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Princeton University Athletics
Update: Tennis' Day to Represent Canada at the World University Games
July 09, 2015 | Men's Tennis
Princeton sophomore tennis player Alex Day will head to South Korea in July to represent Canada at the World University Games.
"It is a great honour to be selected to represent Canada at the 2015 World Summer Universade," Day said. "I look forward to the competition and the opportunity to meet student-athletes from many different universities representing their countries in Gwangju, Korea."
Day, from Vancouver, British Columbia, is a mainstay in the Tigers' lineup, most often playing in the No. 3 singles spot and at either No. 2 or No. 3 doubles.
Day has helped the Tigers to a 19-7 record overall and a No. 36 national ranking by the ITA. He and the Tigers hope to be selected to the NCAA team tournament, a draw that will be revealed Tuesday.
The World University Games will run July 3-14 in Gwangju, South Korea and will feature 21 sports played by more than 12,200 student-athletes from 170 countries.
Update: Day competed in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles events, advancing one round in two of the three. In singles play, he defeated Colombian Sebastian Lopez 6-3, 6-3 to make the Round of 32, where Austrian Patrick Ofner defeated him 6-3, 6-1. In doubles, Day teamed with Penn State's Roman Trkulja, but fell to the Hong Kong pair of Michigan's Kevin Wong and Harvard's Brian Yeung in their opening match, 6-7, 6-0, (10-3). In mixed doubles, Day paired with Jena Halle Chang to get past Jordan's Jenna Hatamleh and Aref Taifour in a walkover before falling to Kai-Chen Chang and Helen-Yin Peng, representing Chinese Taipei, 7-6, 7-5.