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Women's Tennis Advances to Sunday at ECAC, Tops Cornell
February 06, 2016 | Women's Tennis
Looking to bounce back from Friday's ECAC Championship first-round defeat against Harvard, Princeton earned the chance to advance to Sunday's consolation final with a 4-1 win over Cornell Saturday morning in New Hampshire.
With seven teams in the bracket, the loser of Saturday's Princeton-Cornell match would wrap its ECAC participation, but the Tigers will continue Sunday at 9 a.m. against Yale.
Princeton rebounded from a doubles-point loss to take the first four singles contests to be decided, with Caroline Joyce winning in both singles and doubles. Her match tied the team score at 1-1, with wins from Katrine Steffensen, Amanda Muliawan and finally Emily Hahn clinching the match.
Muliawan knocked off 74th-ranked Marika Cusick in her win at first singles, her first victory of the spring over a ranked opponent in three tries. She had two wins over ITA-ranked opponents in six tries in the fall.
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(43) Princeton (3-3) vs. Cornell (2-3) Feb. 6, 2016 • Hanover, N.H. |
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Doubles
| 1 | Kalhorn/Steffensen (P) | |
Cusick/D'Ascenzo (C) | 6-4 |
| 2 | Hahn/Muliawan (P) | |
Shah/L. Stewart (C) | 6-3 |
| 3 | Joyce/Dorothy Tang (P) | |
Mariko Iinuma/Stevens (C) | 6-2 |
Singles
| 1 | Amanda Muliawan (P) | |
(74) Marika Cusick (C) | 6-3, 6-3 |
| 2 | (87) Katrine Steffensen (P) | |
Alexandra D'Ascenzo (C) | 6-1, 6-4 |
| 3 | Nicole Kalhorn (P) | DNF | Lizzie Stewart (C) | 7-6(3), 3-3 P |
| 4 | Sivan Krems (P) | DNF | Jane Stewart (C) | 6-3, 3-6, 2-1 C |
| 5 | Caroline Joyce (P) | |
Priyanka Shah (C) | 6-1, 6-4 |
| 6 | Emily Hahn (P) | |
Madison Stevens (C) | 6-2, 7-6 |
| Match notes: The Tigers improved to 3-0 all-time against the Big Red in ECAC tournaments along with wins in 2012 and 2015 ... the Tigers extended their overall win streak against the Big Red to 22 matches, a streak that dates back to 1997. |
| Order of finish: Doubles: 3,1,2; Singles: 2,5,1,6 |
ITA rankings in parentheses