Three Tigers Advance to Singles Quarters at Farnsworth

Friday, October 6

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Farnsworth Invitational

Kabir Sarita was one of three Tigers to advance to the quarterfinals Friday at the Farnsworth Invitational.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Three Tigers Advance to Singles Quarters at Farnsworth

October 06, 2017 | Men's Tennis

Senior Diego Vives, junior Jimmy Wasserman and freshman Kabir Sarita all won their way into their flight's quarterfinals after wins Friday on the first day of the Farnsworth Invitational at the Lenz Tennis Center.

Vives had a bye and won his quarterfinal match to set up a quarterfinal in the B draw Saturday against Marist's Lars Schouten, while Sarita did the same to head into a quarterfinal in the C draw against Temple's Mark Wallner. Wasserman won twice to make the quarters in the B draw against NJIT's Aleksa Petrovic.

Both of Princeton's doubles teams won their opening matches to advance to the quarters, with Sarita and Vives set to meet Youssef Lahlou and Hazma Laalej of Drexel in the B draw and freshman Noah Agarwal and Wasserman meeting Weston Branch and Aleksandr Samets of Middlebury in the C quarters.

Doubles play will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday for two rounds with two rounds of singles set to begin at 10:30 a.m.

Updated draws are available here.

Singles
Round of 32
B Draw
Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) def. Timo van der Guest (Middlebury), 6-2, 6-1
D Draw
Noah Agarwal (Princeton) def. William Cooke Wharton (Monmouth), 6-4, 6-4
Round of 16
B Draw
Diego Vives (Princeton) def. Sergio Martinez (Monmouth), 6-2, 6-0
Wasserman (Princeton) def. Gianlucca Massa (Marist), 6-1, 7-6(8)
C Draw
Kabir Sarita (Princeton) def. Dylan Karchere-Sun (Lehigh), 6-2, 6-4
D Draw
Bryant Born (Lehigh) def. Agarwal (Princeton), 6-2, 6-7(5), (10-2)

Doubles
Round of 16
B Draw
Kabir Sarita/Diego Vives (Princeton) def. Noah Farrell/Peter Martin (Middlebury), 8-7
C Draw
Noah Agarwal/Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) def. Maciej Autuch/Andris Gudins (FDU), 8-1