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Men's Tennis Closes Season with 6-1 Defeat at Columbia
April 18, 2010 | Men's Tennis
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Princeton men's tennis team took the race for the Ivy League title down to the final match, but Columbia prevailed 6-1 in Sunday's season finale in Manhattan.
The Lions avoided having Princeton give Columbia a second loss, which would have forced a shared league crown between at least those two teams. Instead, Columbia finishes 6-1 in the league, a match clear of Cornell and Yale. The Tigers finish at 4-3 in the Ivy, and 8-13 overall, with their first winning league season since 2007.
In Sunday's match, Matija Pecotic provided Princeton's point to trim the Columbia lead to 2-1, but the last four matches, including three that went three sets, went Columbia's way.
(46) Columbia (16-4, 6-1) 6, Princeton (8-13, 4-3) 1
Doubles
1. Nichifor/Wong (C) def. Shoji/Siow (P), 8-5
2. Faust/Pecotic (P) def. Gery/Schneiderman (C), 8-3
3. Deb-Sen/Kung (C) def. Lin/Spindler (P), 8-3
Order of Finish: 3, 1*, 2
Singles
1. Matija Pecotic (P) def. Jonathan Wong (C), 6-3, 6-3
2. Mihai Nichifor (C) def. Charlie Brosens (P), 6-0, 7-6
3. Haig Schneiderman (C) def. Matt Spindler (P), 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
4. Cyril Bucher (C) def. Matt Siow (P), 6-7, 6-4, 7-5
5. Kevin Kung (C) def. Alex Faust (P), 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
6. Nathaniel Gery (C) def. Coleman Crutchfield (P), 6-4, 6-4
Order of Finish: 2, 1, 6, 3*, 5, 4