Bulldogs Fall 4-0 to Tigers in Fifth-Place Match

HANOVER, N.H. - The Yale women's tennis team was defeated by Princeton in the fifth-place match of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship on Sunday. Princeton managed four singles wins to secure a 4-0 victory. Doubles matches were not contested.

Many of Yale's players competed in close match-ups. Junior Sherry Li was pushed to three sets, as she won her first set 6-2 before her opponent took the second 6-3 and went on to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Senior captain Ree Ree Li and sophomore Elizabeth Zordani also played three set matches, but both were left unfinished. Li and her opponent each claimed a set 6-3 with the match ending in the third set at 3-2 in Li's favor. Zordani narrowly lost the first set 7-6(3) in the tiebreak but managed to come back in the second, winning it 6-2 to push the match to the third set.

Senior Madeleine Hamilton and sophomore Valerie Shklover also played sets that were determined by tiebreaks. While Hamilton was defeated in the first set 6-4, she narrowly lost the second in the tiebreak to give the win to Princeton 6-4, 7-6(6). Shklover showed grit in the first set tiebreaker but could not overcome her opponent, as the match ended 7-6(7), 6-2 in Princeton's favor.

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

The Bulldogs will next play Syracuse at home on Friday at 12:00 p.m.

Report by Alice Yang '19, Yale Sports Publicity

Doubles: not contested

Singles

No. 1 -- Amanda Muliawan (Princeton) d. Madeleine Hamilton (Yale) 6-4, 7-6(6)

No. 2 -- No. 87 Katrine Steffensen (Princeton) d. Tina Jiang (Yale)  6-3, 6-2

No. 3 -- Ree Ree Li (Yale) vs. Nicole Kalhorn (Princeton) 6-3, 3-6, 3-2

No. 4 -- Sivan Krems (Princeton) d. Sherry Li (Yale) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2

No. 5 -- Caroline Joyce (Princeton) d. Valerie Shklover (Yale) 7-6(7), 6-2

No. 6 -- Emily Hahn (Princeton) vs. Elizabeth Zordani (Yale) 7-6(3), 2-6, 4-0

Order of finish: Doubles: not contested; Singles: 2,5,4,1