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Tigers Win Top-40 Battle over Columbia, Stay Perfect in Ivy
April 12, 2019 | Women's Tennis
Make it 11 Ivy League wins in a row for the Princeton women's tennis team and a win over a fellow ITA top-40 team as the 39th-ranked Tigers used a doubles-point win and victories in three of the first four matches off court to secure a 4-1 win at 37th-ranked Columbia Friday afternoon.
Nathalie Rodilosso and Stephanie Schrage had a winner on court three in doubles and Nicole Kalhorn and Brianna Shvets won on court one to get the day's first point, and after Columbia won on court six to start singles play, Clare McKee, Shvets and Joyce won successive matches to wrap up the win for the Tigers.
The Tigers, now 15-4 on the spring season, 4-0 in the Ivy and winners of six in a row overall after completing a perfect road swing through the league, will play at home for the first time on the Ivy season when Cornell comes to campus for a 1 p.m. start Sunday.
#39 Princeton 4, #37 Columbia 1
Doubles
1. Kalhorn/Shvets (Princeton) def. Bhan/Paulina Ferrari (Columbia), 7-5
2. Kevakian/Wan (Columbia) vs. Joyce/McKee (Princeton), 5-5, unfinished
3. Rodilosso/Schrage (Princeton) def. Kerr/Sakar (Columbia), 6-0
Singles
1. Jennifer Kerr (Columbia) vs. Stephanie Schrage (Princeton) 6-2, 1-6, 3-0, unfinished
2. Brianna Shvets (Princeton) def. Akanksha Bhan (Columbia) 6-4, 6-4
3. Grace Joyce (Princeton) def. Christie Wan (Columbia) 7-5, 6-2
4. Clare McKee (Princeton) def. Melissa Sakar (Columbia), 6-3, 6-2
5. Andrea Kevakian (Columbia) vs. Nicole Kalhorn (Princeton), 6-3, 5-4, unfinished
6. Ali Pollack (Columbia) def. Nathalie Rodilosso (Princeton). 6-1, 6-3
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1); Singles (6,4,2,3)
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