After defeating five doubles pairings across three days, Bartlett and Marable reached the doubles finals, where they faced Yale’s Vicky Brook and Lindsay Clark. Brook and Clark had already defeated the other Princeton doubles team, sophomore Monica Chow and junior Rachel Saiontz, en route to the finals. They remained a thorn in the Tigers’ side, topping Bartlett and Marable 8-4 on Tuesday afternoon.
Bartlett, who is also a staff writer for The Daily Princetonian, said in an e-mail that although this weekend’s results were not optimal, they held promise for the rest of the season. “Taylor and I played well together in doubles this weekend against some pairings we had never seen before, but unfortunately we came up a little short in the finals,” she said. “I know we’re both already looking forward to a rematch against the Yale pair, who we beat last Ivy season. Their lobs and short angles were very effective against us today, but hopefully the next time we play them we’ll be better prepared for that style of play.”
The loss brought an end to Princeton’s tournament run, which began Friday. Freshman Katherine Flanigan opened the tournament in the singles qualifying draw, battling her way into the main draw by defeating Manuela Leme of Fairleigh Dickinson University 6-4, 6-0 and Nikita Austin of St. John’s University 7-5, 6-3.
Unfortunately for Princeton, Flanigan was defeated by Melissa Matsuoka of Dartmouth on Saturday in a hard-fought match, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.
The rest of the Tigers had a string of successes in the doubles main draw. Bartlett and Marable defeated Penn’s duo of Daniela DePaoli and Stephanie Do 8-4 and then handily defeated Kristen Chen and Linnea Enoh-Janssen from St. Peters University 8-0. This placed Bartlett and Marable in the Round of 16 heading into Sunday’s matches.
Their success was matched by that of their teammates. Chow and Saiontz defeated Christine Ordway and Ryan Young of Cornell 8-3 before dominating Lauren Bates and Emma Leibowicz of Binghamton 8-1.
All of the Tigers other than Flanigan had byes for the first round of the singles main draw, and they began their singles tournaments the next day.
Bartlett’s roll through the tournament continued on Sunday. She advanced to the Round of 16 with two wins in the singles main draw, defeating Alexa Ely from Penn 6-3, 6-2 and then crushing Hofstra’s Elena Ivanova 6-0, 6-2. She picked up her third win of the day when she and Marable defeated Brown’s pair, Jessica Harrow and Misia Krasowski, 8-4.
The rest of the Tigers had less success in the singles draw. Marable won her initial match against Monica Yajima of Fairfield 6-4, 6-2 but was then defeated by Stefanie Nunic from Boston University 6-3, 6-2. Chow followed a similar pattern, beating Ryan Young of Cornell 6-0, 6-2 before falling to Yale’s Blair Seideman 7-5, 6-1. Saiontz failed to advance from her first match, as she fell to Boston University’s Vivin Laszloffy 6-1, 7-5.
Saiontz and Chow fell to Brook and Clark 8-1 in the doubles bracket, leaving Bartlett to represent the Tigers in the singles draw and Barlett and Marable in the doubles draw for Monday’s matches.
Bartlett’s singles run came to a close Monday morning, as she was defeated by Boston College’s Veronica Corning 7-6(6), 6-2.
In doubles, Bartlett and Marable beat Cornell’s team of twins, Kelly and Shannon Comolli, 8-4 before felling Columbia’s Nicole Bartnik and Bianca Sanon 8-3 to advance to the finals.
“Personally I was a little bit disappointed by my performance this weekend,” Bartlett said. “But I’m going to do my best to turn this weekend’s disappointment into next weekend’s success by continuing to work hard at practice.”
The Tigers continue their fall campaign in the Kitty Harrison Invitational at the University of North Carolina the weekend of Nov. 5–7.
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