Two-Site Saturday for Tigers

Saturday, October 5

Evanston, Ill.

Princeton University

Wildcat Invitational

Princeton University women's tennis action Princeton, NJ, September 13 2019.

Brianna Shvets beat an ITA-ranked opponent in the prequalifying singles draw.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

October 05, 2019 | Women's Tennis

Play began at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., and continued at the Wildcat Invitational at Northwestern for the Princeton women's tennis team.

Updated draws from the Northwestern tournament can be found here (PDF), the ITA prequalifying singles bracket can be found here (PDF), and the prequalifying consolation bracket can be found here (PDF).

Zoe Howard and Brianna Shvets each won twice in the ITA prequalifying draw, setting up a Sunday morning (8 a.m. CT/9 a.m. ET) match for 13th-seeded Howard against top-seeded Jessica Livianu of St. John's and for unseeded Shvets against another 13th-seeded player, Aleksa Cventicanin of TCU. One of Shvets' Saturday wins came against an ITA-ranked player in LSU's 114th-ranked Taylor Bridges. Stephanie Schrage and Grace Joyce will play consolation matches after dropping their first-round matches.

At Northwestern, the Princeton doubles team of Tiffany Chen and Maia Sung and the mixed-school doubles team of Princeton's Jayme Leschly and Kentucky's Brianna Tulloch each won an opening-round doubles match before a quarterfinal defeat. Play at Northwestern will close Sunday with both singles and doubles.

ITA All-American Championships
Prequalifying Singles
First Round
Zoe Howard (Princeton) def. Priya Niezgoda (Rice), 6-1, 6-4
Malkia Ngounoue (Kansas) def. (107) Stephanie Schrage (Princeton), 6-4, 6-4
Brianna Shvets (Princeton) def. Aran Teixida Garcia (Memphis), 6-2, 6-0
Selini Oyunc (Auburn) def. Grace Joyce (Princeton), 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
Second Round
Howard (Princeton) def. Alisa Soloveva (Winthrop), 6-1, 6-0
Shvets (Princeton) def. (114) Taylor Bridges (LSU), 7-5, 6-2

Wildcat Invitational
Doubles
First Round
Tiffany Chen/Maia Sung (Princeton) def. Caroline Pozo/Vanessa Streng (Northwestern), 11-9
Brianna Tulloch (Kentucky)/Jayme Leschly (Princeton) def. Renee Ren/Caitie Sullivan (Columbia), no score
Quarterfinals
Lesley Foe/Natalija Popovic (Marquette) def. Chen/Sung (Princeton), 6-3
Daria Afanasyeva/Natalia Nikolopoulou (James Madison) def. Tulloch (Kentucky)/Leschly (Princeton), 6-2