One week after competing at the Penn Invitational, the men’s tennis team returned to Princeton at the Lenz Tennis Center to compete in the Ivy Plus Tournament as it hosted 21 other tennis teams in the three-day tournament. The Ivy Plus Tournament was the Tigers’ first home tournament of the season and the Tigers looked to click into gear after a start-stop tournament in Philadelphia.
The players were split into many different draws, with junior Tom Colautti headlining the team in the Tiger Draw. Colautti was recently ranked no. 118 in the nation in the ITA ranking and he took on some of the tournament’s toughest opponents in his draw. In a successful Friday for the team, the Tigers saw Colautti win both his games along with sophomores Luke Gamble and Kial Kaiser. The other players had mixed results, and so did the doubles teams.
By the final day of the tournament, only Gamble and Colautti were within grasp of winning their respective titles. Gamble had to face Igor Smelyanski from Tennessee in the Pagoda Draw, while Colautti would line up against Dartmouth’s Ciro Ricciardi in the Tiger Draw. Ricciardi had earlier defeated top seed Nick Bybel from Bucknell.
However, success for both players was not possible as Gamble dropped his match against Smelyanski in straight sets, losing 2-6, 5-7 against his opponent, but Colautti did manage to triumph against his Dartmouth foe as he beat Ricciardi 7-5, 6-4. This victory is bound to do wonders to Colautti’s confidence as he hopes to lead the Tigers to a great fall season. Also successful on Sunday were junior Josh Yablon and senior Mohamed El Tonbari, who won the consolation finals for their draws as well, both in dominant fashion as neither of them dropped a set.
This weekend, the men’s tennis team will travel to St. Helena, Calif. to compete at the Porsche Napa Valley Classic from Friday to Sunday, while the women’s team will open its season at home as it hosts the Princeton Invitational during the same time period at the Lenz Tennis Center.
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