Saturday, March 17
State College, Pa.
12:00 PM
Princeton University
at
Penn State
Sophomore Davey Roberts and the Tigers will head to Penn State Saturday.
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Riding a seven-match winning streak, the ITA 42nd-ranked Princeton men's tennis team will head to 48th-ranked Penn State for a noon match Saturday in its final contest before the spring trip to Florida.
Sophomore Davey Roberts has won his last seven dual-match contests, co-leading the team with nine singles wins alongside senior Luke Gamble, who has won his last six.
Princeton is 21-8 all-time against Penn State with the last meeting coming in 2016 in Jadwin Gym, a 6-1 Princeton win. The teams last met in State College in 2015, a 4-3 Nittany Lions win, and Penn State has won the last three against Princeton on its home court, in 2010, 2012 and 2015, since the Tigers' last win there in 1995. Constant De La Bassetiere is the lone player in the ITA individual rankings for either team, checking in at No. 94 on the singles list.
Penn State stands 8-6 coming into the match, and the Tigers will be the Nittany Lions' third Ivy League opponent of the season after a 4-2 loss at Cornell on Feb. 11 and a 4-2 loss at Penn last weekend. Both teams have beaten Buffalo and Temple, and the Tigers have a win over Cornell from the ECAC Championship last month, among opponents both teams have faced. Penn State will be Princeton's second Big Ten opponent of the season after Michigan State, which the Tigers beat 5-2 to open the season on Jan. 28 and which will head to Penn State Sunday.
Riding a seven-match winning streak, the ITA 42nd-ranked Princeton men's tennis team will head to 48th-ranked Penn State for a noon match Saturday in its final contest before the spring trip to Florida.
Sophomore Davey Roberts has won his last seven dual-match contests, co-leading the team with nine singles wins alongside senior Luke Gamble, who has won his last six.
Princeton is 21-8 all-time against Penn State with the last meeting coming in 2016 in Jadwin Gym, a 6-1 Princeton win. The teams last met in State College in 2015, a 4-3 Nittany Lions win, and Penn State has won the last three against Princeton on its home court, in 2010, 2012 and 2015, since the Tigers' last win there in 1995. Constant De La Bassetiere is the lone player in the ITA individual rankings for either team, checking in at No. 94 on the singles list.
Penn State stands 8-6 coming into the match, and the Tigers will be the Nittany Lions' third Ivy League opponent of the season after a 4-2 loss at Cornell on Feb. 11 and a 4-2 loss at Penn last weekend. Both teams have beaten Buffalo and Temple, and the Tigers have a win over Cornell from the ECAC Championship last month, among opponents both teams have faced. Penn State will be Princeton's second Big Ten opponent of the season after Michigan State, which the Tigers beat 5-2 to open the season on Jan. 28 and which will head to Penn State Sunday.
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