Friday, April 14
Princeton, N.J.
2:00 PM
Princeton University
4
vs
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Yale
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Katrine Steffensen had the clinching win Friday against Yale.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Steffensen's Win Caps 4-3 Women's Tennis Victory Over Yale
April 14, 2017 | Women's Tennis
Katrine Steffensen battled back from a first-set loss and won the last match on court to pick up the fourth point for the Princeton women's tennis team and deliver a 4-3 victory for the Tigers as the race for the Ivy League title continues.
The three-time defending league champion Tigers are now alone in second place in the Ivy at 3-1, one match behind next Saturday's opponent, Harvard. This Saturday at 2 p.m. back at the Lenz Tennis Center, Princeton will host Brown, which fell Friday to Penn, 5-2, to move to 2-2 in the Ivy.
Princeton opened the afternoon with a doubles-point win, with Caroline Joyce and Nicole Kalhorn, ranked 87th nationally, picking up a 6-1 win at first and Gaby Pollner and Sivan Krems sealing the point with a 6-3 win at second.
Kalhorn won the first singles match to wrap, taking court four in straight sets, and Pollner followed with another straight-set win at sixth to put Princeton just a point away from the win. But the fourth point didn't come easily. Yale pulled even with a straight-set win at second before recovering from first-set losses at fifth and third singles to tie the match at 3-3.
Steffensen, who lost her first set 6-2, won the last two frames 6-2 and 6-4 to clinch it and keep the Tigers on pace in the league.
Saturday's match is free admission and the team will have live updates on Twitter at @PrincetonTennis.
Order of finish: Doubles: 1, 2; Singles: 4, 6, 2, 5, 3, 1
The three-time defending league champion Tigers are now alone in second place in the Ivy at 3-1, one match behind next Saturday's opponent, Harvard. This Saturday at 2 p.m. back at the Lenz Tennis Center, Princeton will host Brown, which fell Friday to Penn, 5-2, to move to 2-2 in the Ivy.
Princeton opened the afternoon with a doubles-point win, with Caroline Joyce and Nicole Kalhorn, ranked 87th nationally, picking up a 6-1 win at first and Gaby Pollner and Sivan Krems sealing the point with a 6-3 win at second.
Kalhorn won the first singles match to wrap, taking court four in straight sets, and Pollner followed with another straight-set win at sixth to put Princeton just a point away from the win. But the fourth point didn't come easily. Yale pulled even with a straight-set win at second before recovering from first-set losses at fifth and third singles to tie the match at 3-3.
Steffensen, who lost her first set 6-2, won the last two frames 6-2 and 6-4 to clinch it and keep the Tigers on pace in the league.
Saturday's match is free admission and the team will have live updates on Twitter at @PrincetonTennis.
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| 1st Singles | |
| Katrine Steffensen (Princeton) def. Carol Finke (Yale) | 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 |
| 2nd Singles | |
| Amy Yang (Yale) def. Tiffany Chen (Princeton) | 6-2, 6-1 |
| 3rd Singles | |
| Valerie Shklover (Yale) def. Caroline Joyce (Princeton) | 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 |
| 4th Singles | |
| Nicole Kalhorn (Princeton) def. Tina Jiang (Yale) | 6-1, 6-2 |
| 5th Singles | |
| Elizabeth Zordani (Yale) def. Clare McKee (Princeton) | 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 |
| 6th Singles | |
| Gaby Pollner (Princeton) def. Caroline Lynch (Yale) | 6-2, 6-1 |
| 1st Doubles | |
| (87) Joyce/Kalhorn (Princeton) def. Jiang/Zordani (Yale) | 6-1 |
| 2nd Doubles | |
| Sivan Krems/Pollner (Princeton) def. Finke/Shklover (Yale) | 6-3 |
| 3rd Doubles | |
| McKee/Steffensen (Princeton) vs. Lynch/Yang (Yale) | 5-3 P DNF |
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