NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's tennis team suffered its first Ivy League loss of the spring, falling to Penn 4-1 at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.
Vivian Cheng earned the Bulldogs' point by posting a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 6 singles.
Chelsea Kung, who upset Princeton's Daria Frayman, the nation's No. 1 ranked player, on Saturday, was in a close match at No. 1. She split the first two sets with Penn's Iuliia Bryzgalova before the third set was stopped with the score 1-1.
In doubles, the Yale duo of
Mirabelle Brettkelly and
Rhea Shrivastava won 7-5 at No. 3. The Quakers, though, captured the other two doubles matches.
Yale is back in action next Saturday at Cornell.
Penn 4, Yale 1
Doubles
1. Marija Curnic/Iuliia Bryzgalova (Penn) def.
Chelsea Kung/
Jessie Gong (Yale) 6-4
2. Sabine Rutlauka/Eileen Wang (Penn) def.
Kathy Wang/
Caroline Dunleavy (Yale) 6-1
3.
Mirabelle Brettkelly/
Rhea Shrivastava (Yale) def. Amanda Chan/Ekaterina Vinnik (Penn) 7-5
Singles
1.
Chelsea Kung (Yale) vs. Iuliia Bryzgalova (Penn) 6-4, 2-6, 1-1 DNF
2. Sabine Rutlauka (Penn) def.
Caroline Dunleavy (Yale) 6-1, 6-2
3. Marija Curnic (Penn) def.
Mirabelle Brettkelly (Yale) 6-2, 6-2
4. Gavriella Smith (Penn) def.
Jessie Gong (Yale) 6-0, 6-4
5.
Rhea Shrivastava (Yale) vs. Amanda Chan (Penn) 6-1, 2-6, 3-1 DNF
6.
Vivian Cheng (Yale) def. Saige Roshkoff (Penn) 6-3, 6-2
