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Men's Tennis Plays Well But Falls to No. 20 Harvard, 5-2
April 16, 2004 | Men's Tennis
April 16, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard took the doubles point thanks to wins at Nos. 1 and 3 and won four of six singles matches on the way to a 5-2 victory over Princeton in an Ivy League tennis match Friday afternoon.
Princeton falls to 9-9 on the spring season, 2-2 in Ivy League play.
The 20th-ranked Crimson were pushed by Princeton in the doubles, as the Tigers' No. 2 team of Tim Kofol and Sratha Saengsuwarn earned an 8-4 win. Andrew Lieu and Hans Plukas played well at No. 3 doubles, but fell 8-5 to Chris Chiou and Gideon Valkin.
Princeton would also get a win in singles at No. 3 from Saengsuwarn, who walloped Jack Li by scores of 6-4 and 6-2 to earn his second win of the day. No. 6 Hans Plukas also earned a win for Princeton after the match was clinched, winning a 7-4 tiebreak after splitting two sets than ended in tiebreaks with Harvard's Martin Wetzel. The Tigers face Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., at noon on Saturday.
No. 20 Harvard 5, Princeton 2
April 16, 2004
#1 Singles #36 David Lingman (H), def. Daniel Friedman (P), 6-0, 6-0
#2 Singles #89 Jonathan Chu (H), def. Darius Craton (P), 6-4, 6-3
#3 Singles Sratha Saengsuwarn (P), def. Jack Li (H), 6-4, 6-2
#4 Singles Chris Chiou (H), def. Andrew Lieu (P), 7-5, 6-0
#5 Singles George Turner (H), def. Tim Kofol (P), 7-5, 6-2
#6 Singles Hans Plukas (P) def. Martin Wetzel (H), 6-7(4), 7-6(4), 1-0(4)
#1 Doubles Chu/Brandon Chiu (H), def. Daniel Friedman/Darius Craton (P), 8-4
#2 Doubles Kofol/Saengsuwarn (P), def. Mark Riddell/Lingman (H), 8-4
#3 Doubles Chiou/Gideon Valkin (H), def. Lieu/Plukas (P), 8-5