After two wins in their first three Ivy League matches, the men's tennis team will take its act on the road — a long way on the road — when it travels to Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend as Princeton (8-9 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) try to keep pace with the league leaders.
Tomorrow the men will be in Cambridge to take on the first-place Crimson (12-6, 2-0). Harvard is coming off a rousing 6-1 win in Ithaca against Cornell, the only loss coming from Jonathan Chu at No. 1 singles.
Chu is 1-1 in league play singles after the loss and a three-set win over Columbia's No. 1 last weekend.
Last year, the Crimson came to Princeton and topped the Tigers, 4-3, behind wins at the top two singles positions.
All four Princeton points in that meet came from players returning this year.
Sophomore Darius Craton has competed twice and senior Daniel Friedman once at the Tigers' top singles position. Last year, Chu defeated Craton at that position. The doubles team of Craton and Friedman, though, topped the team of Chu and teammate Chris Chiou.
Saturday, Princeton will head up to the final frontier of Hanover, N.H. for a match with Dartmouth (6-9, 0-2), a team they cruised by in a 7-0 sweep in last year's home meeting.
In that match every Tiger singles player won in straight sets. The doubles team of Friedman and Craton lost their match, 8-6, but Princeton's other two doubles teams won to claim the best-of-three competition and earn the doubles point.
The Big Green is searching for its first win in Ivy play after a 7-0 loss to Cornell and a 4-3 loss to Columbia last weekend.
Dartmouth returns the doubles team of Jesse Paer and Borko Kereshi that took down Friedman and Craton a year ago.
David Webb, who is 0-2 in league play after a three-set loss against Columbia, leads the Big Green charge at No. 1 singles.
While the men cruise around the Northeast in a bus, the women will get to relax in the comforts of campus as they welcome two of the Ivy League's best — Harvard and Dartmouth — to Jadwin Gym for the weekend.
The Tigers (5-10, 1-2) first face Harvard (9-9, 2-0) on Friday.
Courtney Bergman and Eva Wang have each played one Ivy match at No. 1 singles for the Crimson, and neither has had trouble. Bergman is 1-0 after a 6-1, 6-1 walk, and Wang is 2-0, only losing seven of 31 games.
Freshman Darcy Robertson is 1-2 at No. 1 singles for Princeton after a tough three-set victory over Brown's top player last weekend.
The Tigers fell, 6-1, to Harvard in Cambridge last spring.
Ivy power Dartmouth (14-3, 2-0) visits Saturday, having just trounced hapless Cornell and Columbia last weekend.
Jayme Ahmed is 2-0 at No. 1 singles for the No. 70 Big Green.
Princeton will hope for a repeat of last year, in which the Tigers swept Dartmouth, 7-0, in their match in Hanover.
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