Princeton University
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San Diego Tops Men's Tennis
March 20, 2015 | Men's Tennis
No. 32 Princeton's bid to advance to the final of the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic came up short Friday afternoon with co-host No. 30 San Diego sweeping Princeton 4-0.
The doubles point came down to a tiebreaker on court one between a pair of ranked opponents, No. 41 Filip Vittek and Jordan Angus for the Toreros and No. 56 Thomas Colautti and Zack McCourt for the Tigers, with the USD team taking both that match and the point with a 7-3 win in the breaker.
USD kept on rolling through singles play, with wins on court three, five and two to clinch the match and end the afternoon.
Princeton will play a consolation match against No. 22 Harvard, which lost to No. 33 Drake 4-3 earlier Friday, Saturday at 1 p.m. ET at USD. The Ivy rivals have already met once this season, with Harvard winning 4-2 on Feb. 15 in the ECAC semifinals to give Princeton its first loss of the spring.
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(32) Princeton (14-4) vs. (30) San Diego (11-4) Mar. 20, 2015 • San Diego, Calif. |
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Doubles
| 1 | (56) Colautti/McCourt (P) | |
(41) Angus/Vittek (SD) | 7-6(3) |
| 2 | Luke Gamble/Diego Vives (P) | |
Kalaydjian/Petronijevic (SD) | 6-1 |
| 3 | Day/Ben Tso (P) | |
Fitzgerald/Fosso (SD) | 6-1 |
Singles
| 1 | (119) Zack McCourt (P) | DNF | (58) Uros Petronijevic (SD) | 6-4, 4-6 SD |
| 2 | Tom Colautti (P) | |
(81) Filip Vittek (SD) | 6-1, 7-6(2) |
| 3 | Alex Day (P) | |
Jordan Angus (SD) | 6-2, 6-2 |
| 4 | Josh Yablon (P) | DNF | Romain Kalaydjian (SD) | 7-5, 5-4 SD |
| 5 | Kial Kaiser (P) | |
Geoffrey Fosso (SD) | 6-3, 6-2 |
| 6 | Dan Richardson (P) | DNF | Ciaran Fitzgerald (SD) | 7-6(1), 1-0 SD |
| Next match: vs. (22) Harvard, Saturday, March 21, 1 p.m. ET at USD |
| Match notes: USD now leads the all-time series 9-3 with the last meeting coming in 2009 ... this was Princeton's 10th match against a ranked opponent in 18 matches overall this spring, and the Tigers now have a 6-4 record in those matches |
| Order of finish: Doubles: 3,2,1; Singles: 3,5,2 |
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Coach Billy Pate on the matches: "USD played a great match and really used the doubles point to get the edge and run with it. We had a great opportunity to get the doubles by having a match point at 5-3 and then serving for it and at 5-4 in the No. 1 position. We really struggled to gain a foothold in any singles match early and just simly didn't execute. We're disappointed in that, but we'll bounce back and be ready for Harvard tomorrow." |