Shklover Triumphs Without Dropping A Game

HANOVER, N.H. - The first day of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship saw Yale fall 4-1 to Columbia. While sophomore Valerie Shklover claimed a victory, the Bulldogs could not come back after losing the doubles point.

Although Yale's No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams were defeated to secure the doubles point for Columbia, the No. 1 pair of senior Madeleine Hamilton and junior Tina Jiang played a tight match that was going toward a tiebreak, before ending unfinished at 6-5 in favor of Columbia.

Although the Bulldogs ceded three singles matches to give Columbia the win, a number of positives came from the day. Shklover played ruthlessly, as she comfortably won without dropping a game. Hamilton managed a comeback from her first set loss by claiming the second, before the match ended unfinished 6-1, 3-6, 1-0. Senior Ree Ree Li was also in the process of a comeback, as she lost the first set but broke in the second, before play was stopped with the scoreline at 7-5, 1-3.

Full results from Yale's match against Columbia can be found below.

The Bulldogs will now play Princeton in the ECAC Championship fifth-place match on Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

Report by Alice Yang '19, Yale Sports Publicity

Doubles

No. 1 -- Rima Asatrian/Alexandra Solovyev (Columbia) vs. Tina Jiang/Madeleine Hamilton (Yale) 6-5, unfinished

No. 2 -- Kanika Vaidya/Adi Milstein (Columbia) d. Ree Ree Li/Valerie Shklover (Yale) 6-3

No. 3 -- Star Makarome/Andrea Kevakian (Columbia) d. Caroline Lynch/Courtney Amos (Yale) 6-1

Singles

No. 1 -- Kanika Vaidya (Columbia) d. Tina Jiang (Yale) 6-3, 6-2

No. 2 -- Rima Asatrian (Columbia) vs. Madeleine Hamilton (Yale) 6-1, 3-6, 1-0, unfinished

No. 3 -- Star Makarome (Columbia) vs. Ree Ree Li (Yale) 7-5, 1-3, unfinished

No. 4 -- Alexandra Solovyev (Columbia) d. Sherry Li (Yale) 6-3, 6-3

No. 5 -- Andrea Kevakian (Columbia) d. Amy Yang (Yale) 6-2, 6-2

No. 6 -- Valerie Shklover (Yale) d. Vivian Cheng (Columbia) 6-0, 6-0