PRINCETON, N.J. – The No. 5 Yale men's tennis team saw its six-match winning streak snapped on Friday, falling to No. 4 Cornell, 4-3, in the ECAC Indoor Championship opener at Lenz Tennis Center.
Cornell got off to a fast start, securing the doubles point. The Bulldogs battled, as
Vignesh Gogineni,
Edward Liao and
Eric Li picked up wins in singles, but the Big Red also notched three wins to secure the victory.
Doubles
- Rodrigo Fernandes/Eric Verdes (Cornell) def. Gogineni/Liao (Yale) 6-4
- Jason Shuler/Dylan Tsoi (Yale) def. No. 66 Rushil Khosla/Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Cornell) 6-2
- No. 30 Felipe Pinzon/Petar Teodorovic (Cornell) def. Li/Ethan Chung (Yale) 6-3
Singles
- No. 48 Gogineni (Yale) def. No. 40 Fernandes (Cornell) 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Liao (Yale) def. Verdes (Cornell) 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Teodorovic (Cornell) def. Shuler (Yale) 6-3, 6-4
- Pinzon (Cornell) def. Jim Ji (Yale) 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Senthil Kumar (Cornell) def. Chung (Yale) 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
- Li (Yale) def. Nathan Gold (Cornell) 6-3, 6-3
Up next
Yale will face No. 8 Brown in the consolation bracket on day two of the championship on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 9 a.m.
