Princeton University Athletics
Tuesday, May 21
Orlando, Fla.
7:00 PM
Princeton University
vs
NCAA Doubles Tournament
Payton Holden and Ryan Seggerman will compete in the NCAA Doubles Tournament beginning Tuesday.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Holden and Seggerman Learn NCAA First-Round Opponent
May 19, 2019 | Men's Tennis
The fourth-ranked team in the nation will be the first opponent for Princeton's 34th-ranked Payton Holden and Ryan Seggerman, the NCAA announced Sunday when it unveiled the bracket for the 32-team NCAA Doubles Championship to begin Tuesday at the USTA complex in Orlando.
The match is set for after 7 p.m. and will be video streamed here. It will also be televised on the Tennis Channel. The complete bracket is available here.
Holden and Seggerman will open against UNC Asheville's Oli Nolan and Henry Patten, who are both seeded fourth in the tournament and ranked fourth by the ITA. Wichita State's Murkel Dellien and Marius Frosa, ranked 35th, or Oklahoma's Alexander Bakshi and Stefano Tsorotiotis, ranked 25th will be waiting in the second round for the winner of Princeton's match.
Holden and Seggerman played together only in the spring, earning a 7-3 record as a pair and 4-2 in Ivy matches, playing nine of the 10 times at the top spot. Ranked as high as 17th in the nation, Holden and Seggerman were 4-1 against ITA-ranked teams, getting two wins over Logan Weber and Andy Zhou of Harvard, who were ranked No. 33 and No. 37 when they met, as well as a win over No. 7 Charlie Broom and David Horneffer of Dartmouth, and a win over Columbia's 26th-ranked Jack Lin and William Matheson.
This will be Princeton's 10th appearance in the NCAA Doubles Tournament. The last was in 2017, when Alexander Day '17 and Luke Gamble '18 earned a bid, and Princeton's last win in the event was in 2001, when Kyle Kliegerman '01 and John Portlock '01 advanced to the round of 16. Princeton's deepest advance in the tournament came in its first appearance, when in 1978 Jay Lapidus '81 and Leif Shiras '81 won twice to make the quarterfinals before Stanford's John McEnroe and Bill Maze ended their run.
The match is set for after 7 p.m. and will be video streamed here. It will also be televised on the Tennis Channel. The complete bracket is available here.
Holden and Seggerman will open against UNC Asheville's Oli Nolan and Henry Patten, who are both seeded fourth in the tournament and ranked fourth by the ITA. Wichita State's Murkel Dellien and Marius Frosa, ranked 35th, or Oklahoma's Alexander Bakshi and Stefano Tsorotiotis, ranked 25th will be waiting in the second round for the winner of Princeton's match.
Holden and Seggerman played together only in the spring, earning a 7-3 record as a pair and 4-2 in Ivy matches, playing nine of the 10 times at the top spot. Ranked as high as 17th in the nation, Holden and Seggerman were 4-1 against ITA-ranked teams, getting two wins over Logan Weber and Andy Zhou of Harvard, who were ranked No. 33 and No. 37 when they met, as well as a win over No. 7 Charlie Broom and David Horneffer of Dartmouth, and a win over Columbia's 26th-ranked Jack Lin and William Matheson.
This will be Princeton's 10th appearance in the NCAA Doubles Tournament. The last was in 2017, when Alexander Day '17 and Luke Gamble '18 earned a bid, and Princeton's last win in the event was in 2001, when Kyle Kliegerman '01 and John Portlock '01 advanced to the round of 16. Princeton's deepest advance in the tournament came in its first appearance, when in 1978 Jay Lapidus '81 and Leif Shiras '81 won twice to make the quarterfinals before Stanford's John McEnroe and Bill Maze ended their run.
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