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Women's Tennis Keeps Ivy Title Hopes Alive, Notches Win Over Columbia
April 15, 2016 | Women's Tennis
Post-match Video with Sivan Krems
The first of two must-win matches for the Princeton women's tennis team in order for the Tigers to keep their Ivy League title hopes alive went Princeton's way Friday afternoon as the 50th-ranked Tigers knocked off No. 34 Columbia 4-3 at the Lenz Tennis Center.
The win, coupled with Cornell's win over Penn and Harvard's win over Yale, leave the Tigers, Columbia and Cornell as the only two-loss teams in the league. A win Sunday at Cornell (10 a.m. start) will clinch a share of the Ivy title.
The win represented the third-highest ranked opponent Princeton has defeated in Laura Granville's three-plus seasons leading the program, behind No. 25 Arizona State in the first round of the 2014 NCAA tournament and No. 31 Long Beach State on the spring trip last season.
Princeton began Friday with a doubles-point win, taking the first two matches to end, but Columbia responded by taking the first two singles matches to end to grab a 2-1 lead. Katrine Steffensen had a win on court two to tie it at 2-2, and the teams split the next two matches to finish, with Alanna Wolff's win on court six briefly putting Princeton ahead 3-2. Once Columbia picked up a win on court five, the match came down to Sivan Krems, who finished a 7-5, 7-5 win over Columbia's Star Makarome to get the fourth point.
The first of two must-win matches for the Princeton women's tennis team in order for the Tigers to keep their Ivy League title hopes alive went Princeton's way Friday afternoon as the 50th-ranked Tigers knocked off No. 34 Columbia 4-3 at the Lenz Tennis Center.
The win, coupled with Cornell's win over Penn and Harvard's win over Yale, leave the Tigers, Columbia and Cornell as the only two-loss teams in the league. A win Sunday at Cornell (10 a.m. start) will clinch a share of the Ivy title.
The win represented the third-highest ranked opponent Princeton has defeated in Laura Granville's three-plus seasons leading the program, behind No. 25 Arizona State in the first round of the 2014 NCAA tournament and No. 31 Long Beach State on the spring trip last season.
Princeton began Friday with a doubles-point win, taking the first two matches to end, but Columbia responded by taking the first two singles matches to end to grab a 2-1 lead. Katrine Steffensen had a win on court two to tie it at 2-2, and the teams split the next two matches to finish, with Alanna Wolff's win on court six briefly putting Princeton ahead 3-2. Once Columbia picked up a win on court five, the match came down to Sivan Krems, who finished a 7-5, 7-5 win over Columbia's Star Makarome to get the fourth point.
#34 (14-6, 4-2 Ivy)
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#50 (12-9, 4-2 Ivy)
| Doubles | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asatrian/Solovyev (Columbia) | 4 |
| Muliawan/Dorothy Tang (Princeton) | 4 | |
| DNF | ||
| 2 | Adi Milstein/Vaidya (Columbia) | 4 |
| Joyce/Kalhorn (Princeton) | 6 | |
| 3 | Kevakian/Makarome (Columbia) | 2 |
| Emily Hahn/Catalina Vives (Princeton) | 6 | |
| Singles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (36) Kanika Vaidya (Columbia) | 6 | 6 | |
| Amanda Muliawan (Princeton) | 2 | 3 | ||
| 2 | Rima Asatrian (Columbia) | 3 | 3 | |
| Katrine Steffensen (Princeton) | 6 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Star Makarone (Columbia) | 5 | 5 | |
| Sivan Krems (Princeton) | 7 | 7 | ||
| 4 | Alexandra Solovyev (Columbia) | 6 | 6 | |
| Caroline Joyce (Princeton) | 4 | 2 | ||
| 5 | Andrea Kevakian (Columbia) | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Nicole Kalhorn (Princeton) | 6 | 4 | 1 | |
| 6 | Sarah Hu (Columbia) | 3 | 1 | |
| Alanna Wolff (Princeton) | 6 | 6 | ||
ITA rankings in parentheses • Order of finish: Doubles: 3,2; Singles: 4,1,6,2,5,3
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