Tigers Perfect on First Day at ITA Regional

Thursday, October 19

New Haven, Conn.

All Day

Princeton University

ITA Northeast Regional

Jimmy Wasserman was a winner in both doubles and singles to open play Thursday at the ITA Northeast Regional.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

October 19, 2017 | Men's Tennis

The first day at the ITA Northeast Regional at Yale saw the Princeton men's tennis team go 5 for 5 in winning first-round matches.

Davey Roberts, Jimmy Wasserman and Luke Gamble were all singles winners, advancing to Friday's round of 64, and Roberts and Ben Tso and Wasserman and Kial Kaiser were first-round doubles winners. Kaiser and Wasserman knocked out a Monmouth team of Ale Gomez Estrada and Nicola Pipoli, seeded in the second eight, 8-7.

Ryan Seggerman and Kial Kaiser had first-round byes in singles and Seggerman and Luke Gamble had a first-round bye in doubles and will start play Friday.

Princeton's Thursday results are below and updated draws are available here.

Singles
First Round
Davey Roberts (Princeton) def. Anatoliy Lashkul (Wagner), 6-4, 6-2
Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) def. Satyajit Simhadri (Boston Univ.), 6-4, 5-7, 4-4 ret.
Luke Gamble (Princeton) def. Hamza Laalej (Drexel), 5-7, 6-3, 6-2

Doubles
Davey Roberts/Ben Tso (Princeton) def. Owen Lu/Satyajit Simhadri (Boston Univ.), 8-4
Kial Kaiser/Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) def. Ale Gomez Estrada/Nicola Pipoli (Monmouth), 8-7