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Men's Tennis Wins Ivy Opener At Penn, 5-2
March 29, 2008 | Men's Tennis
The Princeton men's tennis team got its Ivy League season off to a rousing start Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia with a 5-2 victory over Penn at the Levy Tennis Pavilion.
The Tigers' No. 1 doubles team of George Carpeni and Alex Krueger-Wyman won the clinching doubles match for Princeton with an 8-6 victory over Penn's Jason Pinsky and Joseph Lok, and each player also earned a key singles win.
Carpeni was dominating in a win over Justin Fox at No. 3 singles, losing just one game in a straight-set win. Krueger-Wyman gained a service break in the first set against Jonathan Boym at No. 2 before closing out Boym 6-3 in the second set for another Princeton win.
Two singles matches went to three sets with the team match still up in the air, and the Tigers got a win in one of them when Peter Capkovic came back from a set down to beat Jason Pinsky 6-4 in the third in a matchup of two of the top players in the Ivy League.
Princeton also got a singles win from Charlie Brosens at No. 6. He beat Adam Schwartz in a tiebreak in the first set before closing out Schwartz 6-3 in the second set.
The second doubles win for the No. 71 Tigers was at No. 3, where senior Mark Gober and freshman Alex Faust beat Schwartz and Justen Roth 8-4.
The Tigers host Brown and Yale next weekend.
No. 71 Princeton 5, Penn 2 Doubles
Levy Tennis Pavilion
Philadelphia, Pa.
1. Krueger-Wyman/Carpeni, Prin, def. Pinsky/Lok, Penn, 8-6
2. Ogara/Riley, Penn, def. Capkovic/Vuckovic, Prin, 8-4
3. Gober/Faust, Prin, def. Schwartz/Roth, Penn, 8-4
Singles
1. Capkovic, Prin, def. Pinsky, Penn, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
2. Krueger-Wyman, Prin, def. Boym, Penn, 6-4, 6-3
3. Carpeni, Prin, def. Fox, Penn, 6-1, 6-0
4. Lok, Penn, def. Kim, Prin, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3
5. Riley, Penn, def. Vuckovic, Prin, 6-4, 6-4
6. Brosens, Prin, def. Schwartz, Penn, 7-6, 6-3