Poling Advances, All-Tiger Doubles Semifinal Set

Sunday, October 20

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Princeton University

ITA Northeast Regional

Princeton University men's tennis action, Princeton, NJ, September 20, 2019.

Karl Poling advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Northeast Regional's singles draw.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

October 20, 2019 | Men's Tennis

Karl Poling, the ITA 73rd-ranked player in the nation, won twice at the ITA Northeast Regional at Penn Sunday to make Monday's quarterfinals, and an all-Princeton semifinal is set.

Poling, the draw's second seed, will face Harvard's seventh-seeded Ronan Jachuck in Monday's quarters.

Both Poling and doubles partner Damian Rodriguez and the ITA 15th-ranked doubles pair of Ryan Seggerman and Payton Holden won their quarterfinal matches Sunday to advance to the same semifinal Monday. While Holden and Seggerman hold the draw's second seed, the third seed, Vladislav Melnic and Eero Vasa of Cornell, fell in the round of 16 to Penn's Aditya Gupta and Harsh Parikh. Poling and Rodriguez then beat Gupta and Parikh in the quarters.

After being down 0-4, Rodriguez/Poling win 8 games in a row to move on to the Doubles Semifinals! Incredible performance pic.twitter.com/f34E9PLswn
— Princeton Men's Tennis (@ptonmenstennis) October 20, 2019

Updated draws are available via CourtHive here, and a PDF of the updated draws and Monday's schedule is available here. Monday's play will begin at 9:30 a.m. with singles first, followed by doubles.

Singles
Round of 32
(105) Ryan Seggerman (Princeton) def. Pete Siozios (Boston U), 6-4, ret.
Will Peters (Princeton) def. (56) Adam Ambrozy (Columbia), 7-5, 6-1
Jason Hildebrandt (Penn) def. Damian Rodriguez (Princeton), 6-1, 6-3
(77) Jackie Tang (Columbia) def. Davey Roberts (Princeton), 6-3, 6-4
(73) Karl Poling (Princeton) def. David Horneffer (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-4

Round of 16
Henry von der Schulenburg (Harvard) def. (105) Seggerman (Princeton), 6-2, 7-5
Kevin Zhu (Penn) def. Peters (Princeton), 6-4, 0-6, 6-0
(73) Poling (Princeton) def. Villhelm Fridell (Buffalo), 6-3, 6-4

Doubles
Quarterfinals
Adam Ambrozy/Rian Pandole (Columbia) def. Justin Barki/Bill Duo (Princeton), 8-4
Karl Poling/Damian Rodriguez (Princeton) def. Aditya Gupta/Harsh Parikh (Penn), 8-4
(15) Payton Holden/Ryan Seggerman (Princeton) def. Alex Kotzen/Jason Lui (Columbia), 8-5

Monday
Singles: Quarterfinals
(73) Poling (Princeton) vs. Ronan Jachuck (Harvard)

Doubles: Semifinals
(15) Holden/Seggerman (Princeton) vs. Poling/Rodriguez (Princeton)