Shervin Dehmoubed (Yale) 6-3

Theo Dean (Yale) def. Carlos Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth) 6-3, 6-1
Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) def. Miles Groom (Dartmouth) 6-1, 6-2
Luke Neal (Yale) def. Waleed Quadir (Dartmouth) 6-1, 6-4
Henry Ren (Dartmouth) def. Michael Sun 7-5, 6-4
Hikaru Takeda (Dartmouth) def. Aidan Reilly (Yale) 6-2, 0-6, 6-4
Walker Oberg (Yale) def. Alex Knox-Jones (Dartmouth) 6-1, 2-6, 6-4