Women's Tennis

The men’s tennis team ended its regular season with two matches over the weekend. The No. 48 Tigers (16-6 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) faced No. 51 Cornell, (14-8, 3-4) on Friday in Ithaca, winning in a solid 5-2 victory. On Princeton's Senior Day on Sunday, the Tigers faced No. 47 Columbia (15-7, 5-2), losing in a close 4-3 battle. The No. 73 women (12-7, 4-3) beat Cornell (14-4, 3-4) with the same score as the men, 5-2, on Friday, but also fell to No. 65 Columbia (12-5, 6-1) 7-0 on Sunday.

The men’s tennis team was undefeated in Ivy League play coming into this weekend’s series against Harvard, with wins over Penn, Yale and Brown. Though it was closer than the final score shows, No. 19 Harvard (15-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) handed the Tigers (15-5, 4-1) their first Ivy loss of the season, but Princeton rebounded on Sunday to win 5-2 over Dartmouth. The women (11-6, 3-2) defeated Harvard (10-6, 2-2) with a late-game comeback and lost a close game, 3-4, against Dartmouth.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams faced two more Ivy League opponents this weekend playing Yale and Brown. The No. 51 men’s team (14-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) went undefeated, taking down No. 54 Yale 5-2 and Brown 4-3 in a very close match, while the No. 65 women (10-5, 2-1) split their weekend, losing to Yale and beating Brown. 

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams head into the spring season with high hopes and carry ambitions of winning the Ivy League crown and taking their talents to the national stage at the NCAA Championships in May. The men are looking to bounce back from a disappointing 12-12 season, while the women are looking to take their game to the next level by usurping the two-time defending champion Yale Bulldogs.

Following a 4-3 conference finish last spring in which it was in contention for the Ivy League championship during the final weekend of play, the men’s tennis team entered this year looking to build off the success of last year’s strong freshman class and challenge again for the league title. The women’s team faced a different challenge, as it looked to follow up a dominating 7-0 Ivy League championship season last spring.