HANOVER, N.H. – The men's tennis team's defense of the ECAC Indoor Championships came to a close Saturday night in the semifinals with a 4-0 loss to top-seeded Harvard at Dartmouth's Boss Tennis Center.
The Big Red got a doubles victory from freshman
Bernardo Casares Rosa and sophomore
Stefan Vinti at the No. 3 position, but the Crimson had already clinched the opening point with 6-3 victories at both No. 1 and No. 2.
All three completed singles matches wrapped up within a four-minute span, spelling a sudden end to the match. Junior
Sam Fleck won the first set of his No. 3 match in a tiebreaker.
Cornell (5-3), which is seeded fourth and ranked 62
nd in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, will play third-seeded Dartmouth at 11 a.m. Monday in the third-place match. The Big Green (8-2) is ranked 63
rd.
#25 HARVARD 4, #62 CORNELL 0
ECAC Indoor Championships semifinal; at Hanover, N.H.
Doubles
1. Denis Nguyen/Casey MacMaster (H) def. #34
Sam Fleck/
Chris Vrabel, 6-3
2. Nicky Hu/Brian Yeung (H) def.
Jason Luu/
Quoc-Daniel Nguyen, 6-3
3.
Bernardo Casares Rosa/
Stefan Vinti (C) def. Christo Schultz/Conor Haughey (H), 6-4
Singles
1. D. Nguyen (H) def. Vinti, 6-1, 6-3
2. Shaun Chaudhuri (H) vs. Casares Rosa, unfinished (6-3, 5-1)
3. Fleck (C) vs. Yeung, unfinished (6-5(2), 1-2)
4. Sebastian Beltrame (H) def. Luu, 6-2, 6-5(3)
5. Andrew Ball (H) def. Vrabel, 6-2, 6-5(5)
6. Hu (H) vs. Q-D Nguyen, unfinished (6-4, 5-3)
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3), Singles (1,4,5)
Records: Cornell 5-3, Harvard 4-2
