Fall tennis just doesn't seem right somehow.
Mention tennis in the Ivy League and it conjures up images of white short clad kids learning to play on country club courts in the spring and summer months.
But in order to get to that spring peak, the fall season can be essential for both the men's and women's teams at Princeton.
The high point of the fall season up to now came Sunday when senior Trevor Smith and junior Hendrik Chasse captured the doubles "A" championship at the Farnsworth Invitational.
Columbia's Oscar Chow took home the singles "A" championship. In the doubles finals, however, Smith and Chasse got the better of Chow and his fellow Lion Saikia.
Smith, after losing in the first round of the singles tournament 7-5, 6-3 to Andrew Rosenfeld of Yale won out in the consolation bracket.
Rosenfeld ultimately lost to Chow in the singles final, 6-4, 6-3.
The doubles bracket was contested under a one-set format with Chasse and Smith, the top seed, taking down the No. 2 pairing of Chow and Saikia in the final, 9-7.
The doubles victors were forced to knock off one of their own on the way to the title — Chasse/Smith took on the team of Gopstein and Plukas in the semifinals.
Smith faced a tough road to the consolation title. The senior was pushed to three sets in both his first consolation bracket match — facing elimination — and in the final.
Men's results — Farnsworth Invitational
Singles — first round
Singles — Quarterfinals
Singles — Semifinals
Singles — Final
Doubles — first round
Doubles — Quarterfinals
Doubles — Final
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